The battery-electric train was developed with a $22.6 million grant from the California Air Resource Board that was awarded to Wabtec, BNSF Railway, and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution ...

Battery-electric power is commonplace in cars and trucks and is being tested in planes, helicopters, and container ships.Now, battery power is coming to trains, in place of the diesel-fueled ...

In the U.S., GE Transportation is working on a battery-electric locomotive, in partnership with BNSF, with a heavy-duty freight-train approach—packing in more than 2,400 kilowatt-hours and ...

A battery-electric train works great in a rail yard, said Rahn, but he doesn’t think we’re quite at the point where they could be used to travel long distances.

The new train, known as the FLXdrive battery-electric locomotive, completed a successful trial run in California earlier this year, traveling for three months and 13,000 miles between Barstow and ...

World’s first electric ‘Infinity Train’ recharges its batteries using gravity. Fortescue CEO says 2.8km-long train will be ‘world’s most efficient battery-electric locomotive’ ...

The use of battery-operated train technology on the LIRR has been put on the back burner — for now. The revolutionary idea came with too high a price tag, among other issues.

The EMD Joule from Progress Rail is an electric train that has 3,000 horsepower and can run 24 hours on a single charge. The train’s battery recovers energy reserves through a process called ...

Train travel in the U.K., an already greener alternative to travel by plane or car, is en route to becoming even more sustainable. A trial run for a battery-powered train has exceeded expectations ...

Norfolk Southern Railway No. 999 is an all-electric, battery-powered train. New research is reversing the aging of its lead-acid batteries. Michael Bezilla / Penn State ...

Bombardier Transportation, however, plans to address this with battery-electric trains in a program it's testing out in Germany, it announced on Wednesday.

BELGIUM: National passenger operator SNCB has reconfirmed its selection of CAF for the AM30 contract to supply electric and ...