Courtesy Caltrain. Caltrain leaders announced Thursday that the transit agency has received money to purchase and pilot a bi-level dual electric and battery-powered train, the country’s first.

Hitachi engineers tell the BBC, though, that it has done extensive testing on the batteries to ensure passengers would be ...

GERMANY: DB Regio has formally awarded Stadler an order to supply 19 Flirt battery-electric multiple-units to help ...

The goal is to develop an electric battery-powered train, with suitable charging stations, that can work on this side of the Atlantic. Stadler US CEO Martin Ritter said unlike Utah’s TRAX system ...