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 ...

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 ...