Most of the freight locomotives here in America use diesel-electric technology. They have gigantic diesel engines that act as generators for the electric motors that do the heavy lifting to get ...

Trains powered by electricity rather than diesel fuel are not scheduled to begin rolling on the Fairmount Line for years, but public officials are so excited about the now-concrete plans for more ...

Tesla will replace the diesel-electric trains used to shuttle employees to its Berlin factory with new battery-electric models from this summer. The U.S. electric vehicle maker's gigafactory ...

After a multiyear journey, Caltrain’s diesel engines are officially retired from the Bay Area corridor, replaced by a fully electric fleet, along with a new train schedule.

A new long-awaited fleet of nearly 70 battery and electric trains has been announced for ScotRail which will benefit one ...

Most of Wellington’s metro trains use electricity to carry us backwards and forwards to our work, to town, to see our friends and go to a movie. Combined with our Auckland metro friends, that adds up ...

The plan would start to bring the T up to speed with commuter rail systems around the United States that have long had electric trains instead of diesel trains.