A train line in western Switzerland now carries two kinds of traffic: passengers above, and sunlight below. On a 100-meter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SNCF, the national railway company of France, is exploring the use of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules on railway tracks. The ...

In the past few years, the railway industry has been willing to at least consider technologies once thought to be unusual or unconventional—autonomous or semi-autonomous freight and passenger trains, ...

American Solar Rail (ASR), developer of the innovative Railway Transportation System patent enabling in-transit battery recharging and continuous-motion passenger exchange, has won the 2025 Railway ...

Sun-Ways, a Swiss startup developing PV systems for railway tracks, has signed a collaboration agreement with SNCF, making the French rail operator a partner in a pilot project in Buttes, in the ...