Switzerland just buried solar panels under a live train track to get clean energy

A Swiss startup, Sun-Ways, has installed solar panels between railway tracks in western Switzerland. This innovative project ...
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Trains in Switzerland are now running over solar panels in a first-of-its-kind test

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

American Solar Rail: More Than a Concept

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, ...
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French railway operator tests solar on train tracks

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 ...