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Alstom and Stockholm-based design and technology company STILFOLD have announced a partnershipĀ to explore how STILFOLD’s origami-inspired manufacturing technology, dubbed āindustrial origamiā could be used to build trains in…
Alstom and Stockholm-based design and technology company STILFOLD have announced a partnershipĀ to explore how STILFOLD’s origami-inspired manufacturing technology, dubbed āindustrial origamiā could be used to build trains in…
DB Group subsidiary DB Energie and the Karlsruhe-based energy company EnBW Energie Baden-WĆ¼rttemberg AG have concluded a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for green electricity. This long-term supply contract…
German regional transport authority LNVG, which put the world’s first hydrogen trains into passenger service, will replace its remaining diesel fleet with battery trains, the state of Lower…
Railway executives at Network Rail, the government-administered infrastructure agency responsible for operating 20,000 miles of train track across Britain, have come under scrutiny for their astonishing choice to…
Comparing prices of train versus plane tickets on 112 routes in Europe, the results of a Greenpeace analysis confirm what many people think: the train is often more…
Pledge, a UK-based climate-tech company has launched an open-access freight emissions calculator. The free-to-use calculator provides accredited calculations, offering freight forwarders valuable insights into how they can assist…
Taking a night train can be cheaper than taking a flight, new research by on-profit UK consumer organisation Which? has found. This applies mostly to groups or families.…
While already the most sustainable mode of transport, it is still a challenge to move rail to net zero emissions, sees the European Association of Rail Rolling Stock…
As a manufacturer of both hydrogen and a battery trains, of course Siemens Mobility sees both technologies as good alternatives to replace diesel operations in rail. To date,…
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has inaugurated a new solar energy facility in the northern federal state of Schleswig-Holstein along with partner Enerparc. Solar energy from the site is fed…
Experts of the Technical University of Dresden and the Institut fĆ¼r Bahntechnik have examined the energy, technical and operational constraints that need to be taken into account for…
Eighty per cent of the money from the CO2 surcharge of the German truck toll will from 2024 onwards go to railway investments, instead of road. This decision…
Rail is already the least emissions-intensive mode of transport, but the European goal is to get to net zero by 2050. How can railways get to this goal?
In a month from today, the Rail Infra Forum takes place, where everything regarding sustainable alternatives for diesel operations in rail takes central stage, including the necessary infrastructure…
Regional German operator Hessische Landesbahn has ordered three battery trains from Siemens Mobility for a railway pilot project in Upper and Lower Westerwald. The routes have ādemanding gradientsā…