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, ...

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 ...