Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With no heavy battery, no emissions, no time wasted recharging, trolleybuses are powered entirely by overhead electric wires. At a ...

The 1,970 rail, trolleybus, and cable car workers who make Mexico City run could go out on strike as soon as March 13. Their ...

Ludmilla Vasilieva, the driver for the 4:05 p.m. trolleybus, stared impatiently at two foreign tourists who were standing at the bus stop in Yalta, Crimea, contemplating their next move. Since the ...

To get to Yalta, one group of German tourists decide to travel nearly 100 kilometers across the mountains and along the sea by trolleybus instead of taking a taxi. Every 20 minutes, trolleybus 52 ...

The Russians attacked a trolleybus depot in the Slobidskyi district in Kharkiv on the night of 29-30 May. Eighteen trolleybuses and 33 residential buildings were damaged and two employees were injured ...

Thanks to R. Hill, photographer of the Chicago photo, and to Ken Josephson, computer manipulation of both pictures. The drawing on the left is from a Westinghouse Corp. ad circa 1950. The first ...

A bygone era of transport in Belfast has been brought to life in a new book about the city's trolleybuses. The book features many of the city's well-known roads and streets from the 1930s through to ...

For transport enthusiast Philip Thomas, the final demise of the trolleybus in Derby was marked with a week-long photographic odyssey. He recalled: “On Sunday, September 3, I had a tour of all the ...

A forgotten map has revealed what London boroughs used to have a trolleybus and tram service. Electric vehicles might feel ...

They were the original electric buses but 50 years ago today saw the plug pulled on the last trolleybus in Wales. Environmentally friendly and cheap, they finally succumbed to car ownership and fossil ...

In December, London mayor Sadiq Khan declared a climate emergency at the unanimous request of the London assembly. The assembly calls on Khan to do “an urgent updating of his carbon reduction targets ...