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 ...

About one-fifth of all King County Metro Transit rides are made on an electric bus, powered by a nonpolluting trolley wire overhead. But the agency hasn’t purchased a new trolleybus since 1979. Since ...

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 ...

PRAGUE – Authorities say a head-on collision between a streetcar and a trolleybus in the Czech Republic's second-largest city has injured up to 40 people. Firefighters said the crash on a busy ...

The Bucharest city administration has announced the purchase of 22 new trolleybuses, which, thanks to their battery systems, ...

A trolleybus rides from the Crimea's main city Simferopol to the Black Sea coastal resort of Yalta, on March 28, 2014 Almost every day for the past 30 years through Crimea's turbulent recent history, ...

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 ...

The German technology company Kiepe Electric has sold its business unit for electric systems for trolleybuses to the Swiss bus manufacturer Hess. Kiepe now ...

A transport overhead contact system was damaged as a result of a Russian attack on Kherson on the night of 14-15 January, which caused the temporary suspension of the trolleybus service, but this has ...

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 ...

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 ...