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 ...

30 years after its retirement, the Istanbul Electric Tram and Tunnel Company replicated the veteran trolley which has come back into operation this week. The trolleybus has been manufactured in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This web site is devoted "transit's step child": the electric trolleybus. Our aim is to provide a link to every known trolleybus site on the web. Additionally we provide many photos as well. Some ...

Berlin (dpa) - The trolleybus is considered by many to be clunky technology from the past. But thanks to technical innovation, these so-called silent servants are staging a comeback as some countries ...

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