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Electric Rail

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News, insights and analysis regarding electrified rail in Canada.

From Lac-Mégantic to Lytton: Can Canada improve rail safety with zero-emission and autonomous tech?

Ten years on from Lac-Mégantic, Electric Autonomy looks at the rail industry’s safety and sustainability record in Canada

Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, Electric Rail, Hydrogen & Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Emma Jarratt
September 23, 2023
16 minute read

All aboard North America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train

Tourists can catch a ride on the hydrogen fuel cell-powered train during a four-month demonstration project between Quebec City and Baie-Saint-Paul. But Canada has the capacity for more zero-emission trains

Electric Rail, Hydrogen & Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Quebec

Mehanaz Yakub
July 11, 2023
4 minute read

Zero emissions bus in motion on background nature

Wanted: a federal strategy for zero-emission transit, coach, rail

Canada needs an industrial strategy and a new federal-provincial policy implementation process to accelerate the transition to zero-emission passenger transit, writes CUTRIC’s Josipa Petrunic

Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, Electric Rail, Hydrogen & Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Josipa Petrunic
January 6, 2023
5 minute read

conceptual image of transpod vessel on tracks

Is an electric passenger hyperloop between Calgary and Edmonton in Canada’s future?

TransPod, a Toronto startup, says its technology — unveiled last month — could shuttle commuters between the two cities in just 45 minutes in FluxJet vehicles capable of carrying up to 50 passengers at up to 1,000 km/h

Alberta, Calgary, Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, Edmonton, Electric Rail, Electric Vehicles Canada

Mehanaz Yakub
August 8, 2022
5 minute read

CP and CN set sights on putting first zero-emission locomotives into operation

After both companies announced their first forays into the market last year — CP choosing hydrogen fuel cell, CN buying battery-electric — they are now readying plans to put their pilots into service in late 2022 and 2023

Commercial Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles, Electric Rail, Electric Vehicles Canada, Hydrogen & Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Kerry Banks
March 2, 2022
5 minute read

Concept image of future of electrified rail

Opinion

Technology has the power to accelerate rail mobility in Canada

Canada’s railways could present the ideal environment for utilizing hydrogen fuel cell technology as companies look to cover long distances and weather harsh conditions at faster speeds

Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), Electric Rail, Hydrogen & Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Josipa Petrunic
February 26, 2021
5 minute read

Sponsor Content

Canada’s opportunity to show rail innovation leadership

Canada is a vast, expansive, beautiful country. To traverse it requires rail like none other. But low-cost high-frequency passenger rail has eluded most Canadians for decades. It’s time for change.

Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), Electric Rail

Presented by CUTRIC
November 18, 2020
2 minute read