The world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger trains are here.
Four years after launching a two-year operational trial run in Germany, several Coradia iLint hydrogen fuel-cell trains have started carrying passengers on a 100% hydrogen track in Lower Saxony.
The passenger service trial began in September 2018 and lasted almost two years. It involved successfully running two pre-series Coradia iLint hydrogen fuel-cell trains over an existing route run by Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser (EVB).
The project is officially in public service and has expanded to 14 hydrogen-powered passenger trains produced by Alstom engineers in the traction systems plant in Tarbes, France, and the regional trains facility in Salzgitter, Germany. The Lower Saxony Ministry of Transport purchased the trains and are now under the ownership of the state-run Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft…
World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Trains Start Carrying Passengers in Germany
