Alstom's hydrogen-powered passenger train has been licensed in Germany Alstom's hydrogen-powered passenger train has been licensed in, Alstom's hydrogen-powered passenger train has been licensed in, a highly polluting fuel, of regional transport.
The German state of Lower Saxony ordered 14 Coradia iLint models from Alstom, according to the website of the company based in Saint-Ouen, in France. Trains can transport 300 passengers, reach speeds of up to 140 kilometers per hour and run about 800 kilometers with the tank full of hydrogen.
Alstom has provisional orders for more 39 trains from three other german states, and United Kingdom, Denmark and the Netherlands also show interest in trains. Germany is buying the units to replace diesel in regional services, segment where electrification is too expensive or impractical, informed the government this week.
Trains are “more expensive to buy than diesel models, but they are competitive in terms of life cycle costs as a whole", disse a porta-voz Isabelle Tourancheau-Grigoriev, by phone, from France, on Friday. “And they're much better for the environment.”
Coradia iLint uses fuel cells that combine hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, which is stored in lithium ion batteries in the train chassis.. Trains emit water and steam as exhaust products.
Near 60 percent of Germany's national rail system is electrified, according to the national public railway company Deutsche Bahn. Chancellor Angela Merkel's new coalition plans to increase that share to 70 percent up to 2025.
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