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Alstom's hydrogen-powered trains enter into passenger service in Germany

Sep 17, 2018 10:36 AM

Alstom's hydrogen-powered trains enter into passenger service in lower Saxony, Germany.

The trains are equipped with fuel cells that convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity. The low-noise, zero-emission trains can travel up to 140 kilometers/hour.

The trains will be operated on nearly 100 kms of line and they will run between Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervörde and Buxtehude in Germany.

The trains will be fuelled at a mobile hydrogen filling station and Hydrogen will be pumped into the trains from a 40-foot-high steel container next to the tracks at Bremervörde station.

The trains can run throughout the network, the whole day with a single tank; total range of 1,000 kms. Alstom will deliver 14 more of these trains by 2021

First Published:Sept 17, 2018 7:36 PM IST

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