| Developers: | Alstom (formerly GEC-Alsthom) |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | August 2022 |
| Branches: | Transport |
2022: Started transportation
At the end of August 2022, in Germany, Coradia iLint hydrogen trains developed by Alstom began carrying the first hydrogen-fueled passengers. Commercial transportation launched after a series of tests.
Test transportation, which began in September 2018, lasted until 2021 - two pre-production samples of Coradia iLint, which worked exclusively on hydrogen fuel cells, participated in them. The tests, where 100% hydrogen is used, were carried out on an existing route served by Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser (EVB).
The new trains, which would replace the 15 current diesel locomotive trains, began running between the cities of Bremerferde, Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven and Buxtehude in the federal state of Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany. According to Newatlas, in the future the number of railway lines with environmentally friendly new generation trains will be increased. Alstom reports that they have a contract to supply another 27 Coradia iLint trains, which will be launched in Frankfurt am Main and its suburbs.
Releasing only steam and condensate, and having a range of 1,000 km, each train is expected to operate on one hydrogen tank for a whole day on the route. The speed on the EVB network is reportedly between 80 and 120 km/h, but trains can accelerate to 140 km/h. Each of them will replenish the hydrogen reserves daily at the Linde hydrogen refueling station in Bremerward, where 64 high-pressure tanks, six compressors and two fuel pumps are located. In the future, it is planned to produce hydrogen on site using electrolysis and electricity regeneration.
Five Coradia iLints are in service at the end of August 2022, according to EVB, and the rest are expected to replenish the fleet by the end of 2022, replacing 15 diesel trains operating on the network and saving an estimated 1.6 million litres of diesel fuel and 4.4 thousand tons of CO2 per year.
Alstom's plans for hydrogen-fueled trains are not limited to Lower Saxony, the company also contracted to supply 27 Coradia iLint hydrogen fuel cell trains to the Frankfurt metropolitan area. The company is in talks with authorities in the Lombardy region of Italy over six models and a dozen Coradia Polyvant hydrogen trains for various regions of France. Alstom also conducts operational tests in Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria.[1]
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