Hydrogen trains Transmashholding

2021: Creation of hydrogen-fueled trains in the Russian Federation

At the end of April 2021, it became known about the planned creation of the first hydrogen-fueled trains in Russia. The implementation of this project was undertaken by Transmashholding.

According to RBC, Transmashholding and the government of the Sakhalin Region agreed to supply seven trains by 2024. The value of the contract exceeds 3 billion rubles. The price of a train ticket, as indicated in the presentation, will be from 1.8 to 27.3 rubles per kilometer of track.

The presentation also indicates that Trasnmashholding will deliver five two-car trains (405 million rubles each) and two three-car trains (492 million rubles each). Russian Railways will rent trains, Rosatom will be engaged in the production of fuel in the region.

The first hydrogen-fueled trains will appear in Russia, Trasnmashholding is engaged in the project

Partners want to create a refueling infrastructure and supply power plants for hydrogen trains for operation in the Sakhalin Region, as well as come up with a project for the use of hydrogen transport in Moscow. In the statement of Transmashholding, the words of the president of Rusatom Overseas JSC Yevgeny Pakermanov are quoted. He noted that the project in the Sakhalin Region is being worked out together with Russian Railways and the regional government.

In April 2021, Rusatom Overseas, the producer of industrial gases Air Liquide and the government of the Sakhalin Region signed a memorandum of understanding, under which they will study the possibility of organizing the production of low-carbon hydrogen in Sakhalin. According to preliminary estimates of Rosatom, the volume of hydrogen production on the island may range from 30 thousand to 100 thousand tons per year.

The world's first hydrogen fuel cell train, Coradia iLint, was launched by the French engineering company Alstom in northwest Germany in September 2018. It is able to reach speeds of up to 140 km/h and overcome almost silently at one gas station of about 1 thousand km.^[1]

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