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Four years after embarking on a two-year operational trial run in Germany, a bunch of Coradia iLint hydrogen fuel-cell trains have entered passenger service along a 100% hydrogen route in Lower Saxony.Continue ReadingCategory: TransportTags: Hydrogen-p… Continue reading Hydrogen-powered trains enter passenger service in Germany
Locomotives remain a fast and efficient way to move cargo overland. The low rolling resistance of steel-on-steel will always beat rubber on road, the ability to pull long chains of freight cars, linked closely together, gives trains a significant aerod… Continue reading The case for converting diesel trains to run on boxcar batteries
Rail technology company Wabtec has demonstrated an electric locomotive that could help lessen the environmental footprint of heavy-haul freight services. The company’s battery-powered FLXdrive locomotive was used as part of a hybrid system over a three… Continue reading World’s first battery-electric locomotive cuts train fuel use by 11%