World’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains

• Germany recently launched the world’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains to replace 15 diesel trains running on non-electrified tracks in the state of Lower Saxony.

• The new trains are equipped with a hydrogen tank and fuel cells on the roof and will produce electricity by combining water and hydrogen. 

• The company revealed that the excess energy produced will be stored in ion-lithium batteries.

• The estimated cost of this project is around 93-million-euro (USD 92 million).

• The green trains can travel 600 miles (1,000km) and a maximum speed of 140 kph (87 mph) on a single tank of hydrogen, similar to the range of diesel trains.