From Interesting Engineering, August 9:
The new models are cheaper to operate.
LVNG, a German state-owned railway company and the first firm to adopt commercial hydrogen trains, is letting go of the powerful vehicles and replacing them instead with electric versions.
This is according to a report by Quartz published on Monday.
The article noted how the company began using the hydrogen fuel-cell trains in September of 2018 only to recently get rid of them because electric versions are cheaper to run and operate.
A press release by the firm further noted the company’s dedication to phasing out fossil fuels by using the new battery-electric models.
102 electric trains
"From 2029 we will successively use 102 new multiple units with battery technology that are emission-free - and thus phase out existing diesel fleets," said in the statement Lower Saxony's Transport Minister Olaf Lies....
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