Romania is cancelling plans to buy 12 hydrogen-powered trains worth around 360 million euros and wants instead to reinvest EU funds intended for the project in building highways.…
Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail), and the Latvian company DIGAS have entered into a contractual agreement aimed at transforming a diesel freight locomotive into one that runs on hydrogen…
The Polish Office of Rail Transport (UTK) approved the deployment of a hydrogen-powered shunting locomotive “for the purpose of conducting operational tests”. This initiative was carried out in…
Canadian fuel specialists Loop Energy and Hydrogen In Motion (H2M) have begun work to retrofit a diesel electric switcher locomotive to run on hydrogen-electric power, marking the first…
American locomotive manufacturer Wabtec and researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will work on a collaborative research to develop locomotives powered…
A pilot project in Namibia to develop a hydrogen-diesel locomotive was selected to receive funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. A consortium of Hyphen…
SNCF subsidiary Captrain France has announced a partnership agreement with Hydrogène de France (HDF Energy) to develop hydrogen-powered locomotives, a decarbonisation solution for French and European rail freight.
Alstom and ENGIE have agreed on a partnership that will see the two companies work on fuel cell drive trains for electric locomotives and the accompanying hydrogen production and…
Russia is currently building a fleet of new hydrogen-based freight locomotives, completely in line with the recently approved state strategy towards hydrogen energy in the Russian Federation. But…
By 2030, Russian parties plan to develop hydrogen-powered trains in the Sakhalin region, a Russian island in the far east. They will be equipped with the Cognitive Rail…
Shell and Texaco joint venture Equilon Enterprises has been awarded a 4 million dollar grant by the California Energy Commission for the development of a multimodal hydrogen refuelling…
Russian Railways (RZD), Rusnano and Sinara Group have signed a cooperation agreement for the development of mainline hydrogen locomotives. A power plant based on electrochemical hydrogen fuel cells…