A closer look at Italy’s new hydrogen and battery train tenders
Vulcano diesel train on Sicily's Circumetnea Railway, which will be replaced by hydrogen trains NEWAG
Italy is making a leap forward in the use of hydrogen and battery trains, driven by investments via the country’s recovery plan after the corona pandemic. Here is an overview of the recently published tenders and Italy’s plan for the use of hydrogen and battery traction to replace current diesel operations.
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“hydrogen fuel cell […] converts the fuel to electric power”: which means every “hydrogen train” is also a battery train, so “hydrogen-battery train” would be more accurate.
They have a greater range, at the expense of room for a larger hydrogen tank than for a diesel battery hybrid and lugging that extra weight and the fuel cell (or diesel engine) around. Quick-chargers at some stations would save on that wasted (!) energy, price of the train, wear and tear on the line (heayvier train)…
Advantage of hybrid electrification is redundancy, the requested.
(Any vital of society has to prove redundant.)
Remains for infrastructure to prove resilient – and a robust railway is provided!
(The robust transport devices, provide for low risk, high quality supply chains, the handsomely rewarded, by willingly paying clients – and vice versa…)