The German Railway Office has given the green light to domestic commercial operation of the world ’s first hydrogen fuel cell passenger train . Two prototypes of Alstom 's Coradia iLint will be piloted on the Main - Rhine network , with a passenger service scheduled to start in late summer this year . Coradia iLint is based on the service-proven diesel train Coradia Lint 54. The trains have a range of 600 km to 800 km , a top speed of 140kph and can carry up to 300 passengers . The move follows an agreement from December 2017 for Alstom to supply Lower Saxony with 14 hydrogen fuel cell trains , operational from December 2021 .
The German Railway Office has given the green light to domestic commercial operation of the world ’s first hydrogen fuel cell passenger train . Two prototypes of Alstom 's Coradia iLint will be piloted on the Main - Rhine network , with a passenger service scheduled to start in late summer this year . The trains have a range of 600 km to 800 km , a top speed of 140kph and can carry up to 300 passengers . The move follows an agreement from December 2017 for Alstom to supply Lower Saxony with 14 hydrogen fuel cell trains , operational from December 2021 .