Out to create the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050, government leaders across the EU are testing out new eco-friendly mobility solutions. For Germany, that means switching from diesel to hydrogen-powered passenger trains that expel only steam and condensed water. 🚆 “Emission-free mobility is one of the most important goals for ensuring a sustainable future,” says Henri Poupart-Lafarge, CEO and chairman of the board of Alstom, the French mobility company leading the project. 🚆 The world’s first hydrogen-powered fleet is a decade in the making: German transport authority Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen (LNVG) first began exploring alternatives to diesel rail cars in 2012. That provided the impetus for alstom to team up with local partners—engineering company lindeplc and German transport firm evb_elbeweser—to complete a two-year trial of the ultra-green Coradia iLint trains. 🚆 From there, government agencies committed €93 million to install 14 of the trains ...