{"id":82777,"date":"2018-09-18T07:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/germany-rolls-out-worlds-first-hydrogen-train"},"modified":"2018-09-18T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:22:21","slug":"germany-rolls-out-worlds-first-hydrogen-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/germany-rolls-out-worlds-first-hydrogen-train","title":{"rendered":"Germany rolls out world\u2019s first hydrogen train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/germany-rolls-out-worlds-first-hydrogen-train.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Germany on Monday rolled out the world\u2019s first hydrogen-powered train, signalling the start of a push to challenge the might of polluting diesel trains with costlier but more eco-friendly technology.<\/p>\n<p>Two bright blue Coradia iLint trains, built by French TGV-maker Alstom, began running a 100-kilometre (62-mile) route between the towns and cities of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervoerde and Buxtehude in northern Germany\u2014a stretch normally plied by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/diesel+trains\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">diesel trains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world\u2019s first hydrogen train is entering into commercial service and is ready for serial production,\u201d Alstom CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge said at an unveiling ceremony in Bremervoerde, the station where the trains will be refuelled with hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-09-germany-world-hydrogen.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;09-germany-world-hydrogen.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany on Monday rolled out the world\u2019s first hydrogen-powered train, signalling the start of a push to challenge the might of polluting diesel trains with costlier but more eco-friendly technology. Two bright blue Coradia iLint trains, built by French TGV-maker Alstom, began running a 100-kilometre (62-mile) route between the towns and cities of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}