Kirill Lipa, Managing Director of Transmashholding (TMH), said in an interview: TASSThat the creation of a hydrogen-fueled train in Russia is at a very early stage.
Such a project has also been started on the hydrogen power plant, but it is going very hard, it is not easy,” he said.
According to him, the holding is currently designing a common train platform that will be both hydrogen carrier and non-hydrogen carrier. The CEO stated that this platform will use a variety of power sources.
In January, a representative of Rusatom Overseas (a subsidiary of Rosatom) announced that passenger transport will be carried out on Russia’s first hydrogen trains. beginning in the last quarter of 2025. The company representative noted that the change in conditions was primarily related to the “innovation of the project”.
The Russian Railways press service stated that the launch of hydrogen trains is an extremely complex and science-intensive process.
It was previously reported that Russia’s railway transport was carried out. can go For hydrogen fuel cells.