$潍柴动力(SZ000338)$ 经过广泛研究，LNVG 决定放弃氢计划，转而采用电池电动列车，并宣布从 2029 年开始，该网络将开始引入 102 列新的电池电动列车。

LNVG 发现，电动火车能够使用架空受电弓线或在所谓的“充电岛”充电，以避免需要架空接触线，比氢和柴油替代品更便宜。

The German state of Lower Saxony will redirect its attention away from hydrogen fuel-cell trains to battery electric trains, with the local transport authority announcing its plans to operate 102 battery electric trains from 2029 onwards.

Lower Saxony’s state-owned transport company LNVG (thankfully short for Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen) 网页链接{announced at the end of July} that it will use only battery electric trains after it determined that they were “cheaper to run” than hydrogen fuel-cell alternatives.

LNVG had already begun testing hydrogen fuel-cell trains, and 14 Alstom Coradia iLint hydrogen fuel-cell trains began operating along passenger routes in Lower Saxony 网页链接{a year ago}.

The supposedly “world first” hydrogen train network relied on daily fuelling from the Linde hydrogen filling station and each train was able to travel 1,000 kilometres. At least two pre-series Alstom Coradia iLint trains had been in operation on the line since September 2018.

However, following extensive research, LNVG has decided to abandon its hydrogen plans in favour of battery electric trains, declaring that from 2029 the network will begin introducing 102 new battery electric trains.

LNVG found that the electric trains – able to be charged using overhead pantograph lines or at so-called “charging islands” to avoid the need for overhead contact wires – are cheaper than hydrogen and diesel alternatives.

LNVG expects the final diesel-fuelled trains to leave the tracks by 2037. Among the battery powered options to be operating on the LNVG rail network are 网页链接{Alstom Coradia Stream} units, which can reach a maximum speed of 200km/h and can run on non-electrified lines using batteries.

网页链接{In early 2021}, Alston and LNVG signed an agreement for 34 Coradia Stream High Capacity double-decker EMU trains, and which will be in service by the end of 2024.