Reflecting on the FLIRT H2's Historic World Record Run 

In the EU a battery train usually makes more sense for small branch lines because they can recharge when they reach the mainline and there is electric ovehead infrastructure. In the U.S. there are vast parts of the country where there is no electric overhead anywhere nearby, so minor branch lines might choose hydrogen instead of battery trains depending on what their use case is. From the video, the world record for a battery train is 220 km, while the world record for hydrogen is 2803 km.

@@OntarioTrafficMan Exactly, and also, the abundance of freight company owned tracks that won't electrify anytime soon

Rail corporation CEOs want to show quarterly profit and get big bonuses. Electrification and proper maintenance cuts into those profits. Granted RoI on Electrification is 2 to 5 years but the dont have the spine to justify the lesser profits even until then. Plus they don't give a squat about the environment.

@@mongoose1618 yeah, if only there was a way the government could idk, incentivize these companies to invest in the infrastructure and stuff

It’s new tech it’s gonna get cheaper over time

liquid hydrogen has a higher mass then air only gassious hydrogen is lighter then air.

@@obelic71 At normal pressure levels, yes. If hydrogen is carried in tanks, it's usually compressed to a point where it's far more dense than air.

@@Tealice1 Correct and most hydrogen carried in tank is in liguid form. Those tanks need to resist the -252 Celcius storage temperature.

@@obelic71 And still at cryogenic temperatures the pressure is significant, and liquid H2 only achieves 8.5 megajoules per liter while diesel is 35.8 MJ per liter.

@@ElectricNed Diesel for Ships, trains and heavy industry is not easy to replace. The ease of use, storage and availlable infrastructure makes it very hard to replace. Also most industrial Hydrogen today is refined from natural gas. Using liquid natural gas as a fuel directly would make more sense then convert it to hydrogen and then use it as a fuel. Only when hydrogen is produced by nuclear , wind, water and solar from water it becomes the green energy.they claim today.

Yes, it was done in Pueblo, CO at the Ensco test track. My film company JSB Cinema filmed some of this footage

@@sarachavez17 ok.

Umm… overhead wires not an option? Technology which has been powering trains in an efficiently and environmentally friendly way for more than 100 years? And without the use of extremely polluting batteries?

@@damianoandreaarrigoni4401 that's why the US is getting them first with less than 1% of rain in the states electrified.

@@miles5600 Or we could simply put up wires and immediately start running trains with pantographs…. Oh, but right, I forgot, the big 4 freight companies are not interested in saving the environment…😐

@@damianoandreaarrigoni4401Battery trains are mostly for use on lines that have too limited traffic to be worth it to fully electrify. Typically, many secondary lines in Europe now purchase battery electric multiple unit trains to replace their DMU's. Of course, some overhead wires are still put up as "charging islands", but you save a lot of money by only partially electrifying the lines and running most of the trip on battery. For these lower traffic lines, it's not a choice between battery trains or overhead lines, it's a choice between battery trains, diesel, or shutting the line down. And say whatever you want about batteries, they are still a lot better for the environment than fossil fuels.

@@damianoandreaarrigoni4401 that's possible. only problem is that the federal government with the power to change this is corrupt LOLL

Unfortunately the US managed to make it harder than that

those lines have electric wires because the juce is necesarry on those lines disel trains would be a pain there too

The train is going to Southern California, so you're a bit off the mark lol

Flat tracks need less energy . A comparison made on flat tracks is a fraud .

@@ichhier8535 it’s not a fraud, because this train is intended to operate on flat tracks

I know! It would be so much better to just electrify the railroad and run normal electric trains.

Stadler is from Switzerland

Not when your country has freight operators that will do anything to avoid overhead electrification haha