Originally Posted by
Traffic_Is_Er_Was
“Looking to the future,” Wabtec says it plans to “accelerate the shift to alternative clean energy solutions, through zero-emission hydrogen-powered locomotives.”
Their future is not with batteries.
But near as we have it, the PRESENT is batteries. We're a good way down the path of rolling out electric vehicle infrastructue, which is not suprising given that it piggybacks off of the existing grid. There are applications (aviation being an obvious one) where hydrogen is definatlry a bettr fit- but you have to bear the set up costs which are enourmous, and so many applications will stick with what is rather than with what could be.