Hybrid vs diesel only benefit: reduction of fuel consumption, reduction of noise emissions (entry into stations), energy recovery during braking, improved sound in passenger areas, reduced maintenance costs.

H2 vs. diesel benefits: no GHG or particulate emission, reduced interior and exterior train noise, reduced vibrations, reduced maintenance costs.

Other benefits include:

1. Decongesting the road network through modal shift;
2. Strengthening the attractiveness of certain areas thanks to the “short lines” network;
3. Structuring the French industrial fabric of excellence around clean technologies;
4. Creating an ecosystem (e.g., incubator, start-up) favorable to innovation in the field of decarbonisation;
5. Creating skilled jobs in the development and production of clean rail solutions;
6. Massifying the use of decarbonated hydrogen to reduce production costs and make it available for other uses (e.g. mobility).

The use of hydrogen in the railway industry allows to massify the production and to reduce the costs

to pool distribution points for other forms of mobility in order to facilitate their promotion and thus contribute to the emergence of a hydrogen ecosystem in the territories.

The launch of hydrogen technology in public transport requires strong support from public finance.

Partnerships involved the development of Hybrid trains:

– French Regions (Grand Est, Nouvelle Aquitaine, Occitanie, Centre-Val-de-Loire)

– SNCF

– Ecosystem (local battery suppliers, suppliers of technological bricks, etc.)

Partnerships involved in the development of Hydrogen trains

– French Regions (Bourgogne Franche Comté, Grand Est, Occitanie)

– French State

– SNCF

– Ecosystem (local H2 suppliers, suppliers of technological bricks…)