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Coradia iLint: the first hydrogen-powered train It’ll be travelling all around Germany without using coal, diesel fuel or any other polluting combustible substances, emitting only water vapour.

It took two years to build it, but the result could really represent a turning point in the field of sustainable transports.

Coradia ILint is the first hydrogen-powered train in the world and before long, it’ll travel Germany from end to end emitting only steam as exhaust fumes.

It’s a really cutting-edge invention.

The idea sprang up from two brilliant French engineers working for Alstom.

They managed to tune up an emission-free means of transportation and optimized its energy efficiency so that it’ll be on the track from next year.

The first journey has been planned for December 2017, along the section Buxtehude-Bremervörde-Bremerhaven-Cuxhaven.

The new train is really efficient, and in terms of performance we won’t miss with nostalgia its "polluting forefathers".

It is able to travel for 800 kilometres and can count on a number of hydrogen stations installed along the way to fill up its external roof tanks.

It can carry up to 300 passengers and has 150 seats.

The new train can reach a top speed of 160 km/h.

This is a noteworthy result, since we are talking about an emission-free means.

The German railway has enlisted an ecological ally.