Chinese company unveils 'world's most powerful' hydrogen locomotive

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China expects to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.

The locomotive is called Ningdong and has been manufactured by state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation .that the CRRC had launched in January the world's first urban train powered by hydrogen. The train was produced in a joint effort between the CRRC Changchun Railway Company and Chengdu Rail Transit.

As our atmosphere gets hotter and more turbulent due to the greenhouse effect, vehicle emissions are one of the major cause of global warming. "As China aims to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, governments at all levels are making efforts to promote the hydrogen energy industry, laying out specific hydrogen development plans to drive the industry," said Chen Weirong, dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University, as per aThe National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic regulator, in association with the National Energy...

Under the plan, China will seek to have around 50,000 hydrogen-fueled vehicles and a batch of hydrogen fueling stations by 2025. China aims to produce 100,000 metric tons to 200,000 tons of hydrogen generated from renewable energy sources a year, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 1 million tons to 2 million tons a year, said theThe CRRC’s hydrogen technology has the potential to replace over 90% of engines running on fossil fuels, according to the report by SCMP.

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