A dozen Spanish companies have united to ensure that the AV works with one flammable What Tesla He desires with all his might. They want to adapt hydrogen propulsion to a high-speed train for the first time, an ambitious project that could mark a before and after in mobility. Several companies in the national territory have become allies to design and build a propulsion system based on a renewable hydrogen cell and install it for the first time in no time. AV.
These entities are grouped in the project Hympulso. They will develop technologies that can be applied to the ‘all-terrain’ train Talgo 250 that would allow the electrification of the rail network with energy produced entirely from renewable sources, even on lines that do not have overhead lines. Talgo leader Hympulsoof which a group Golendus, Ingeteam, Optimus3D, Repsol j Tendons They are also partners. For its part, the Pontifical University of Comillas j Tecnalia They act as employees and Adif as an observer.
The initiative for this new fuel for high-speed trains has a subsidy of 6.5 million euros and is part of the incentive program for the innovative value chain and knowledge of renewable hydrogen, within the framework of the Recovery plan, transformation j Resistance.
A new fuel for the AVE: this is the project that will change mobility forever
Hympulso will activate the entire renewable hydrogen value chain. It will have an integral character and cover the process from the production of the flammable to consumption. In addition, it will analyze the impact that the future transition will have on the different railway infrastructure assets responsible Adifas well as maintenance facilities or the road itself.
In this way, the initiative includes hydrogen supply facilities (mobile and fixed) adapted to the track and a so far unpublished prototype of a bimodal passenger train with a different gauge, which can circulate on both conventional and high-speed networks, using flammable of overhead lines if available, or hydrogen and batteries in correctors that do not have electrification.
This proposal is critical for the sector as it will require multiple actors to address the technological challenges associated with the adoption of renewable hydrogen, from both the public and private sectors.
Hympulso means a new era for the rail sector
The partners of Hympulso They are trying to advance their enabling technologies and expertise with hydrogen. The purpose of Talgo is the development, production and testing of dual-hybrid hydrogen battery traction on a train branch Size 25, the destination of which is long-range operations in mixed sections. Mixed sections are sections that are partially electrified.
The trains Talgo 250 They have two technical extreme cars (CET) each currently used to produce the electricity that powers the tractor heads, which use diesel on the routes without overhead lines.
Hympulso searches for the replacement in a unit Talgo 250 one of those diesel CET for another with batteries flammable and batteries, which are responsible for supplying the locomotives with electricity from 100% renewable hydrogen.
The AVE is transforming: dozens of companies will do this with high-speed trains
The other participants will also play a prominent role in the project. Ingeteam will design, manufacture and test reversible high-power inverters that can charge the batteries via the overhead line. In addition, Repsol j Goudendus They are responsible for the development of two hydrogen refueling installations. Repsol will extend a mobile installation Goudendus will have a permanent production and delivery facility.
All companies involved therefore contribute in one way or another. These functions are just some of the functions that the skilled actors have taken on in this project, framed within the call Value chain: design, demonstration and validation of hydrogen-powered mobility integrated in LOSS (Strategic projects for economic recovery and transformation) of renewable energies, renewable hydrogen and storage (ERHA). Of all the calls, Hympulso It is the project that scores the highest because of its technical soundness and innovative ideas.