China Will Electrify & Decarbonize Much Faster Than Europe Unless EU Puts Act In Action

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:15:47 +0000

This week I had the privilege of speaking in Brussels, steps from the European Parliament, among a group of speakers that included the Belgian energy minister and a member of European parliament, then participating in a panel discussion. The event was a launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super … [continued]

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Brussels Conversations: Port Decarbonization, Economics Of Climate Refugees, Logistics Strategy & More

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:50:49 +0000

When people found out I was going to be in Brussels, invitations for lunch and dinner came out of the woodwork, and people started booking train rides, including two from London. Lengthy conversations on different decarbonization challenges ensued, around the main event itself, the book launch of the second edition … [continued]

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New Flyer Bus OEM Has Its Strategy Wrong & Will Lose Market Share

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:45:58 +0000

New Flyer is the leading provider of transit buses in North America. It’s also the leading provider of hydrogen buses in North America, which is a problem for it, although it feels like an opportunity. That’s where the bad strategy comes in. As always when I talk about strategy — … [continued]

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Real World Hydrogen Refueling Stations With Electrolysis Far Less Efficient Than Assumed

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:42:20 +0000

Unsurprisingly, when it comes to hydrogen, the more real-world data collection and analysis that is done and published, the worse it looks. The latest black eye for the tiny molecule that so many love is in the efficiency of making hydrogen at refueling stations. The Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility … [continued]

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How Many Hydrogen Transit Trial Failures Are Enough?

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:13:50 +0000

In the past few days I’ve been going deep on some very odd results out of a Canadian transit think tank’s research and reports for client municipalities, finding that bad assumptions and worse scenarios resulted in $1.5 billion being taken off of hydrogen bus costs. Discussion around this led to … [continued]

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Cheaper Tesla Models Coming Next Year!

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:58:28 +0000

Update: Also see “Correction, and Confusion: What Are Tesla’s Next, Cheaper Models?” for more discussion on this topic. Despite a lot of confusion on this matter in the past year or so, Tesla reaffirmed in its 3rd quarter shareholder letter and on its shareholder conference call today that the company … [continued]

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Other Automakers Pour Money Into Tesla’s Bank Account Again

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:57:03 +0000

Tesla published its third quarter shareholder letter today and held its conference call for shareholders. There were a few interesting points, including that more affordable Tesla models are supposed to be arriving in 2025, but the first thing that jumped out to me was the second line — because it … [continued]

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CUTRIC’s Hydrogen Bus Study Dodges $1.5bn In Costs To Justify Higher Emissions

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:29:45 +0000

In the past week, I’ve been digging into the underpinnings of a few Canadian cities’ current fixation on wasting serious amounts of taxpayer money on hydrogen buses. I had been ignoring it, more than not, as I’d assessed global hydrogen fleet trials and results along with exorbitant global hydrogen transportation … [continued]

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Hyundai To Build EVs And EV Components In India

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:21:39 +0000

It’s no secret that India is hardcore about trying to force local manufacturing. This has been a barrier to Tesla entering India for a while, and to many others. However, it’s a giant vehicle market with a lot of potential, especially as we get to cheaper and cheaper electric vehicles … [continued]

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West Virginia Lobs An Energy Storage Brickbat At Fossil Fuel Stakeholders

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:47:21 +0000

These “power blocks” house new long duration iron-air energy storage systems, designed to shepherd more renewable energy into the grid.

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