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Canada’s Hydrogen Bus Trials Canceled Due To High Costs & Emissions

February 7, 2025 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, Edmonton, electric buses, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell, fuel cell buses, green economy, grid, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, winnipeg

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:32:16 +0000

For several months I’ve been digging through what’s going on with a Canadian transit ‘think’ tank, CUTRIC, and why it’s pushing hydrogen buses into city plans across the country. It keeps claiming hydrogen buses have been a success and are cheap, but cities keep canceling their plans for them as … [continued]

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Hydrogen Buses Hurt The People They Are Meant To Help

February 6, 2025 admin California, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell, fuel cell buses, green economy, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell buses, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:00:55 +0000

A sign of a great city is that the rich take public transit. Well, not really. They take light rail and subways. But they don’t take buses. In many cities, light rail systems attract a more affluent ridership compared to buses, highlighting a persistent disparity in public transit usage. Studies … [continued]

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Canadian Transit “Think” Tank Presenting Fluff & Denials To Mississauga Council

February 4, 2025 admin batteries, byd, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric mass transit, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, green economy, green hydrogen, green jobs, hydrogen, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, new flyer

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:55:18 +0000

Over a couple of the last months of 2024, part of my time was spent looking at the bizarre situation of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC). That’s resurfaced, as the Mississauga hydrogen bus trial is going forward despite having zero merit, and CUTRIC’s founder and head … [continued]

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Transportation Firm Deathwatch: Hydrogen & EVTOLs

January 31, 2025 admin archer, Aviation, carbon emissions, China, clean shipping, clean transport, climate change, ehang, Electric vehicles, Energy, fuel cell, green economy, heavy rail, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, India, investment, joby, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, Shipping, trains / rail, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:34:06 +0000

For several years there have been a couple of parallel slow motion failures in the making, the use of hydrogen in transportation and the Jetsons’ fantasy of air taxis zipping over cities. Neither were based in economic, regulatory, or technical reality, preferring instead to have vast sums of governmental and … [continued]

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Korean Hydrogen Explosions, Leaks, Auction Failure & Impeachment May Cause Pivot

January 18, 2025 admin carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Energy, ferry, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, Hyundai, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, policy & politics, Shipping, South korea, subsidies, trains / rail

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:14:09 +0000

The hydrogen atom is tiny. Getting enough of it in one place requires pressures found at three to seven kilometers under the surface of the ocean. Unsurprisingly, it leaks. As it’s an indirect greenhouse gas and an explosion risk, that’s a big problem. South Korea has been learning exactly what … [continued]

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How Can A Canadian Transit Think Tank Be So Deeply Incompetent?

November 26, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, fuel cell buses, green economy, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, mass transit, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:06:37 +0000

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Raynor, formerly a managing director of sustainability and thought leadership for Deloitte and author of multiple books on innovation and strategy. We talked about not only an innovative approach to addressing Scope 3 emissions that Raynor has developed, but also … [continued]

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Winnipeg Is Making Major Local Transit Bus Firm New Flyer More Likely To Fail

November 24, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric buses, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, ev batteries, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell buses, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, new flyer, policy & politics, renewable energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:55:03 +0000

I have a lot of sympathy for Winnipeg. I’ve been there for work many times. I’ve been there in their frigid, tens of degrees Celsius below zero winters. I’ve been there in their dusty summers. I’ve even tried to get across the main intersection that pedestrians still aren’t allowed to … [continued]

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Vancouver Translink Bus Decarbonization At Risk From $1.3 Million CUTRIC Sole Source Study

November 23, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell buses, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, policy & politics, renewable energy, subsidies

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:21:27 +0000

British Columbia in Canada has a long history with hydrogen for transportation and its constant failures. Ballard Power, the fuel cell manufacturer that pivoted away from lithium ion batteries in 1989 to the losing technology, is based in the Vancouver area. Whistler, the famed ski and mountain biking area with … [continued]

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Canadian Transit Think Tank CUTRIC Riddled With Conflicts Of Interest

November 22, 2024 admin air quality, ballard, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, enbridge, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell buses, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, new flyer, Oil, policy & politics, subsidies

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:10:09 +0000

Four weeks ago, I didn’t know the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium existed. If I’d seen mention of it, I probably would have assumed it as an innocuous little organization full of pleasant Canadians working diligently for the good of Canadian transit. But the onion keeps being peeled. … [continued]

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Agenda Of Canadian CUTA Transit Conference Shows They Have Hydrogen On Brain Too

November 21, 2024 admin bus (buses), byd, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric bus, electric buses, Electric vehicles, events, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen fuel cell buses, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:29:49 +0000

Globally, there are almost 700,000 battery electric buses in operation and perhaps 6,000 hydrogen buses. In Europe in 2023, about 6,400 new battery electric buses were registered vs. about 140 hydrogen buses. As I noted recently, there have are more hydrogen bus trials that have been abandoned than operational hydrogen … [continued]

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