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China’s Electric Concrete Mixer Boom Is A Warning To Slow Heavy Truck Markets

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Battery-electric concrete mixers are becoming one of heavy transport’s more interesting electrification stories, not because they are glamorous, but because they are difficult-looking vehicles that are proving easier to electrify than many expected. In China, they have moved from niche to major new-sales category in five years. Outside China, they … [continued]

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Ireland’s Fuel Protests Should Accelerate Farm Electrification

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The tractors and trucks outside Ireland’s Whitegate oil refinery in April were not just a protest about pump prices. They were a stress test of Ireland’s rural energy model, and that model did not look resilient. Reuters reported that blockades by farmers, hauliers, and contractors disrupted Whitegate, ports, roads, and … [continued]

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Hydrogen Trucks In China Are A Policy Side Bet, Not A Market Winner

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Someone pushed another hydrogen trucking headline from China across my desk recently, this time tied to northern China, heavy trucks, refueling corridors, and the familiar implication that the future had somehow arrived. It is a recurring genre now. There is always another corridor, another station cluster, another policy target, another … [continued]

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