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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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Spiro Raises $50 Million As Demand For Its Battery Swapping Infrastructure & EVs Surges Across Africa

8 min read

Motorcycles are a really big deal in a lot of African countries, with most of them deployed as taxis. Close to 30 million motorcycles on the continent are used in this motorcycle taxi industry. With almost 99% of them still being internal combustion engine motorcycles, there is a huge opportunity … [continued]

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Most Maritime Shipping Battery Propulsion Studies Are Already Obsolete

14 min read

Most maritime battery studies are already obsolete. That is not a criticism of the researchers who wrote them. It is a recognition that their assumptions were grounded in the battery costs and energy densities available at the time. Several of the most detailed recent merchant shipping studies modeled battery system … [continued]

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