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Hydrogen Trains Get Headlines. Battery Trains Get Used.
India’s first hydrogen passenger train arrived with an impressive label attached: the world’s most powerful hydrogen train. That’s a genuine engineering accomplishment, but it isn’t the competition railway operators are trying to win. They need trains that leave the depot, cover the timetable, receive fuel or charge reliably, return from … [continued]
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New Zealand Electric Vehicle Market Rises from the Depths! (CHARTS)
Once touted as a possible “Norway of the Pacific,” New Zealand’s electric vehicle transition was stopped in its tracks by a change of government. The new conservative government reversed the generous tax incentives for EVs and brought in a road user charge. EV sales plummeted. Sounds like another country we … [continued]
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Waymo Jacks Up Lobbying In Washington, DC
The race is on in the robotaxi industry to get into new markets, build up customer bases, and edge out the competition before they arrive — or at least at these nascent stages when no one is too massive or dominant. I just covered news of Zoox launching paid service … [continued]
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Zoox To Start Charging Passengers Next Week
Zoox has been allowed to do self-driving vehicle and robotaxi testing for a long time, but it hasn’t been allowed to charge passengers for them. Now, however, that has changed — Zoox got approval last week from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis … [continued]
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VICTORY: Court Overturns Trump Administration’s Wind Pause
Portland, Oregon — Today, the United States District Court for the District of Oregon ruled in favor of clean energy developers in a legal challenge against Donald Trump’s Department of Defense for freezing reviews of wind projects and delaying development for renewable energy. The review freeze created a “de-facto moratorium” on new wind, … [continued]
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