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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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California’s Hydrogen Infrastructure Collapse Proves What We’ve Known All Along

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The Explosive Tipping Point Late on the night of Tuesday, February 24, 2026, California’s hydrogen mobility market ground to a sudden halt when an explosion tore through an industrial truck storage yard located at 3994 Miguel Bustamante Parkway in Colton, California. According to fire department reports, the blast occurred while … [continued]

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How The West Lost The Automotive Industry And Its Mojo, Part 2

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This is the second of three articles seeking to contextualise the failure of the West to grasp or even understand or manifest technological change over the past 15 years. The touchstone used here, and in our previous article, is “New Energy Vehicles” (plugin vehicles). The first article focussed primarily on … [continued]

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Bikes for Everything, + Much of What I’ve Learned Riding Bikes for 75 Years (Part II Safety)

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In Part I, I discussed how bikes and ebikes can be used for: Last-mile transportation in conjunction with public transport — you can take your bike with you on a commuter train, streetcar, or bus. Transporting our children with us on bikes with jump seats and with trailers. Bike transport … [continued]

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Ballard’s 500 Fuel Cell Deal Meets A Hydrogen Bus Market That Never Arrived

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Ballard Power and New Flyer announced what sounds at first like a market-making agreement, a commercial arrangement for 500 fuel cell engines, or about 50 MW of modules, for hydrogen transit buses starting in 2026. On the surface, that reads like the kind of order that only appears when a … [continued]

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