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XPENG’s Human Approach To Technology: Part 1

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While listening to the technical discussions at XPENG presentations and press conferences, I started to see the people behind the technology. While we can get caught up in the technical details, all the progress that we see comes from human ideas and the hard work of teams of people. Every … [continued]

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Hydrogen Transportation After HVS: Narrow Niches, Big Subsidies, Long Pilots

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HVS was not a fringe hydrogen truck company with a sketch and a slogan. It had a serious ambition, a real engineering team, public support, private funding, partnerships, prototypes, and a target market that sounded plausible enough: zero-emission heavy-duty freight. Hydrogen Vehicle Systems wanted to build fuel-cell trucks for a … [continued]

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The Ocean Is Not A Server Rack: Panthalassa, Peter Thiel, And Wave-Powered AI Compute

18 min read

I have been seeing LinkedIn posts about Panthalassa’s wave-powered AI data-center concept recently, and the reaction they’ve been getting is familiar. Big funding round. AI power bottleneck. Ocean energy. No grid connection. No land constraint. Autonomous machines. A new category. It had all the ingredients of a story built to … [continued]

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Vienna’s Hydrogen Bus Failure Is A Warning To Transit Agencies

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Seven of Vienna’s ten new hydrogen buses are sidelined because CaetanoBus cannot supply ordinary spare parts. Not hydrogen tanks. Not fuel-cell stacks. Not high-pressure valves. Door compressors and blind-spot monitoring systems. That is what makes the case important for transit procurement agencies. The reported failure is not exotic enough to … [continued]

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