Looking back on 2025, my trip to Guangzhou in November was one of the most eye-opening experiences I’ve had. I knew that the media portrays a distorted and outdated picture of China, but I really didn’t grasp how much until seeing it with my own eyes on this latest trip. … [continued]
Vingroup announced separate strategic agreements in late December to develop urban infrastructure and green public transport networks in Uzbekistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Vietnamese conglomerate signed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Kinshasa and Exposure SARL on Dec. 29 to modernize the African capital’s … [continued]
This year marked the point where hydrogen transportation stopped being a future tense conversation and became an accounting exercise. Across light duty vehicles, buses, trucks, trains, mining equipment, refueling infrastructure, and even aviation, withdrawals outpaced commitments. These were not isolated pilots failing at the margins. They were coordinated retreats spread … [continued]
VinSpeed High-Speed Railway Investment and Development Joint Stock Company, a unit of Vietnam’s Vingroup conglomerate, has signed a strategic cooperation and technology transfer agreement with Siemens Mobility GmbH to advance high-speed rail development in Vietnam. The accord, agreed in Hanoi on December 17, establishes a framework for technology transfer, design … [continued]
T&E, Greenpeace and a coalition of 12 other environmental organisations asks the European Commission to keep article 20 in the EU Air Services Regulation (ASR). Two years ago, the European Commission’s implementing decision (EU) 2022/2358 confirmed the French measure establishing a limitation on the exercise of traffic rights due to serious environmental … [continued]
The story of the United States corn ethanol industry is a story about a sector that grew rapidly under a very specific set of policy, technology and market conditions. It filled a gap when gasoline demand was rising, when climate policy focused on incremental change, and when EVs were still … [continued]
Alstom’s announcement that it is pausing further development of hydrogen trains has landed with the weight of a company that has been at the center of Europe’s rail innovation story for decades. The firm will still complete existing hydrogen train orders, but R&D work has been halted after France withdrew … [continued]
T&E Contribution to the European Commission’s Public Consultation on VAT Rules for Travel and Tourism Sectors. Summary Despite being some of the most carbon-intensive modes of transport, aviation and shipping continue to benefit from some of the most generous tax exemptions in Europe. One of the most significant of these … [continued]
Priority must be placed on tackling bottlenecks in cross-border rail infrastructure and supporting domestic clean fuel production. The European Commission today published an EU Military Mobility Package, a proposal to aid the rapid movement of troops and equipment in response to the current geopolitical context. Green transport group T&E said that, if … [continued]
Golden Week in China has always been a national ritual of movement, most often compared to Thanksgiving in the USA. Highways fill, train stations hum, and the country seems to breathe in and out in rhythm with its people heading home or out to see the country. It has also … [continued]
