The irony of the energy transition is sometimes found not in a showroom, but on a siding track. While putting the BYD Shark through its paces on the dusty backroads of Laguna, I found myself face-to-face with another hybrid machine — one that predates the Shark by nearly a decade … [continued]
The Youth on Track coalition presents its demands for the EU Passenger Package following the presentation of the European Commission’s set of proposals. The Youth on Track coalition, uniting youth organisations, consumer groups, and environmental NGOs, calls in an open letter to EU institutions on raising the ambition of the … [continued]
T&E’s reaction to the EU Passenger Package. From 2027, rail travellers missing a connection due to a delay will automatically be able to jump on the next train, according to new EU rules proposed today. They will also have food and accommodation paid for if they miss the last train. … [continued]
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]
The new EU Single Ticketing legislative package could finally make booking connecting trains between major hubs convenient. Europe’s rail renaissance will never reach its full potential unless passengers are able to book connecting and international trains in a few clicks. That’s the conclusion of new research by T&E which finds that … [continued]
Romania’s award of a contract for 12 hydrogen trains to Siemens Mobility looks, at first glance, like a late but determined embrace of cleaner regional rail. Read more closely, it looks like something else. It looks like a governance failure made visible. The contract was awarded only after repeated failed … [continued]
Chatgpt generated editorial image of future competition between high-speed rail, highways, and short-haul aviation in Canada.
Canada’s revived high-speed rail (HSR) proposal deserves a serious hearing. It also deserves an outside-view assessment grounded in the history of rail megaprojects, not just the aspirations of sponsors and advocates. The current Alto proposal for a high-speed line between Toronto and Québec City is the most concrete Canadian version … [continued]
Chatgpt generated realistic landscape industrial strategy image of a boardroom table covered with rail diagrams, cost models, battery packs, fuel cell schematics
Both Cummins and Alstom lost with hydrogen, but they lost in different ways, and that difference matters. Cummins spread capital and management attention across a broad set of hydrogen pathways, including fuel cells and electrolyzers, then ran into the market reality that hydrogen demand for energy applications was weaker, slower, … [continued]
South African and Northwest Airlines 747s. Johannesburg, South Africa and NYC. May 29, 2000. Photo by Fritz Hasler.
When my father left Utah to go as a Mormon missionary to Austria in 1927, he traveled from Utah County, Utah, by coal-burning steam train in 2 or 3 days to Chicago. There he boarded a Great Lakes steamer traveling through Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario, … [continued]
The Hybrid Electric Train passing by the Calamba station just last weekend, March 1. (Photo by author)
I was there in June of 2016 when a five-coach train rolled into Tutuban Station and was presented to officials and the media. Developed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) through its Metals Industry Research and Development Center (MIRDC), the Hybrid Electric Train (HET) was introduced as the … [continued]
