Volvo’s long-range electric truck shows where freight architecture is moving: batteries and charging at the center, hydrogen forced to prove exceptions.
Volvo’s new FH Aero Electric is the kind of truck legacy manufacturers used to imply battery-electric trucking could not really become. It claims up to 700 kilometers of range, carries up to 725 kWh of usable battery energy, supports megawatt charging, and uses a new e-axle to free more chassis … [continued]
Bill Frist served as a senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. During his last four years, he was the Senate majority leader. He chose not to stand for re-election in 2006 because he pledged during his first campaign for the Senate that he would not serve for more than … [continued]
Bosch could afford the hydrogen spend. The strategic risk was treating fuel-cell mobility as a growth path while automotive value moved toward batteries, software and electric platforms.
Bosch’s hydrogen story is easy to misread. Stefan Hartung is leaving the top job earlier than expected, Christian Fischer takes over on July 1, and the company is coming off a difficult 2025. The tempting version is simple: Bosch bet wrong on hydrogen, and the bill came due. That is … [continued]
When I was an early stage doctoral student, our professor asked each of us to turn to someone in the room and explain our upcoming dissertation idea. Whoa! That was tough, as our colleagues didn’t necessarily share our disciplinary background knowledge nor the jargon that we took for granted in … [continued]
Continuing from part one, here is part two of a two-part series on fixing climate communications. Winston Churchill: “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” If it is a truism that age and experience bring perspective, then, as someone who is 50+ and … [continued]
Part one of a two-part series. The Potential Energy Coalition just released Fixing Climate Communications 2026, which deserves more than my LinkedIn post. Commissioned by The Rockefeller Foundation and grounded in data from over 83,000 survey respondents across six countries, six years of message testing, and more than 1,350 randomized … [continued]
I saw a title this morning — “It Took a While, but Americans May Have Found Something We All Hate” — and thought immediately that it must be referring to AI, or more specifically AI data centers. Indeed, that’s what it was about. However, as much as I appreciated the … [continued]
Powering new AI data centers in the US will create emissions equal to those of Australia. Tech madness Is rampant in America.
Future Proof Shipping gave hydrogen cargo shipping something most hydrogen shipping announcements never provide: working vessels. H2 Barge 1 and H2 Barge 2 were not artist renderings, conference-stage concepts or another memorandum of understanding. They were inland cargo vessels converted to hydrogen fuel-cell operation and put into real freight service … [continued]
Primary and final energy are accounting ledgers; useful energy shows what the economy actually gets.
The COP31 proposal for electricity to supply 35% of global final energy demand by 2035 is useful, ambitious and better than a renewables target on its own. It pushes the climate conversation beyond power generation and into vehicles, buildings and industry, where fossil fuels remain embedded. It also exposed a … [continued]
