ChatGPT generated panoramic image of Winnipeg City Council looking at a hydrogen bus full of Canadian money on fire
Into Canada’s ongoing challenges with bus fleet decarbonization comes Winnipeg, which hasn’t featured much so far in the ongoing tale of transit think tank CUTRIC’s incompetence, sole sourcing and hydrogen-centric conflicts of interest. However, it did have a role in a piece assessing Canadian bus manufacture New Flyer’s strategic missteps … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of consultants rubbing their hands greedily over a shell game with the shells labelled H2
In one of my articles related to the debacle that is Canada’s transit think tank CUTRIC’s guidance and modeling on bus fleet decarbonization, especially the Brampton fleet report that was off by about $1.5 billion on a $9 billion price tag, I shared the open letter to the Board I’d … [continued]
Four weeks ago, I didn’t know the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium existed. If I’d seen mention of it, I probably would have assumed it as an innocuous little organization full of pleasant Canadians working diligently for the good of Canadian transit. But the onion keeps being peeled. … [continued]
ChatGPT generated panoramic image of a pair of scales labeled CUTA with a transit bus labeled "H2" on one scale and a transit bus covered in circuitry on the other.
Globally, there are almost 700,000 battery electric buses in operation and perhaps 6,000 hydrogen buses. In Europe in 2023, about 6,400 new battery electric buses were registered vs. about 140 hydrogen buses. As I noted recently, there have are more hydrogen bus trials that have been abandoned than operational hydrogen … [continued]
Ballard Power Systems is planning a gigantic fuel cell factory in Texas, which will help push fossil energy out of the heavy duty transportation sector (photo courtesy of Ballard).
If all goes according to plan, by 2027 Ballard Power Systems will be operating its new fuel cell factory in Texas at the 3-gigawatts level.
Battery-electric vehicle stakeholders are adjusting their business models to support the rising demand for hydrogen fuel cell technology.
New bus depot in Maryland blows up the Internet with solar powered green hydrogen production on site (image courtesy of AlphaStruxure).
New bus depot in Maryland blows up the Internet with solar powered green hydrogen production on site.
Alexander Dennis, a division of NFI Group Inc., one of the leading independent bus manufacturers in the world, has announced intentions to convert its current Larbert headquarters located in Scotland into a future manufacturing plant. From August 2023, the Larbert site will concentrate on producing the new Enviro400EV zero-emission bus, … [continued]
Toyota’s dream of zero emissions vehicles powered by hydrogen and solid state batteries at the Summer Olympics has been a miserable failure.
This hydrogen fuel cell bus, and 599 more like it, could all run on green hydrogen if all goes according to plan.
