Now 15 years!
How times have changed.
12.01.2026 08:40
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Now 15 years!
How times have changed.
Another application that was meant to be the domain of hydrogen: Heavy-haul long distance freight railways.
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Clickbait headline - it's actually a hydrogen bus that's gone up in flames...
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2567966...
Another big told you so...
Alstom’s Hydrogen Retreat Marks A Turning Point For European Rail - CleanTechnica share.google/jkOK2PbactWt...
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This is a truly awesome demonstration of where EV technology is at now. Kudos to Mercedes.
Yep just shows the lengths people go to and power of lobbying and FUD.
I'm not sure how this is even still a debate. This is a presentation Martin Eberhard (CEO of Tesla) gave to CARB in 2006 that more than makes the point. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o3sbz...
Here are some direct links to what has been going on in the UK:
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Pulling away from a station off the wires.
As usual the UK starts a job and then gives up half way.
Midland Main Line electrification pause down to lack of funds and bi-mode trains, Hendy says | New Civil Engineer share.google/RLLF0hbdALlz...
Well the reality is the UK can't even electrify its mainlines, yet alone the whole network. Solutions like this are more cost effective for a branch line that might see one train an hour.
Even train loving Japan, which has electrified nearly everything, sees a need for these in niche applications.
...and here from the overhead wires as it pulls into the mainline terminal station and recharges.
There was even a Toyota Prius style screen in each carriage informing passengers which energy source the train was running on and what systems it was powering. Here we are running on battery power...
These Hitachi made trains were running on various routes of a more modest 16 miles round trip, but in all other respects were like any other modern 2-car unit.
The typical Japanese attention to detail even extended to "Dual Energy Charge Train" branding on the flooring and other interior panels.
Great to see @gwr.com achieve 200 miles range in a converted battery powered ex-London Underground train this week. I hope it leads to modern units deployed across the UK.
On my trip to Japan last month I rode these 2 car BEMUs around Fukuoka. Here you see one charging at the turn around station.
Jesus wept 🤦
BBC now scared of energy efficiency.
Hydrogen reality:
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aber...
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Most unlike Clarkson to fabricate a straw man....not.
If only he'd concentrated on calling out Musk's personality and not the cars or their underlying technology :/
I was waiting for this article. Surprised it took him so long.
If direct air capture (DAC), a CO₂ removal (CDR) technique, costs $500 per tonne, removing just US emissions would cost ~$3 trillion annually (that's ~4x US military spending).
It would also require twice the total power generation capacity of the US today (and it has to be 100% carbon-free).
Ironic that the constituency around the Tesla factory is one of only two places in the whole of east Germany that didn't vote AfD and instead went left (although sadly by only 0.1% - less than 200 votes)
www.reuters.com/graphics/GER...
Indeed, showing the main culprit is brakes. EVs hardly touch brakes, so will win in stop-start traffic. On an open road the heavier car will cause more wear, everything else being equal. But I question their assumption weight difference is 40% and do they consider "eco" tyres are more hard wearing?
The Telegraph is going to have a meltdown when they see this: eandt.theiet.org/2025/02/12/e...
cc @bobbyllew.bsky.social
