article thumbnail

NACFE releases guidance report on hydrogen fuel cell heavy-duty trucks

Green Car Congress

We published this report to help make sense of hydrogen for commercial freight movement. Hydrogen is a regional solution, cheap hydrogen even more so. Almost every day there is a new announcement about hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks. Even with all the information, there are a lot of unanswered questions.

Hydrogen 482
article thumbnail

The Coming Construction Boom

Cars That Think

A large proportion of the people who now live in rural areas will move to cities , just as happened over the last century in North America. Imagine using cheap wind- and solar-generated electricity to pull carbon out of the atmosphere and turn it into feedstock for large-scale 3D printing of building components.

Egypt 138
article thumbnail

Forecast: Algae-Based Biofuels Production to Reach 61M Gallons per Year by 2020

Green Car Congress

Latin America and Asia Pacific, which are home to fewer projects in operation today, are set to gain significant market share in the long run. Both regions will benefit from rapidly expanding biofuels markets, ample land and water resources, and cheap labor, Pike suggests. the Synthetic Genomics Inc. and Exxon Mobil Corp.

2020 319
article thumbnail

2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz: Electric Microbus for North America appears, at last

Charged EVs

Iconic design, two-tone paint, three rows, AWD; whatever you call it, the Buzz won’t be cheap. The 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz electric minivan has been coming to North America for a long, long time. It’s been on sale in Europe for a year, as has the Cargo commercial-van variant. and Canadian markets in the second half of next year.

article thumbnail

Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

Here at Charged , we’ve been covering the commercial EV market for a decade. After many discussions with players in the commercial EV field, we realized that the problem was proving the performance of EVs. Rustam Kocher has been a pioneer in the commercial EV field. Everything on a commercial vehicle has to be more rugged.

Fleet 52
article thumbnail

EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

Ford F-150 Lightning It’s all about adventure and work for the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck The biggest-selling pick-up truck in America is the F-150 and in 2022 – the F-150 Lightning production line started rolling in September 2021 – it added a battery electric version called the F-150 Lightning.

F-150 98
article thumbnail

India stays No. 3 spot in global car sales but Japan fast closing the gap | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

Unlike the developed markets like Japan, North America and Europe, India is still an emerging one so we expect important growth rates in the coming years if the policy and the government intervention continue to be as healthy as it was in 2023.”

India 52