Michael Barnard

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Bosch could afford hydrogen investment. The deeper mistake was treating fuel-cell mobility as a strategic growth path while automotive value moved elsewhere.

Volvo's new FH Aero Electric is the kind of truck legacy manufacturers used to imply battery-electric trucking could not really become.

Volvo’s FH Aero Electric shows battery-electric freight becoming the core platform, while hydrogen should now be forced to prove exceptions.

Onboard hydrogen injection may alter diesel smoke, but an 8.7%–13.0% modeled fuel hurdle and weak test evidence undermine the climate claims.

Perpetual loss-making hydrogen fuel cell firm Ballard Power is paying £275 million for GeoPura, but only £82.5 million is cash.

Ballard is paying mostly in newly issued shares for loss-making GeoPura, acquiring its capital burden, battery competition and investor story.

Canada has named five priority electricity interties, but transfer capacity, financing, permits and value will test whether they become a national grid.

Oil forecasts that still depend on sustained Chinese road-fuel growth now have a heavy-truck problem.

Passenger EVs weakened gasoline demand. China’s coordinated electric-truck system now attacks the high-utilization diesel market oil forecasts rely on.