Zero emission cars are now a familiar sight, but there are currently almost no zero emission trucks on the road anywhere in the world. While cars are generally only used for 1.5 hours per day, trucks routinely operate for over 10 hours and sometimes much more with multiple shifts. Fleets that do operate small numbers…
Churchill is quoted as once saying: “I am preparing my impromptu remarks”. It seems that decisions about long-term green investments are sometimes made without such forethought, delivering some unintended results. For example, when the US decided to support mass production of bioethanol it was not long before scientists started raising the alarm. Apparently, unlike tropical…
London is currently in breach of EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the air, which is linked to a range of respiratory illnesses. In July, King’s College London published a report which estimated the mortality burden of NO2 and PM2.5 pollution in London in 2010, with as much as 140,743 life-years lost. We clearly…
Some of my colleagues have lived in China and one is fluent in Mandarin, but my recent 10 day trip to meet companies and investors was my first experience of the country. I knew that China was a big market, but this did not prepare me for the vast scale I encountered. In the UK,…
Backing automotive technologies is undoubtedly risky but has huge potential upside given the very large volumes involved. Investors looking at making venture capital investments in this sector will quickly find themselves faced with a choice between 3 types of innovation which can be simplified as: (1) the “evolutionary” process of making the internal combustion engine…