Hydrogen cars still in the running | Timber turbines turning in Sweden | Hyperloop hopes alive in Canada

infrastruttura no. 45 Automakers like Toyota haven't given up on hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles just yet. America's battery-powered EV market has stalled and hydrogen-powered cars face myriad technical, practical, and logistical challenges. But many legacy automakers still believe the technology has a future, particularly in certain key mobility verticals that

America's "stalling" EV transition | AI's increasing carbon footprint | Europe's expensive hydrogen pipeline

infrastruttura no. 42 Despite the good vibes why is America's EV "revolution" stuck in the mud? Ask a random person on the street how they feel about electric cars and odds are their feedback will be positive. For example, back in June, a poll found 40% of Americans want to

Google AI tinkering with urban traffic lights | Hydrogen trains coming to Saudi Arabia | Ending Eurostar's monopoly between London and Paris

infrastruttura no. 38 Twelve cities on four continents are using a Google-powered AI to calculate and optimize durations for traffic lights. Seattle, Jakarta, Rio de Janeiro, Haifa, Budapest, Abu Dhabi, Bali, and Hamburg are among the participants in Google's Project Green Light, which uses data from the Google Maps platform

Hydrogen-powered trains hitting the rails | America's EV charging network will be expensive | LA is (sort of) launching an infrastructure bank

infrastruttura no. 25 North America's first hydrogen-powered train is taking passengers for the summer in Quebec. "Hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and it always will be" is The Economist's running joke. But there's real reason to be optimistic that the future is now, at least in certain