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Observations on the current happenings in the world of transportation from Transportation Energy Institute Executive Director, John Eichberger.

Seeking Sources of Truth

John Eichberger | February 2025 The Transportation Energy Institute prides itself on being objective and fact-based. In a world where data (sometimes without validation) is often ...

Looking Ahead in 2025

John Eichberger | January 2025 Every year, people prognosticate that “this will be a critical year for [insert particular issue].” At TEI, we are not prone ...

Reducing Emissions through Fuel

John Eichberger | December 2024 There continues to be an endless fascination with the new and exciting. However, as we continue down the path to lower ...

Taking the Temperature of the Market

John Eichberger | October 2024 As the fourth quarter rapidly closes on the end of the year, this might be a good time to take a ...

The Grand Tour Ends

John Eichberger | September 2024 The title is not a metaphor – the car expedition series featuring Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond has aired ...

How Fast Can You Charge Your EV?

John Eichberger | August 2024 This is a key question asked when evaluating the growth potential for battery electric vehicles (BEV). Range on a full charge ...

We’re Halfway There

John Eichberger | July 2024 Watching the Stanley Cup playoffs this year, I was surprised so many rinks and fans were using Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on ...

Cocktail Napkin Carbon Reductions

John Eichberger | June 2024 Taking complex topics and boiling them down to simple analytics can be very useful to provide people with a basic context. ...

Artificial Intelligence – Energy Demand and Transportation

John Eichberger | May 2024 Forty years ago, in the year 1984, Kyle Reese arrived in Los Angeles to prevent Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 from killing ...

Innovation Can Provide a Sustainable Answer

John Eichberger | April 2024 When seeking solutions to a vexing problem, I believe it most helpful to enlist the services of as many smart people ...

Is Reducing Emissions Enough?

John Eichberger | March 2024 The global push to reduce emissions, especially those related to carbon, continues to be intense. In the past 20 years, tremendous ...

Consumers – Understanding the Critical Link

John Eichberger | February 2024 I heard a guy present once and he led with, “In God we trust, all others bring data.” That statement resonated ...

2023 Light Duty Vehicle Market – The Data

John Eichberger | January 2024 With 2024 well underway, I thought it would be appropriate to take a quick look at 2023 vehicle sales to level ...

Alternative Infrastructure Has Long Way to Go

John Eichberger | December 2023 For most people, purchasing a vehicle is not typically a fun experience but rather a necessity (I might be the exception ...

Affordability – The Factor that Covers all Others

John Eichberger | November 2023 When we started the Institute nearly 11 years ago, we often declared – “No matter how good your solution might be, ...