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

The Baseline for Market Evaluation – Vehicles in Operation

John Eichberger | August 2025 On a regular basis, the Transportation Energy Institute evaluates data related to new vehicle sales and tracks the trends in consumer ...

Current Markets Conditions Present Questions about the Future

John Eichberger | July 2025 The transportation market continues to evolve for a variety of reasons, including economics, policy and consumer sentiment. There is no confusion ...

Reducing MHDV Emissions

John Eichberger | June 2025 Medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles are not simply larger passenger vehicles – they are unique and serve critical functions throughout the ...

TEI25 Reaffirms the Health and Trajectory of the Transportation Market

John Eichberger | May 2025 I am incredibly optimistic about the future of the transportation energy sector. Over the days following the conclusion of TEI25, I ...

Economics of Travel

John Eichberger | April 2025 One of the pillars of focus for the Transportation Energy Institute (TEI) is to understand how different technologies and energies affect ...

Using Life Cycle Analysis to Reduce Emissions and Expenses

John Eichberger | March 2025 In March 2025, the Transportation Energy Institute published a short white paper, “Using Life Cycle Assessment to Evaluate the Light Duty ...

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 ...