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

Hybrid Theory

John Eichberger | May 7, 2021 The first hybrid vehicle introduced to the United States debuted 22 years ago – the Honda Insight. The following year, ...

On the Road Again

John Eichberger | March 15, 2021 If the global priority with regards to the transportation sector is to reduce carbon emissions, then putting all our eggs ...

Life is a Highway

John Eichberger | February 3, 2021 On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order committing the United States to accept the provisions of ...

EV Ownership – What Challenges Exist? | Consumer Avenue

January 15, 2021 The idea of maintenance-free vehicle ownership sounds too good to be true. However, there is a perception that owning an EV is ...

Everybody Wants to Rule the World

John Eichberger | December 9, 2020 In general, the developed economies of the world are uniting in their pursuit of a lower carbon/carbon neutral/net zero carbon ...

When It’s Love

John Eichberger | November 5, 2020 “The road is calling and I must go.” Those are the words on the framed poster above my desk, hovering ...

Walking on the Moon

John Eichberger | October 5, 2020 In 1961, President Kennedy announced that the U.S. would land a man on the Moon before the end of the ...

Fall Back Down

John Eichberger | September 8, 2020 The COVID economic shut down had a significant impact on all industries, but especially the vehicle market. Since everything began, ...

Runnin’ Down a Dream

John Eichberger | August 6, 2020 A popular vision for the future of transportation has been assigned a variety of acronyms, but the one I seem ...

I’ll Be Around

John Eichberger | July 9, 2020 Lost among the excitement and hype associated with vehicle electrification is the fact that 98% of vehicles sold in the ...

Crazy Train

John Eichberger | June 3, 2020 As the world begins to reopen following the coronavirus pandemic, there are so many unanswerable questions about the future of ...

I Can See Clearly Now

John Eichberger | April 30, 2020 Growing up in Southern California in the 1970s and 1980s, I experienced first-hand the impact of air pollution and smog. ...

Things Will be Different (And Together We’ll Push On)

John Eichberger | April 6, 2020 There is nothing normal about what is happening throughout the world right now – a worldwide pandemic, oil price wars ...

Ring of Fire

John Eichberger | March 2, 2020 So much attention is paid to alternative fuels and vehicles, including by us at the Transportation Energy Institute, but the ...

The More Things Change

John Eichberger | January 29, 2020 As we begin a new decade, I will predict that the transportation market at the end of 2029 will look ...