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In recent months I\u2019ve had a sideline of reviewing major studies from purportedly credible organizations on decarbonization of heavy freight vehicles, along with hydrogen for energy studies. They\u2019ve mostly been very bad, with outright errors, unsupportable assumptions and clear evidence of groupthink \u2014 gruppendenken for the German ones \u2014 making the obviously incorrect results seem reasonable to the authors and reviewers, or at least impossible to question. <\/span>It\u2019s a relief to be able to spend some time looking at a report that gets it right, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden\u2019s just published study 2035 Joint Impact Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Reducing Pathways for EU Road Transport<\/span><\/span><\/em>. But before we get into that, let\u2019s take a brief tour through the previous reports.<\/p>\n

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