Adrian Brandt
@no-bull.bsky.social
Longtime Caltrain advocate/wonk. Acting Caltrain CAC chair.
Evidence- & fact-based skeptic. Question everything. No belief is sacred.
I ❤️ politics, public policy, transit/trains, travel, SCUBA, baking & eating good bread, and keeping my German fluent.
Evidence- & fact-based skeptic. Question everything. No belief is sacred.
I ❤️ politics, public policy, transit/trains, travel, SCUBA, baking & eating good bread, and keeping my German fluent.
… and generous gov’t ZEV grants. Stadler’s underway development and future testing, certification, and delivery of Caltrain’s new battery EMU was 100% funded with an $80m CalSTA grant. Same for many / most agencies’ H2 & battery bus buys (eg SamTrans, Santa Cruz Metro) made largely with grants.
March 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
… and generous gov’t ZEV grants. Stadler’s underway development and future testing, certification, and delivery of Caltrain’s new battery EMU was 100% funded with an $80m CalSTA grant. Same for many / most agencies’ H2 & battery bus buys (eg SamTrans, Santa Cruz Metro) made largely with grants.
On a related topic: cleantechnica.com/2025/03/13/w...
Why Do Transit Agencies Keep Falling for the Hydrogen Bus Myth? - CleanTechnica
Transit agencies keep choosing hydrogen buses due to cognitive biases like anchoring, operational tunnel vision, and reliance on misleading narratives.
cleantechnica.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
On a related topic: cleantechnica.com/2025/03/13/w...
Barnard being on the board of a UK-based battery aircraft co. is irrelevant to his data. AC’s 5x5 used 2020/21-era BEBs, ignored H2 production GHG & leak emissions of cheaper gray H2 @ > $9/kg. Despite that, their BEBs are >2x as energy efficient as their HFCBs actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
actransit.legistar.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Barnard being on the board of a UK-based battery aircraft co. is irrelevant to his data. AC’s 5x5 used 2020/21-era BEBs, ignored H2 production GHG & leak emissions of cheaper gray H2 @ > $9/kg. Despite that, their BEBs are >2x as energy efficient as their HFCBs actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...