We're looking ahead to 2030, but presumably anything you're engineering now is only going to be ready by 2030. So what are the things that are really like where you're focusing effort now? I'll break it down into three or four things, right? In electric stuff, it is more about battery cell chemistry and electrical chemistry of batteries. On internal combustion engine side, how do we use over diesel engines to use different fuels like hydrogen,. And then the other piece of work that we are trying to work on is these low carbon fuels.
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This is the second episode of The Great Energy Transition, a new series from Intelligence Squared in partnership with Cummins and we’re looking ahead to the future to ask - what needs to happen between 2030 and 2050 to reach net zero? To explore the drastic technological innovation and societal change needed to make net zero emissions by 2050 a reality, we’re joined by Srikanth Padmanabhan, President of the Engine Business at Cummins. Our host for this series is physicist and broadcaster, Helen Czerski.
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