This Patent Landscape Report on Decarbonizing Heavy-Duty Road Transport was prepared under the stewardship of Marco Alemán (Assistant Director General, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector) and the direction of Andrew Czajkowski (Acting Senior Director, Technology and Innovation Support Division), and was led by Christopher Harrison (Patent Analytics Manager, IP Analytics Section, Technology and Innovation Support Division), with the generous financial support of Funds-In-Trust Japan Industrial Property Global provided by the Japan Patent Office.
The report was prepared by a project team led by Christopher Harrison that included Lakshmi Supriya (Patent Analytics Officer), Hong Kan (Patent Analytics Officer), Ekrem Çakay (Fellow), Brianne Nicole Sanchez (Young Expert) and Pooyan Piredeir (former Young Expert) from the IP Analytics Section, Technology and Innovation Support Division, as well as Kai Gramke, Jochen Spuck and Klaus Jank (all from EconSight).
Our sincere thanks to our project partners at IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency), in particular James Walker (Team Lead – Renewable Gases), Gayathri Prakash (Programme Officer, Innovation and End Use Sectors) and Jaidev Dhavle (Associate Programme Officer, Innovation for the Energy Transition). A special thanks also to Jens Hügel (Senior Adviser, IRU – International Road Transport Union) and Thibault Villien de Gabiole (Lead, Industry Decarbonization–Trucking, World Economic Forum) for their invaluable expert contribution to the report, as well as Marie-Anne Cervoni, Romaine Mouton, Hamza Guirrou and John Kidd (all from IRU – International Road Transport Union). The preparation of this report benefited from the expert review and comments of Abdullah Fahad, Arno van den Bos, Begonia Figueroa, Bilal Hussain, Jinlei Feng, Kamlesh Dookayka, Karan Kochhar, Mengzhu Xiao, Nadeem Goussous and Nolwazi Khumalo (all from IRENA), as well as Daniel Bowermaster (EPRI), Lars Martensson (Volvo) and Victor Bonilla (EBRD).
Our thanks also go to the WIPO editorial and design team led by Charlotte Beauchamp (Head of Publications and Design, Digital Engagement Service).
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