Organisers: IRU, WIPO
Heavy duty road transport is at a crossroads. For decades, trucks and buses have been the workhorses of our economies. Now they are becoming the frontline of the energy transition. Today’s patent landscape reveals a revolution underway: batteries breaking cost barriers, hydrogen gaining momentum, digital tools rewriting logistics, and efficiency technologies doubling the impact of every kilowatt hour.
But the real story is bigger than technology. It’s about whether innovation can scale fast enough to meet climate targets, whether infrastructure can keep pace with ambition, and whether operators can sustain the cost of transition while keeping supply chains moving.
Our panel brings together the leaders shaping this future.
We’ll explore where breakthroughs are happening, where the gaps remain, and what it will take to turn patent trends into real world decarbonisation for fleets across the globe.
SPEAKERS
Christopher Harrison, Patent Analytics Manager, WIPO
Jaidev Dhavle, Associate Programme Officer – Innovation for the Energy Transition, IRENA
Jens Hügel, Senior Adviser, IRU
Kai von Lübtow, Head of Sales and Acquisition Management Connected Services, Robert Bosch GmbH
