Belgian BEV drivers use their vehicle more than German Diesel Dieters! 🤣 ⚡️⚡️⚡️ welcome, to the future, Belgium! #alwaysbecharging

quite fun that everyone was stunned by figures showing a massive decline in trips to america, then everyone realised it was a statistical artefact of a different date for easter, and then… there was a massive decline in trips to america www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This sucks incredibly hard.

A year or so ago, it was popular (and quite persuasive) to blame inflation for the unpopularity of most incumbent governments. Quite interesting that three new governments since then (Trump, Starmer, Merz) have rapidly become unpopular too.

Cycling after dark is part of everyday life here, but it still raises real concerns. This week I look at what helps people feel safe on those night-time rides – from lighting to travelling together. New post and video.

Why there is no tsunami of waste EV batteries www.linkedin.com/posts/hanser...

*gasp*

I don’t get it. I had to check to see if he really posted this. Did he see this video and think that he announced this and just forgot doing this? Does he just straight up have dementia? Where did he even get the video? He’s always been an idiot, but this seems out there even by his standards.

@autoschmidt.bsky.social: "Tesla is becoming an "also-ran" in Western Europe's electric car market. Recent announcements regarding production rate increases and strong order books are most likely linked to non-European order books as the company exports to markets in the Middle East and Taiwan"

The rise and fall of the internal combustion engine, China edition. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

Just lunacy for Labour to think that UK's problems can be solved while keeping their manifesto promises intact:

But note that the decline from 2017 was not so much about a switch to EVs starting then (that really kicked off in 2021). It was a decline in total sales of cars in China. There was a significant slowdown.

I heard @cleanpowerdave.bsky.social mention on the @volts.wtf podcast that "sales of oil-powered cars peaked back in 2017. They've been falling for almost eight years now. It's insane", so I've updated my data back to 2015 to show this. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

@awlnx.bsky.social: "You can now see a heatmap and "Hot chargers" You can also filter the timeline now for specific chargers and search for chargers by ID globally." #alwaysbecharging charging.awlnx.space

-10 / -14,9% for H2 fuel cell passenger cars. Thus, dreams based on fugitive gases prove to be just as fugitive. Also good to see the declining fossil car fleet (to do: declining overall car fleet)

The claim that the Israeli government is ethnically cleansing the West Bank is somehow inaccurate or inflammatory is utterly insane. Settlers routinely engage in murder and arson to get Palestinians to leave where they’ve living. That’s the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing.

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

This is parking for people who live in my building (80 units). There are 60 bikes here, and 60 more on the other side. Think about the space this saves. 🚲❤️ Dit is de parkeerplaats voor de bewoners van mijn gebouw. Denk eens aan de ruimte die dit bespaart. En aan de impact op het milieu. 🚲❤️Utrecht

Been working on this analysis of the US OBBBA this week. Core BNEF assumption is that the IRS follows the executive order to make the implementation of "FOEC" rules limiting Chinese content / subcomponents / intellectual property in new wind and solar projects almost impossible to meet.

I am going to cheap out and go with the Polestar ⚡🤠 #RentElectric

I really like running the airconditioning on solar power.

I hate drama but this account has found its way into a few of your follow lists and is posing as a legit energy / climate type with a fixation on hydrogen. Best to block, as I'm about to do. TW: extremely random antisemitism, especially as a response to a post about berries.

Pakistan's battery boom is definitely starting! I got the battery data and it's $95m of batteries in March to May alone..

🚗🔋 May 2025 Car Sales Update – Europe (🇪🇺27 + 🇮🇸🇳🇴🇨🇭EFTA + 🇬🇧UK) May 2025: 🔋 BEV Sales: 193,493 📈 +26.7% vs May 2024 ⚡️ Market Share: 17.4% (was 14% last year) Jan–May 2025 Total 🔋 BEV Sales: 951,653 📈 +27.7% YoY ⚡️ Market Share: 17.1% (up from 13.4%) ⬇️ 20 interactive charts available at the link below

Incredible energy. You love to see it

Ah yes, the much discussed and analyzed realignment on war and foreign policy we’ve been hearing so much about. Count the GOP co-sponsors.

I mean yes. The entire point of peacefully protesting is so that when shit like this happens, people get rightfully outraged. This is going viral precisely because of how much of an overreaction it was.

I'm all in favour of protesting to draw the public's attention to an issue, I just think it should be done in a way that is distinguishable from how paid plants from your opponents would act to undermine you.

honestly the ADL is more or less just an anti-Arab hate group which is entirely neutral on the issue of antisemitism

JUST GONE LIVE😊 We'd love to see what people can do with it... ember-energy.org/data/electri...

And here's the whole blog! 🔌💡 blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-solar-...

@glynhudson.bsky.social hi Glyn, came across one of your forum posts (community.openenergymonitor.org/t/nibe-f2040...) that mentioned you'd set the circulator to auto and to run at 10% between cycles. Is this something that can be done in the SMO S40 controls? Cheers 🙂

The first major energy supplier in The Netherlands to introduce a 'modern' time-of-use tariff: a (modest) 6 cents/kWh cheaper during the day (11 - 17:00) and night (22-5:00) (via @nandotolboom.bsky.social) www.eneco.nl/duurzame-ene...

Don't look now but Waymo's had 708,000 paid driverless rides in California in March. Data: @californiapuc.bsky.social

Well, I do hope this is very temporary.

The replies to this are full of people yelling at Kat, a Palestinian-American politician, for not supporting the shooting of low-level staffers in DC, which has only had the effect of drawing coverage *away* from the genocide in Gaza & provided a pretext for future suppression of peaceful protests.

I am generally okay with the nuclear-strength blocking on this site but it makes stuff like this confusing.

I think this is probably right - the shape of the EU-UK reset is basically 'Brexit, but only for businesses and workers', i.e. the economic damage is still largely there but for most day-to-day EU-UK interactions, the pain is gone.

OK, wow. "The motion was passed with 102 votes in favor, eight against and 31 abstentions."

*very* cheeky of the Guardian to illustrate this with a picture of Farthing Down, a site of special scientific interest and thus absolutely not the sort of horrible scrubland the mayor's talking about here

Does anyone know of a recent period when inflation was low and we could have built stuff.

Slightly more seriously. It's crazy how the entire supposed constitutional theory of Trump 2.0 is that all power is vested in this single individual, down to every last tiny detail and whenever you ask him he's like "I have no idea; ask the lawyers"

It's called The Unitary Executive, look it up!

Government by vice signaling. Doing good things is woke so we’re just gonna do bad things

The Times: “French officials said that at least one Rafale fighter jet …was shot down by Pakistan, which claimed to have downed three, among five Indian jets in total. At least one Indian pilot was said to have ejected and was being treated in hospital” www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

India carried out overnight strikes on multiple locations in Pakistan in retaliation for last month’s militant attack that killed 26 civilians. The map shows reported strike locations. Satellite images of the aftermath of two of the struck sites in thread below. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...

A Russian influence operation was going nowhere. Then it hit the big time www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Harold Wilson’s major policy shift from Hugh Gaitskell was backing measures that introduced a colour bar into UK immigration!

"corresponding actions against India" www.dawn.com/live/pakista... My prediction: Pakistan will launch stand-off missile strikes against multiple targets in India—possibly nine for parity. They might look for targets with a connection to the bases or launch sites associated with the Indian strikes.

A. Torsoli: "Excessive European Union regulation is inflating the cost of making small cars, hurting an industry key for employment" "IT, FR & ES should push back against #EU rules that favor larger vehicles & risk making compact cars unaffordable for many of their citizens, the 2 bosses said."