Wim explains to the audience at Autoworld how much he enjoys driving his electric truck and training other drivers. "With smooth gear shifts and no vibrations, they don't want to give it back!" Lovely to hear from happy EV drivers! #emobility #etrucks #2030

Cut petrol cars in cities. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This short documentary is unmissable and profoundly moving. Thank you George and Todd for sharing your stories via #SafeLanding www.theguardian.com/film/ng-inte...

I don't think enough people are talking about the interrelationship between climate change and insurance - not just in the US, but in Europe too. If anyone has more resources on this, I'd gratefully receive them!

Best #Eurovision bit in a long while...

Raised by a Dad who was a child in the Second World War, I feel strongly about the value of marking anniversaries such as #VEDay. It is a time for thanks but also for reflection. This article does the latter powerfully. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Renewable Energy = Energy Security. Ed Miliband gets it. Can he come to Brussels and explain it to some EU politicians please?

97% of business leaders support the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy - poll in 15 major economies by @e3g.bsky.social #climatecrisis #the89Percent www.e3g.org/publications...

"In a volatile global economy, it is frankly insane to keep relying on imported fossil fuels—the main cause of climate change—when renewable energy offers a cheaper and cleaner alternative." Can't say clearer than that.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has “100% hatred” toward Russian leader Vladimir Putin. “How else can you see a person who came here and murdered our people, murdered children?” says Zelenskyy. https://cbsn.ws/3YyaIlp

A great introduction from @jamesbwood.bsky.social to today's ECF & Fathom Consulting event on "Europe's flightpath to economic competitiveness", focussing our minds on the need to find solutions for this sector for our generation and, especially, the ones on the way!

Sales of electric cars to rise 35% to 16m in China this year HT @carbonbrief.org www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202504/01/...

Thanks to @jeppejuul.bsky.social @sorenhave.dk and many others for a fantastic inaugural #CopenhagenContrails conference. We can see a clear opportunity to reduce the heating impact of aviation - now we just need to get more companies & policymakers on board!

In Copenhagen for a conference on the as yet unrealised potential of limiting global warming by addressing contrails - seen in the first photo I took of this lovely city. More info in this timely report from @transenv.bsky.social - www.transportenvironment.org/topics/plane...

MEP @tpellerincarlin.bsky.social calls out Automotive lobbyists who have not bothered to read the IPCC Report's executive summary. "It is not alarmist to state the scientific fact that this is an existential crisis" #emobility

Packed room for the Platform for Electro-Mobility's event "Clean or Dirty?" on the Clean Industrial Deal

Inspiring speech at @smartfreightcentre.bsky.social by @mliebreich.bsky.social #SmartFreightWeek2025 in an old ship building factory in Amsterdam. "Nothing is inevitable... we have to make things happen we want to see happen"

A reminder that climate change doesn't mean a new, hotter "normal" but instead greater uncertainty going forward. www.reuters.com/business/env...

Just to make a fun-sponge point: if every Trump supporter bought an EV, even if the electricity grid was 100% fossil fuel powered, it would still reduce carbon emissions, because EVs are ~5 times more efficient than internal combustion engines.

Indeed. Join the Copenhagen Contrails Conference to push on this actually happening: copenhagencontrails.org

"Lithuania has quietly gone about one of the fastest energy transitions on the planet. Wind and solar accounted for nearly two-thirds (65%) of the country’s power generation in 2024" - climate solutions = energy security

People in London have been breathing significantly cleaner air since the expansion of the ultra low emission zone #ULEZ #airpollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...

HOT OFF THE PRESS: Clean power in the UK by 2030 will halve gas imports for power generation. New Ember report. But transport and home heating remain highly exposed to energy imports unless the transition to clean energy accelerates. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Meanwhile, in countries that have clear targets for zero emission vehicles... you get more zero emission vehicles!

The Commission has given more leeway to carmakers 🚗 who have been given 3 more years to comply with their 2025 CO2 targets. This will have strong consequences for consumers limiting their choice of small and affordable electric vehicles and the 🌍. More here 👇 www.beuc.eu/press-releas...

When governments back EVs, they sell lots. There's a lesson in there somewhere (but apparently not one the EU is learning).

Big congrats to the European car industry today for increasing their share price at the expense of the planet (again). Thankfully we have lots of time to waste. www.euractiv.com/section/eet/...

Even as total European car sales fell 2% EV sales grew a blistering 37% as automakers raced to meet C02 rules Turns out the regulations work 🤷‍♂️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

To no one's surprise, UK newspapers are full of truly dreadful - and, at times, outright bizarre - "reporting" of the Climate Change Committee's new carbon-budget advice. For a sane and nuanced summary – with lots of charts - here's our detailed coverage... www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-reducing...

EV sales in Europe: up 38% Tesla sales in Europe: down 45.2% Breathe it in folks, breathe it innnnnnnnnnnnn www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Interesting data. Is anyone doing major studies into this?

This is not remotely connected to anything I normally post about. It's just brilliant.

Oh yes please 🙏🙏 "New direct high-speed train routes could serve Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva and Zurich by 2029..." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The car industry is trying to lobby out climate targets for its biggest polluting vehicles. 10% of the most polluting vehicles would be excluded from the cars CO2 targets under ‘relief measures’ proposed by the industry. Read our analysis ➡️ https://bit.ly/41n4bvR

Carmakers don’t seem to mean what they say. One minute they can comply with the EU’s car CO2 targets. The next, they are demanding the targets be scrapped. They are playing a double game to weaken climate rules: complain then comply. Explore the timeline ➡️ https://bit.ly/3X8ReTP

Go Canada! 🇨🇦

Commissioner for Sustainable Transport Tzitzikostas emphasises "we need to make bold investments today to take advantage of these opportunities tomorrow" for EU decarbonisation & competitiveness at @transenv.bsky.social #ProjectSkyPower e-SAF event

Is there a special term for when you accidentally dress in the same colour palette as the conference branding? @transenv.bsky.social

e-SAF is the key to decarbonising aviation but without stronger financial tools the 30 large-scale projects planned for the EU could fail. T&E is joining CEOs from the aviation industry to call for urgent policy support to scale e-SAF production in the EU. Read the letter ➡️ https://bit.ly/4gACZhq

If you want to experience something that previous generations haven't, here it is: The last 10 years have been the 10 warmest years on record.

Having worked in the field for more than 20 years, it is now already the 3rd time that I witness carmakers exaggerating compliance costs ahead of a next stage of the EU's #CO2standards for new vehicles.

A comprehensive take-down of SAF by @benpurvis42.bsky.social - overblown estimates on emissions savings - same CO2 output when burned - at worst, could be more carbon-intensive than regular jet fuel - limited feedstock, often imported - savings are extinguished by expansion of the industry

As the car industry moans in Politico about "just" growing by 3% in 2024, @chloemiko.bsky.social reveals the money and tactics behind key car industry lobbyist ACEA ... www.linkedin.com/posts/chlo%C...

E-Mobility Europe and @newautomotive.org have released a new study which shows that the EU *must* stick to the 2025 targets to protect 450,000 electric cars to be sold, 530,000t CO2 savings and €270 million fuel savings. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

UK EV sales are booming!⚡️🚗 January saw a record-breaking start to the year for EVs, with 21.5% of new car registrations fully electric. Carmakers are stepping up efforts to hit their 23-24% 2025 target. The momentum is building with more affordable models hitting the market.

Non Road Mobile Machinery - the next frontier of decarbonised vehicles?

"Nowhere in the 28 contracts granted to NGOs and analyzed by POLITICO does the Commission provide direct instructions to lobby on its behalf." #slowclap Of course they don't. Now investigate corporate lobbying. www.politico.eu/article/fact...

The news getting you down? I invite you to stare at this chart of solar and wind deployed capacity in China. They blew past their ambitious 2030 target... last July.

AVERE since 1978 has just become "E-mobility Europe" (to a rapturous round of applause!) - new branding launched, of course, at Autoworld 🚗