“It packs 14.5MWh of energy storage capacity into one unit, equivalent to 10MWh in a 20-foot area. That is far higher than the 6-7MWh products that have been announced over the past year, and double the 5MWh which has become the industry minimum standard over the last several years.”

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to invest in wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables (unless on-site). But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇

Hell no. Why would we want to do that if there is evidence that we shouldn’t do that?

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

Hear that NZ trucking industry? Don’t waste your time with experimental H, go with the proven tech! Also checkout the electric trucker for Germany centric reference: m.youtube.com/@electrictru... #economics #nzpol

Critics say renewables are inefficient: solar panels capture ~20% of sunlight, wind turbines ~40%. OK, apply the same to fossil fuels: What % of solar radiation becomes biomass then buried as coal/oil? ChatGPT: 0.00002%.

Anyway, the natural response here is to start using fake contact details more often. Which isn't exactly good for submissions. But that's where untrustworthy, abusive government gets you.

That's 496.22 km/h BTW. It's amazing how effortless this thing just goes from 300-400 km/h like it's 0-50. 🤯

lol ICE. lol prestige ICE brands.

Nobody is using the roads lets remove them!

Cover story - USA tariffs! FACTS - #NewZealand trade INCREASED in Q2/25 compared to Q2/24 Luxon is full of shit, blames everyone but their own incompetence #nzpol

When privatisation is on the agenda, the question needs to be asked? #nzpol My power bill is unaffordable now, what will happen to my healthcare if it’s privatised? Profits as the driver for essential services is always a disaster.

but Aotearoa's government says mining more coal is what's needed *sighs* #nzpol

'Cleaning up industry and the global economy will produce massive economic dividends for countries that grasp the opportunity.' #climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.

Willie Jackson said some things 👏 #nzpol #ResignNicola #OneTermGovernment #NoConfidence #Election2026

FBI officials set up base in Wellington AotearoaNZ….

Born in 1873 Maori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate at University of Oxford. She enrolled in 1922 to read Anthropology at Pitt Rivers Museum but tragically died just before graduating. She will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford next week.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

What we call things reveals a lot about our priorities and biases. Graphic via @reenamahajan.bsky.social

RNZ really needs help with it's headlines lately. Calling for the entire government to resign is not 'stopping short' of calling for Willis' resignation, that is implicit. What he has done is *go further* and implicitly called for a snap election.

We are the only OECD Nation with negative GDP Growth since 2023 Given we had GDP growth under Labour this marks abject failure of National, and also those economists and monetary policy theorists who also have been getting it constantly wrong. It was, is, and always will be fiscal policy

Wait until they realise how right we are on climate too 🙄

Two can play that game. Let's platform the right's disgraced politicians huh? ACT: Tim Jago -pedo ACT: Suppression of above ACT: Simon Court: misuse of info NAT: Andrew Bayly -bully NAT: David Macleod - electoral corruption NZF: Tanya Unkovich -misinformation That's what's up. #nzpol #nzmedia

This was the start of the year... we were already the developed world's worst performing economy. Turns out Luxon / Willis were only just warming up, they had work to do to make it even worse, but through bloody minded stupidity they got there folks.

At least Liz Truss got fired for incompetence, but Nicola Willis is still here...

The fact that she still has a portfolio after the $671M ghost ferries debacle still blows me away. 🤯 #nzpol

Really good summary about the state of our economy from @clrenney.bsky.social Something needs to change to get the economy going again. Otherwise it’s just insanity: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQgR... #nzpol

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

The NZ economy SHRANK 3.7% in 2 years!

Utterly ridiculous. We're a giant fruit basket, cow farm and font of renewable energy sources in a time of rising commodity prices. You would have to be completely incompetent to fuck this up so badly *listens to earpiece* just a moment I'm hearing that the government IS completely incompetent

Isn’t it shocking that Russia a country running fully on war and under heavy international sanctions is STILL doing better economically than NZ? #economicvandals #nzpol

Worse than the economists and monetary policy purists predicted And that wipes the 0.8% growth of last quarter plus some more Means we are back at -2% GDP over rolling 12 months BACK ON TRACK NATIONAL?

Australia GDP up 0.6% in Nicola Willis' "global uncertainty" world. Get a new excuse. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/e...

“Court of Appeal has been hearing the most significant challenge yet to the police's widespread and growing use of the technology - can call up any vehicle's movements caught on CCTV within the system, over the last 60 days.” -“ lawyers say -far too loose - and dangerous to democracy “ #nzpol

I'm not sure more concerts at Eden Park is going to turn this around.

From before the announcement (earlier this morning), the Reserve Bank expectation was -0.3%, and of the major banks 3/5 expected it to be worse with a -0.4% or -0.5% (The NZIER was also quoted, as an outlier, as forecasting around 0% for the quarter). The announced plummet was -0.9%.

It is wild that oil and gas are still framed as "affordable and reliable"

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly) 🧵quick thread www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/6

$500bn is roughly equivalent to annual global investment in solar PV.

#nzpol What the poster says.

I can't find the Casey Costello corruption news on front page of any media but RNZ. That's been the case from the start. Also, this isn't the first time she's been found acting contrary to the law. The Chief Ombudsman found the same last year & not one journo is chasing this ex TPU Chair anywhere

Today from The Detail: With a bill that would have encouraged more durable products gone, it's feared NZ may become the dumping ground for cheap, unrepairable goods.

Small and large #nuclear reactors need same thickness of concrete shielding to shield radiation; large reactors cheaper per megawatt, #SMRs make less energy from same amount of fuel. And so on ... www.newscientist.com/article/2496...