Another sensible-sounding review of the VTT test of the Donut Lab solid state battery. BLUF: the jury is still out. electrek.co/2026/02/23/d...

As usual, Electric Viking provides some of the best coverage of the Donut Lab claimed revolutionary solid state battery. Now commenting on Donut's idonutbelieve.com website. This piece was published before the VTT report. Wonder what the viking thinks now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn9R...

Tesla has secured a second deadline extension from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the agency’s investigation into traffic safety violations committed by vehicles operating with “Full Self-Driving”. /1

I'll consider the market to be working efficiently when Tesla files Chapter 7.

The sales of non-hybrid gas and diesel cars are witnessing a stunning collapse in Europe.

1/7 Reuters: "China's biggest solar firms shed nearly one-third of their workforces last year, company filings show, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses." www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Donut Lab Responds To Doubters With Verified 7-Minute Solid-State EV Battery Charge An all-electric motorcycle from Verge will be the first vehicle to launch with this battery Donut Lab’s solid-s... #news #Batteries #Charging #Electric #Vehicles #Tech #Video Origin | Interest | Match

The Donut solid state battery folks have been silent for a while but now they have launched this video and the idonutbelieve.com website in response to the skeptics. In three days, the first independent test is to be posted there... Exciting times! m.youtube.com/watch?v=uiOm...

The company claims to have the world's first production solid-state EV battery. Doubt persists, but an independent test is coming soon.

This is the state of the so-called AGI for you. You know, when the Anthropic CEO talks about the thousands of geniuses or Jensen Huang talks about AI just inventing new tools instead of learning how to use existing ones. #EpicFail #OpenAI

The EU is one of the world’s most fossil-import-dependent economies. In 2023, imports met 58% of its energy demand -near pre-crisis levels - leaving consumers exposed to price shocks. That’s far above China (24%) & India (37%); only Japan (84%) & South Korea (80%) rely more. Graph @ember-energy.org

Greenwashing and grift are cousins with a common ancestor. The tactic of hollow, empty and cynical promises repeatedly made and emitted by a person who is never held to account by those who are meant to hold people to account is shared between both. The same shit as dodgy net zero targets, CCS

IRENA data show cost of key solar supply chain/manufacturing costs/components will fall PLUS solar efficiency and power increase thru 2030. Solar gets cheaper to make & more efficient! Solar & batteries become more competitive vs. gas & coal generation. www.irena.org/-/media/File... #energysky

Nordhaus labels ~3 °C warming “optimal” because it costs only ~2–3% of global GDP, roughly the size of the entire African economy! The implication is stark: #climate damages on the scale of wiping out Africa can be treated as an acceptable cost of continued fossil fuel use. 🧵

Reasons for climate optimism – part 21 Renewable energy has become much less costly, and its rapidly growing share in energy production will soon make it the dominant source of energy consumed globally.

Using hydrogen as a fuel to replace natural gas has been strongly promoted by vested interest groups. Many including myself raised serious concerns about scalability, cost and efficiency. The more time passes, the more it looks like those concerns were well-founded.

I bought all seven, just to own the libs www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

This @nytopinion.nytimes.com op-ed on rare earths repeats a misleading story: that China dominates these industries mainly because of lax labor and environmental standards. It sounds intuitive, but it’s analytically wrong in ways that matter for policy. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

"We find that the principal drive for global warming acceleration began in about 2015, which implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury" - James Hansen et al. mailchi.mp/caa/another-...

A little more than two years ago, I started off as an independent researcher. So far, connecting science and policy has worked remarkably well.

“The scale of solar being deployed in such a short period of time has not been seen, I think, anywhere ever before.” This is my take on solar adoption in Pakistan covered by National Geographic. education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/pow...

"The country is continuing to add significant coal-power capacity, with a record 95GW added to the grid last year and another 291GW in the pipeline,meaning units that have been proposed, are actively under construction or have already been permitted."

The numbers paint a grim picture. Norway’s 88% collapse is particularly striking given it was one of Tesla’s few bright spots in 2025. The Netherlands (-67%) and UK (-57%) are experiencing similar freefall. Source: electrek.co/2026/02/04/t...

Tesla’s struggles in Europe have reached the UK, with January 2026 registrations plunging more than 57% year-over-year to just 647 vehicles, according to new data. The decline was the steepest among automakers and far exceeded the 6.4% drop in overall UK battery-electric vehicle sales for the month

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

🇳🇴 Norway's PM Støre: It rings completely false when the American president stands and says that we have given everything to NATO and NATO gives nothing in return. It is wrong. It is plain wrong. The collective security is not a charity. It is made out of self-interest.

Reasons for climate optimism – part 20 In many countries where climate policy is lagging, sub-national actors are taking the lead, helping catalyze progress on the national level (see figure from IPCC AR6 WG3 report).

Last year, almost every new car sold in Norway, the nature-loving country flush with oil wealth, was fully electric. In prosperous Denmark, which was all-in on petrol and diesel cars until just before Covid, sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) reached a share of 68%.

Russian drones hit railway facilities seven times in the past 24 hours, including infrastructure at the Synelnykove station, Svyrydenko said. Due to security risks, rail traffic restrictions between Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia remain in place. #Ukraine

Once best known for large-scale, state-backed infrastructure loans, Beijing’s overseas energy engagement has been shifting, writes Betty Wang in an op-ed for New Energy World magazine🔋🇨🇳

The "AMOC is no longer a distant #climate scenario but a national & global security risk European defence analyses & new scientific research come to the same conclusion: this is a form of systemic risk that governments must plan for now" - Prof. Rockström & Iceland's Climate Minister Jóhannsson 🧵

"The price surge means silver now makes up about 26 per cent of the cost of making a solar module, compared with just 3 per cent three years ago, according to Jenny Chase, lead solar analyst at BloombergNEF." @solarchase.bsky.social Just what these players need. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Quick vid on @globalenergymon.bsky.social's new gas plant tracker update: US planned gas increased 3x, 1/3rd of that is JUST dedicated, off-grid gas plants for data centres! @mrchrisadams.bsky.social's new term applies perfectly here: PETROTECH globalenergymonitor.org/report/betti...

Can Tesla Survive China’s EV Onslaught And Musk’s Rhetoric? Brands such as BYD, SAIC (MG), Geely, Chery, and XPeng are flooding Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and South America with competitively priced, well-equipped electric vehicles. /1

Adoption of Electric Vehicles Tied to Real-World Reductions in Air Pollution, Study Finds cleantechnica.com/2026/01/26/a...

Tesla brings Cybertruck to Middle East amid US demand collapse 63 Cybertrucks were handed over at a launch event in Dubai’s Al Marmoom desert area. But let’s be realistic: the UAE and broader Middle East are tiny markets. This won’t offset the dramatic US sales decline.

Veteran fund manager George Noble says Tesla is the 'biggest stock market bubble of all time' The former director of the Fidelity International fund and founder of two hedge funds doesn't believe the narrative among bullish investors that Tesla is more than a car company. /1

/4 Part of Musk's narrative that Noble finds particularly worrisome is the claim that Tesla is more than a car company. Despite Musk's lofty claims about robotaxis and humanoid robots, the bulk of Tesla's revenue comes from vehicle sales, which have been declining for the past two years, Noble said

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

Reasons for climate optimism – part 19 Most countries have outlined general strategies that address unavoidable warming and have translated them into specific actions.

The IEA made a weird, kind of interesting, interactive graph. (Scroll down to the image of the globe and click one of the energy aspects below it and a dotted line will appear...). I haven't quite worked out for myself whether it is great or just quirky. www.iea.org/reports/worl...

Consumer Reports Ranked Tesla As The Least Reliable Used Car Brand Long Term. Shocker. flip.it/u4Cnl1

If events of the last few days, weeks, year are bothering you, get outside. I went for a walk and then pruned my lavender plants, and I touched down.

We should not fail to appreciate the extent to which the dollar's appeal (or lack thereof) is as much a political fact as it is an economic one.

This is the correct take. And what do we think will happen if (when?) the civil unrest in the US gets worse? It's simple. If you look like a political basket case, your currency becomes much less appealing.

How do you measure productivity? Let’s start by talking about the engineering obsession with quantitative metrics. You can easily measure productivity on an assembly line. The faster a car comes off the line at a given quality level, the more productive you are. 1/10

Good story from @jeremywallace.bsky.social on the tumult coming from China's glut of renewables and EV manufacturing which is roiling power and transport markets internally and internationally with some salutary effects for consumers. www.wired.com/story/china-...