Also with a significant climate benefit: “When wet, peatlands, which are made up largely of undecomposed organic matter, can store huge amounts of carbon and act as a natural carbon sink. But when drained, microbial activity starts to decompose the organic matter and peat becomes a carbon emitter.”

'Mercer imagined a parent instructing the family’s self-driving car: “Go to the school so as to arrive by 3 p.m. Wait for little Betty to come out and then bring her home. Since I know there is no free parking near the school, just circle the block until she comes out.”'

What does a fleet of Buzzies get up to when they’re not out and about on the job? They charge and discharge their batteries and trade kWh on the energy exchange. I bet they're feeling really bullish on renewable energy!

What does a fleet of Buzzies get up to when they’re not out and about on the job? They charge and discharge their batteries and trade kWh on the energy exchange. I bet they're feeling really bullish on renewable energy!

🚘📈 Unsere aktuelle Marktanalyse von über 30.000 Online-Angeboten in Deutschland zeigt: Gebrauchte Elektrofahrzeuge sind kein Nischenprodukt mehr. 📄 Aktueller Blogbeitrag von @patrickploetz.bsky.social Plötz: www.isi.fraunhofer.de/de/blog/2026...

A project by the TSO and major DSO in Baden-Württemberg aims to investigate the flexibility of EVs without the need for a (German-style) smart meter. Participants with an EV and without a smart meter (i.e. 97% of German households) wanted:

Robotaxis are grabbing headlines, but autonomous vehicles that are owned, not shared, could dominate our self-driven future. That would be very bad news for cities, the environment, and anyone in a human-driven car. Me, in @bloomberg.com 🧵 (Gift Link)

The solution: Road pricing that addresses cars’ negative externalities —esp congestion. Want to deploy your AV as a robotaxi when you don’t need it? Feel free, but you’ll need to pay $$ for the slowdowns you impose on others.

This single shipload of electric vehicles from BYD will cut Australia's annual fuel demand by at least 6 million litres This is what genuine fuel security looks like - not tanks of diesel and rushed trade deals, but cutting our exposure permanently to overseas fossil fuel supply.

One in three cars in Norway🇳🇴 is electric⚡🔌. And in some regions, more than half of the cars are already electric: in Bergen and Oslo and the surrounding municipalities. By the time of the summer solstice, the country will have reached the milestone of 1 million EVs.

Interesting to see something like this only gathering momentum because of [checks notes] *bin fires*. Good, nobody likes a bin fire, but it's another example of where the green agenda often isn't enough on its own to cut through & drive action on a circular economy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

5 days left to apply for the @coe.int Democracy Hackathon! From 17–19 June, tech minds, designers and democracy experts across Europe will meet in Strasbourg to build new tools against online hate speech and to strengthen democracy. Apply by 5 June, 12:00 CET: democracyhackathon.coe.int

Het Openluchtmuseum valt buiten de zone, dus liefhebbers van oude techniek kunnen daar hun hart ophalen

It is encouraging to see that so many countries are making the transition from a 20% share of electric cars to 80% in just the average lifespan of a car (15–20 years)

Scania is launching a battery-electric version of its crew cab – suitable for the fire service and other emergency services www.scania.com/group/en/hom...

Assumed: We will always need gas peaker plants. No longer true. Assumed: Heavy trucking will never be electrified. No longer true. Assumed: Industrial electrification is impossible. No longer true. Assumed: We will always need fossil fuels and nuclear for baseload. No longer true.

“As in previous months, the figures are being buoyed by electric vehicles. Against a backdrop of soaring fuel prices, sales of these models have skyrocketed, rising by 92.7% in May!”

« Comme pour les précédents mois, le bilan est sauvé par les électriques. Dans un contexte de flambée des prix des carburants, les ventes de ces modèles explosent avec + 92,7 % en mai ! »

“A potentially important finding in my full deck, and one I think is genuinely new, is that a message explicitly connecting climate impacts with the rising cost of living moves climate salience up pretty markedly”

🤦 In de herhaling: de kwaliteit van de discussie over het net (en de kosten daarvan, en daarmee de tarieven voor het gebruik) in Nederland is te laag. Hier: de bijdragen van Tweede Kamer die de principes ter discussie stellen.

What great explanations! Make sure you watch this, bookmark it, and share it widely!

It is encouraging to see that so many countries are making the transition from a 20% share of electric cars to 80% in just the average lifespan of a car (15–20 years)

"Quietly, and with surprisingly little fanfare from the rest of the world, Australia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, proving what is possible with the right policies." www.theguardian.com/environment/... by @adammorton.bsky.social and @petrastock.bsky.social 🔌💡

My fellow car drivers in Berlin, look elsewhere, do not read 👇🏻

Anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism are twin crises. We must confront them together | Binairfer Nowrojee

„Elektromobilität dagegen wächst exponentiell und erfüllt Schumpeters Definition von »Innovation«, denn sie löst ein altes Problem auf neue, einfachere Weise und ist am Markt sehr erfolgreich. Wasserstoffautos dagegen haben »keinerlei relevanten wirtschaftlichen Effekt« – außer für den Steuerzahler“

Kolumne: Wenn deutsche Politiker von “#Innovation” reden, merkt man schnell, dass sie oft gar nicht wissen, was das ist. Es könnte lohnen, noch mal Joseph #Schumpeter zu lesen - und Clayton #Christensen, um auch “#Disruption” zu verstehen, die ruppige Schwester der Innovation.

The Dutch police are presenting the electric patrol cars which, following the completion of the trial period, are now set to be rolled out on a larger scale. It’s interesting to note what they mention in the video:

Regelmatig gaan ambtenaren op reis naar de VS en komen terug met de raarste ideeën, zoals dat je een kernreactor neer kan zetten binnen een paar jaar tegelijk met een datacenter. Een overheid met een tekort aan eigen kennis is kwetsbaar voor dit soort beïnvloeding en het doet me pijn dit te zien.

DEUTSCHLAND WIR SCHAFFEN DAS ⚡️⚡️⚡️ 400kW Autobahn charging at €0,39/kWh ADHOC #alwaysbecharging www.goingelectric.de/stromtankste...

An excellent map of German EV charging points that builds on the EU’s #AFIR requirement for operators of public EV charging points to share relevant data, such as location 📍, availability🚦, power level⚡️ and ad hoc pricing.

And to everyone who is wondering, “how could humans be causing more than 100% of the warming?” — it’s because, according to natural factors, the earth should be cooling right now. So our emissions are offsetting that cooling AND causing all of the observed warming. For more, watch:

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

esto es lo que pasa cuando entregas el país al coche: Un trayecto de poco más de 800 m en línea recta (menos de 10 min) es imposible porque hay una calle en la que a nadie se le ha ocurrido poner aceras, pasos de cebra o pasarelas. Como todos se mueven en coche, los aparcamientos son descomunales.

JUST DROPPED: For years I thought industrial electrification potential was limited. How wrong I was. Engineering studies point to 90%+. Long term scenarios support this. Technology is much further ahead than we think. Question is whether policy keeps up. janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...

As of the end of April, Norway's passenger car fleet was 32.9% battery electric (BEV). At current rates, BEVs will reach 50% by the end of 2029.

New study for the European Parliament's TRAN Committee: Pricing of E-Charging for Electric Cars and Onshore Power Supply in Ports: which I started reading with interest and then almost drowned in a stream that was on average only a hand’s depth deep

What if the trope of Europe's stagnating electrification is not true, actually? Why we may actually be living the electric revolution euractiv.com/news/the-ele...

EDF 🇫🇷 rightly regards smart charging as a logical part of an electricity contract and charging infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles

The electric revolution will not be televised

My latest at @quittingcarbon.bsky.social: California bolsters its grid and advances a plug-in solar bill, checking in on Australia's energy transition, the “Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0,” and more highlights from what I've been reading: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/what-im-read... 🔌💡

"A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study has estimated that six types of electricity-using equipment responding to dynamic electricity rates could reduce peak electricity demand in California by up to 8.75 GW by 2030." pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/05/26/s... via @willdriscoll.bsky.social 🔌💡

What a cool art project: for a whole week, there’s an ice rink in Amsterdam during these summer days – powered exclusively by surplus energy from the solar panels at the neighbouring Olympic Stadium. If there isn’t enough? Then the ice melts.

The Dutch police are presenting the electric patrol cars which, following the completion of the trial period, are now set to be rolled out on a larger scale. It’s interesting to note what they mention in the video:

Here's the BNEF PV forecast for 2Q 2026. Still 50.5GW of buffer for 2026, which can absorb a fair amount of small markets growing. We cut the China annual estimate by 11GW(DC) which makes a big hole.

Since people keep asking how much solar is benefitting from the Iran war: we just reduced our 2026 forecast to 640GW(DC) of installation, down 2% from last year. We increased forecasts for Egypt and Malaysia, and Nigeria etc may grow. But big markets are shrinking due to saturation.

Here, they compare the minimum and maximum MSP prices with the average ad hoc prices. Ouch! This could have been a good analysis if you’d done it specifically for each charging point, rather than using national averages.

New study for the European Parliament's TRAN Committee: Pricing of E-Charging for Electric Cars and Onshore Power Supply in Ports: which I started reading with interest and then almost drowned in a stream that was on average only a hand’s depth deep

Tragic: Sweden moves towards fewer bidding zones. What's next, Austria applies to rejoin Germany's unitary price area? www.di.se/debatt/nu-ta...

Back home from two weeks in China. Here's what I saw: www.linkedin.com/posts/hanser...