Stunning data on April car sales in China with fully electric vehicle market share jumping to 41.8% in April as fossil fuel vehicle sales “collapsed” All FF vehicle sales fell YoY incl all FF-electric hybrids BEVs +2.4% All hybrids -21.9% PHEVs -25.2% EREVs -11.2% Overall -21.5%

Get real: DeepWay delivered 8,020 electric semi trucks last year

Battery storage will change the global energy system forever. Battery pack price: down 45% in 2025, first time below $100/kWh Battery storage deployment: ~250 GWh, up 46% year-on-year

Accelerating PV and battery storage deployment could save the European Union €223 billion ($260.7 billion) in gas imports between 2026 and 2030 and reduce wholesale electricity prices by 14% compared with 2025 levels. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/05/e...

Renewables growth cut Spain’s electricity bills by 24.2% over the past two years www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/30/r...

Elon is so « relentlessly focused » on the EV transition that he invested at least $275 million in supporting the most anti-EV president in history and at the same time largely abandoned Tesla’s goal of accelerating the transition to EVs and sustainable energy in favor of robots and Robotaxis

Fab comparison. Nuclear is flat or modestly linear despite exponential expectations. PV is exponential despite flat or linear expectations. 🔌💡

Great example of continued bias in the energy forecaster/utility world. The "experts" have continually forecast significant growth for nuclear energy, which has remained flat. And they have continually expected renewable energy to stop growing, when the reality has been accelerated adoption

Overestimating nuclear and underestimating renewables … Nuclear is a way to spend billions today making no emissions reduction for at least a decade. - highly questionable in a transition where time is of the essence.

"We propose the concept of nuclear imaginaries to show that these assumptions are embedded into techno-economic visions of nuclear power development, which shape model assumptions and narratives.... Nuclear imaginaries may never materialize and remain in a hypothetical state for decades."

Really interesting paper detailing the “nuclear energy paradox” which shows the gap between the hype around nuclear and the reality of it. "The historic perspective helps to show that nuclear imaginaries may never materialize and remain in a hypothetical state for decades."

A long history of magical thinking on nuclear power But this time is different, right???

Interesting new article on “nuclear imagineries” and the “nuclear energy paradox” — a form of magical thinking that leads to consistent underestimation of nuclear energy cost and overestimation of its real-world impact www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy Giant Phallus-Shaped Iceberg Floating in Conception Bay Surprises Residents of Dildo, Canada Day to all those who celebrate.

Brought to you by the Republican Party — you know, the Party of “small government” and “deregulation”

Key Australian data: impact of renewables is to bring base price down, and batteries shave the top off peaks (its a double whammy) Why? Gas can't compete against cheap renewables - until there's a constraint Batteries mean there's no longer constraints

From #ScienceUnderSiege (by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly):

Fossil fuels fell to their lowest monthly share (47.6%), since at least the 1950s! Gas actually fell to 34.4% (not 34.8%) in March 2026. Gas fell from 39.4% in March 2023 to 34.4% in March 2026. Gas had a lower share in March 2025 than it did in March 2019. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Good morning with good news: US clean generation set two major records in March! RE (35.1%) generated more electricity than gas (34.8%) for a month for first time. RE & nuclear generated a record high 52.4% of US power in March. It was 3rd month ever of more than 50%. #energysky More follows

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Norway sold 12 petrol cars in February 2026. Out of 7,272 new passenger car registrations, 98% were fully electric. Just 67 diesel & 12 petrol cars were registered. Hybrids? Only 66 in total mostly plug ins. More in my new Substack newsletter coming out every 7 days. Sign up here: t.co/In5lBaF2ox

History will look at how a small number of rapacious and malicious plutocrats, with the full complicity of a thoroughly corrupt and intellectually bankrupt political party, caused the epic collapse of the greatest nation on the planet.

🚗⚡ March 2026 BEV registrations in Europe are soaring — best month ever Thread with highlights (source: ACEA) 🧵 🔥 March 2026: 344,064 new BEVs (ACEA) → 21.8% market share → +41.7% YoY

Battery prices falling 45% in one year while battery storage deployment grew 46% are more evidence of the enormous potential for batteries to enable cheap solar and wind energy power to displace fossil fuels 24/7/365

That’s a pretty picture for the future of renewable energy

Underappreciated point from @ember-energy.org’s annual electricity review — New solar generation in 2025 was, by itself, sufficient to displace 100% of the electricity that could have been generated by 100% of the LNG exports through the Strait of Hormuz last year

Battery prices falling 45% in one year while battery storage deployment grew 46% are more evidence of the enormous potential for batteries to enable cheap solar and wind energy power to displace fossil fuels 24/7/365

Underappreciated point from @ember-energy.org’s annual electricity review — New solar generation in 2025 was, by itself, sufficient to displace 100% of the electricity that could have been generated by 100% of the LNG exports through the Strait of Hormuz last year

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza. A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.

🇭🇺🇺🇸 Each of these photos gave Orban minus 2-3 points…

GUARDIAN: "Viktor Orbán is now speaking at Fidesz’s election night and he says the election result is “clear” as he concedes defeat." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Orbán concedes. #Hungary

Tisza now momentarily with a supermajority (135 seats). (This is a *live count* with 45.71% of the vote counted, not a projection. Some of the outstanding vote from abroad may be less horrific for Orbán.)

2/3 majority secured! #Hungary

37% of the votes counted, with 132 parliamentary seats projected for Tisza. It seems that a 2/3 majority (133 seats) is well within reach for Tisza. #Hungary

15% in and it’s an absolute route so far.

🇭🇺 Votes counted: 14.72%. Tisza - 125 seats, Fidesz - 65 seats, Mi Hazank - 8 seats.

🇭🇺 Hungarian elections Voter turnout stands at 66.01% as of 3:00 p.m. It is huge. The previous turnout record was set in 2002, during the second round of the then-two-round electoral system, when 53.59% of voters had cast their ballots by 3:00 p.m.

💥🇭🇺🗳️ WOW! 54.14% turnout by 1pm in Hungary’s historic election (vs 40.01% in 2022), where voters could end Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule. Massive participation, in line with independent pollsters’ predictions – who also predicted a massive opposition win. Polls close at 7pm.

I have cancer. mRNA technology is already being used to develop some of the next cancer cures. He’s condemning some current and many, many, many future cancer patients to early, preventable deaths.

If you haven't been following the rapid development of clean energy and electric vehicles, you will likely be pleasantly surprised when you start learning what is happening. Jan has been following for 20 years. Read his thoughts.

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Which lowers electricity prices, more renewables or more fossil fuels? More wind, solar, geothermal & hydro correlate with lower electricity prices worldwide and across the 50 states. More fossils, nuclear & biomass all independently correlate with higher prices. www.youtube.com/shorts/yI9vl...

The world added 814 GW of wind and solar in 2025, increasing the total installation of the sum of both by 24%, from 3,360 GW to 4,174 GW, in just one year. New wind in '25: 167 GW (new total ~1,300 GW) New solar in '25: 647 GW (new total ~2,900 GW) electrek.co/2026/03/19/t...

this (onion) article is nearly 12 years old "At press time, representatives from the world’s leading economies had signaled that they would continue to heavily rely on fossil fuels until they had something more than an overwhelming scientific consensus to go on."

Food for thought the next time someone says we can’t transition quickly from fossil fuels to renewable energy

Hit the nail on the head with this headline The Monkey Wrench Gang could have never dreamed of wreaking the havoc on fossil fuel infrastructure the Trump gang has unleashed