You lucky people! Episode 19 of our little podcast is out now! This week we talk about energy: Tariffs, energy price cap reduction, bi-directional chargers and ‘Guy Martin’s House Without Bills’ Love it if you could like, share, watch/subscribe 😊 youtu.be/N83JqNfjfjo?...

Driving electric is up to 4× cheaper than petrol. 100 km costs: ⛽Petrol: $22–$33 ⚡EV (home, 6pm): $5.90 ☀️EV (midday solar): $1.20 Same distance. Massive difference. Plus no servicing or oil changes. Around $4k saved every year —a family holiday instead of fuel bills.⚡ #Bettrification #EVs #Save

Since our home battery scheme launched in 2025, 100k+ homes installed systems like this. Each roof can: ☀️ Generate 15+ kW solar 🏠 Power the home 🚗 Charge the EV 🔋 Store excess energy in a 50 kWh battery Homes are becoming mini power plants. Tell me this isn’t the future. #Bettrification

Part 1 out now! Please share, like & subscribe 🤓 youtu.be/JWnFTaIIqdE?si…

Global EV incentives: ~$60–80B/year Fossil fuel subsidies: • ~$725B direct • ~$916B fiscal (OECD/IEA) • ~$6.7T including external costs (IMF) That’s 20× more support for fossil fuels, and 150×+ when full costs are counted. Yet EVs are the ones constantly called “subsidised.” ⚡ #Bettrification

EV share of the total vehicle fleet (2025): 🇳🇴 Norway 39% 🇩🇰 Denmark 19% 🇮🇸 Iceland 15% 🇸🇪 Sweden 14% Meanwhile the global EV fleet is only ~5.5% (90M vehicles). But that’s up 71× from just 1.27M in 2015. S-curves start slow… then they change everything. #Bettrification

I never know what Bin Day it is.

This thing is so much fun.

Stopped for an hour with the wheelie-bin at the @DorsetEVs meet and saw the v cool new Merlot 🍷 Renault 4 🥖. Lovely thing. Super comfy seats.

caselani.com/m/21-quadricic… This is erm, not cheap shall we say, but sure does make the Ami look good.

Oil is just ancient sunlight stored in plants and buried for 300 million years. Solar skips the geological middleman — not to mention the centuries of conflict and bloodshed around oil. ☀️ → ⚡ → 🔋 → 🚗 Faster. Cheaper. Cleaner. That’s the real energy transition. #Bettrification #EVs #Solar #BESS

Super interesting read this (fire started in an external 3rd party power pack being used in the vehicle (nothing to do with the car) HV battery did not ignite and remained intact & unaffected. As did the chassis. carnewschina.com

War again — and prices jumping with it. Madness that it's 2026 and the country is still beholden to fuel imports to keep the lights and heating on. If you're able to get solar/batteries, seriously consider it. Some energy independence using homegrown sun is a great thing. ☀️ youtu.be/T8G9HGSLGYk

This is a really interesting scheme. Get paid £1/kWh for your solar export during grid events. Super easy to set up & you don’t need to change ⚡️supplier or anything-but you do need a compatible inverter. Use my referral to sign up and receive £20 sign-up credit 🤓 vpp.axle.energy/landing/grid?r…

Met up with @spikebmth.bsky.social and Mrs Spike to have a look at the really impressive Hyundai Inster and had a drive. What a brilliant little car! And love the colour! Of course, Buddy the Ami was the star of the show 🤓

Since 2008, cost of #EV battery capability — measured as $ per kilometre of range — has collapsed by ~99%. Range rises 100 → 500 km Energy density rises 120 → 480 Wh/kg Costs collapse $1414 → $90 That’s the economic engine of #Bettrification. Disruption follows cost curves.

Your weekly episode of the CTRL, Alt, Refuel 20 minute podcast has landed on YouTube today at 16:00! Amongst other things, we talk about the ‘mighty’ Stellantis and others pulling back on making eVs. There’s also a little teaser ‘Easter Egg’ on my £200 Nissan Leaf purchase🤓 youtu.be/I_BXrWiOgjQ

Bonjour mes amis! Ça va? Tesla 🐶 still hates it 🤣

If I wanted to sit on 60 litres of explosive liquid & a hot metal box full of mini detonations, I’d join a demolition crew. I just want to get to the beach. Internal combustion: thousands of explosions per minute. But sure…tell me again which car is the fire risk. Stay safe in an EV! #Bettrification

‘Let me out!’ 🐢 🐌

The solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines exported from China in 2024 are set to cut annual CO2 emissions in the rest of the world by 1%, some 220m tonnes (MtCO2). www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Jaecoo was only launched in Oz a few months ago, and aleady they have hit 1000 orders for the J5, or the better cheaper EV version of the range rover. 400km range, dog and pet friendly interior, looks good! special deals for next 2000 orders. Every new EV on the road is one less petrol burner.

India adds 42.5GW solar in 2026 alone — more than the UK’s entire fleet. Solar now 135GW vs coal 219GW, rising 40–45GW/yr. By 2028 solar ~260GW, overtaking coal capacity. With BESS scaling, solar+storage undercuts coal. This is cost-curve gravity in action. #Bettrification #LFP #Solar #Wind #BESS

As always ev bus stories come along in 3s More excellent ev bus news of the day ! 34 battery-electric buses by BYD enter service in Verona - electrive.com share.google/YBuyQL60ZR5L...

Your weekly fix of ‘CTRL Alt Refuel’ podcast is here! This week in a pint-sized, episode, we answer you, the viewer’s questions. And then ramble on about other stuff like Volvos on fire and the new Ferrari eV, plus more. Please have a watch, like & subscribe. 🤓🙏 youtube.com/watch?v=X4vdeh…

She said “Make sure MY car is in the garage tonight!” I have followed those instructions 👀 (Excuse the mess. Been resurrecting that £200 LEAF)

Algorithm served me GV60 Magma and IONIQ 6 N content this morning and I’ve got to be honest, the orange is nifty but I couldn’t give a damn about a spicier GV60 - meanwhile I can’t wait for the IONIQ 6 N launch and to see trusted outlet reactions.

DONUT LAB Solid State - Charging Test Results 🔋 11C charging, 0-100% in 7.3 minutes ♨️ It also gets really HOT ...but it doesn't catch fire like a Liquid Electrolyte Lithium-ion Battery would 🏍️ Verge Motorcycle will be air cooled - I think they need more More tests coming soon. youtu.be/FAChh4qmg8s

To all the thermal runaway “EV fire experts”. #EV sales have surged 25× since 2016 while verified HV battery fire incidents remain broadly flat. That means the incident rate per EV has fallen by roughly 50%. Scale accelerates. Incidents plateau. The data doesn’t match the drama. 🔋📈 #Bettrification

It’s here! 🙌 Tesla 🐶 not too pleased.

CRACKERJACK!!! It's not Friday. It's not five o'clock, but we do have a cracker of an episode for you. We discuss the implications of next year's Chinese ban on flush or solely electronic door handles. Oh, and ToyWonta. Please have a watch, like & subscribe 🙏😊 youtu.be/X5qOr2-asyo

Hinkley Point C now expected to cost £49 billion.

Just did an interview on Talk radio in the UK. It was about the European car makers stopping ever making electric cars again because, as a caller said, 'No one wants electric cars.' Definitely not the 10 million EV drivers in the EU or the 1.8 million in UK www.forbes.com/sites/neilwi...

Jack was surprised that he was impressed with the Zeekr 7X youtu.be/LCGLBe26jnw

I've said it before and I repeat, these PHEVs should not be counted in any EV metrics www.theguardian.com/environment/... #DriveEV not #phev

to find leapmotor in pole position with tesla, that's kinda interesting #alwaysbecharging not all German charts are equal author: Frederik Monnet www.linkedin.com/posts/freder...

Please have a watch/listen/like & subscribe of our latest episode of the podcast. We have on the brilliant James Gee from Be.EV talking about their acquisition of Mer UK sites. 39p/kW rapid charging anyone? Please repost if you’re reading this or we’ll let Petchelli out! youtu.be/2X0E5GPAjW8?...

I've got the same setup, 10 kWh home LG ChemWall and 78 kWh IONIQ 5 and were I ever in an extended outage for a very long time, I'd segregate a few things to allow my setup to go even longer (weeks, if not months with SoCal sun).

Fortescue launched 14.5 MWh battery-electric locomotives in the Pilbara — that’s ~200+ Tesla packs worth of storage rolling through iron ore country. Heavy haul rail. No diesel. Massive regen on the downhill runs. This is industrial #Bettrification ⚡🚆

2025 EV Share of New Car Sales, Top 10 Countries 1 Norway 97% 2 Nepal 73% 3 Denmark 69% 4 Sweden 61% 5 Iceland 57% 6 Finland 56% 7 Netherlands 56% 8 China 53% 9 Singapore 47% 10 Belgium 43% EVs are now mainstream across much of the world. Not just an emerging technology. #Bettrification

🚨EV Lease Deal - Compact Family SUV🚨 Leapmotor B10 70 kWh ⚡️£164 pm ⚡️£1,967 initial payment (no fee) ⚡️or £245 pm & £245 deposit ⚡️5,000 miles pa (+ £32pm = 10k mls) ⚡️2 year lease only ⚡️Factory order ⚡️261 miles range (WLTP) leasing.com/main-dealers...

I did a 1,200km return trip in one day in my Tesla. No range anxiety. Just smooth, silent torque and autopilot calm. I charge at home. I save ~$10k a year in fuel + servicing. Meanwhile ICE drivers are in the rain staring at fuel boards emptying their wallets. #Bettrification #LFP #EV

☀️ India just had a record-breaking year for solar. In 2025, the country installed 36.6 GW of new solar capacity, up 43% year-on-year — with large-scale projects making up 81% of the total 🤯 It’s the first time India has crossed the 30 GW mark in a single year 📈

So, I just bought a Nissan Leaf. For £200. How bad can it be? Answers on a postcard please to ‘You’re an idiot….’

And suddenly #BeEV_Charging is a Top Ten Player with 2500+ plugs nationwide! Congrats to all involved! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ #alwaysbecharging #MOREPLUGS 🇬🇧 www.motortradenews.com/electric-veh...

The BYD Atto 3 Evo shifts to rear-wheel drive, gains a frunk and charges way faster for 2026.

@toyotausa Highlander goes ALL-ELECTRIC ⛽Grand Highlander remains with Gas/Hybrid 🔋2027 Highlander EV gets 270-320 miles EPA Range 💺 3-Row Crossover 🌎 Assembled in Kentucky so they need to promote its sales 🏭 In showrooms Late 2026/Early 2027

Okay, it’s bloody cold in North Wales, we are shooting a small electric car road trip all the way to Cardiff today. Limited range? City car up mountains? Not many chargers? We do it so you don’t have to.

The All New MG 4 Urban and Refreshed MG 4 - Confused? Well I’ve written an article to try and unconfuse the confused 👇 www.notaguru.co.uk/blog/the-ref...

Data kills the #EV battery myth. Modern #LFP batteries are engineered for 1–2 MILLION km. ICE drivetrains struggle to reach 1/5th of that before something expensive explodes — before the EV driver’s lunch. Still arguing from 2010? That’s dial-up thinking. #Bettrification🔋 afma.org.au/study-shows-...