🆕 blog! “Petrol Stations 🆚 Car Charging Locations”
Journalists love context-free numbers - things that sound large and scary, but without any helpful information to allow you to judge their significance.
Here's a good example from a BBC article about Electric Vehicle subsidies:
There are around 1.3 million electric cars on Britain's roads but currently only around…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/petrol-stations-%f0%9f%86%9a-car-charging-locations/
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#car #ev #news
Nice article about growth in solar power. It is good to see the progress.
I am a big fan of both solar and EVs, both 4 wheel ones and two wheel ones. We need to get off fossil fuels, and the sooner, the better.
Elon: Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat.
BYD: Hold my baijiu
PS: This is clearly a stunt. No car company, BYD included, would make boat-like behavior a product requirement for a conventional road car. This is likely a specially-prepared car traveling on a submerged roadway.
Make no mistake. This is a USA automaker and oil company hit job on the independence and sovereignty of the Canadian economy.
They are trying to reverse the inevitable so they can continue their own businesses as usual for as long as possible.
It can't be allowed to happen. Canada is already lagging far behind other nations. Our Economy and our Society and our burning forests, will suffer if our government gives in to this pressure.
#CanPoli#CdnPoli#EV#Cars
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/zev-mandate-climate-1.7576456
Make no mistake. This is a USA automaker and oil company hit job on the independence and sovereignty of the Canadian economy.
They are trying to reverse the inevitable so they can continue their own businesses as usual for as long as possible.
It can't be allowed to happen. Canada is already lagging far behind other nations. Our Economy and our Society and our burning forests, will suffer if our government gives in to this pressure.
#CanPoli#CdnPoli#EV#Cars
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/zev-mandate-climate-1.7576456
this little EV build is hilarious
The Mobility House and Schneider Electric Unveil #Solar Charging Depot for Turlock Unified’s Electric School Bus Fleet https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/26/the-mobility-house-and-schneider-electric-unveil-solar-charging-depot-for-turlock-unifieds-electric-school-bus-fleet/#EV#California
A federal judge blocked the #Trump admin from freezing a $5 billion #Biden-era program to build a national network of #ElectricVehicle#ChargingStations. The ruling was a victory for a coalition of states that had sued over the order, arguing that federal agencies had unlawfully frozen the funds & halted approvals for new charging stations, depriving states of critical resources & damaging the growing #EV industry.
#law#Climate#FossilFuels
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/us/trump-news/2144bc8e-5e5f-5c81-852e-70c1cc33316a?smid=url-share
The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos
"If you haven’t seen the leaks and the reports of weirdly wrapped trucks hiding in plain sight, the Slate Truck is the first product from Michigan-based Slate Auto. Think 'American kei truck' and you’re not far off. It’s a machine designed to be extremely basic, extremely customizable, and extremely affordable."
@verge, 2025
https://www.theverge.com/electric-cars/655527/slate-electric-truck-price-paint-radio-bezos
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