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July EV news archive electricvehicle.life/news/2026/20...

electricvehicle.lifeJuly 2026A fuel-price crisis emerges as the dominant driver of Australian EV demand, with electric vehicles approaching a quarter of new car sales, purchases occurring roughly every 77 seconds, and used EV sales also hitting records. Charging infrastructure expansion is a major secondary theme, covering a major retailer's rollout of chargers across dozens of stores, an expanded pole-mounted charger network in Victoria, boosted Tesla Supercharger capacity, and Europe's charging network outpacing EV sales targets. China's growing dominance of the global EV industry recurs repeatedly, raising questions about vehicle safety standards, Australia becoming a dumping ground for unsellable models, and Chinese consumers adapting EVs for road-trip camping. Commercial and fleet electrification also features prominently, with a Queensland-built electric truck entering production, a large supermarket-linked truck rollout, and a new international airport running its ground support almost entirely on electric equipment. Policy debate continues around road user charges and updated home charging tax rates, while manufacturer news spans a more affordable electric van, refund commitments after a vehicle mix-up, and ongoing customer compensation issues at another brand.

Using my Agent skill to easily add standard.site attributes to a Hugo blog, for a Bluesky extended article card github.com/halans/integ...

standard.siteStandard.site - One schema. Every platform.Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.

Available here github.com/halans/integ...

github.comGitHub - halans/integrating-standard-site-hugo: An agent skill to add the necessary at-proto standards.site plumbing to a Hugo blog.An agent skill to add the necessary at-proto standards.site plumbing to a Hugo blog. - halans/integrating-standard-site-hugo

What is standard.site? Right now, if you write a blog post on one app, and your friend writes one on a totally different app, the internet doesn't always know they're both "the same kind of thing." Standard.site is a shared rulebook that says:

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"here's what a blog post looks like, here's what an author looks like, here's what a publication looks like" — so all these different apps can describe their posts the same way. It started when three publishing apps — Leaflet, pckt.blog, and Offprint — teamed up

... to build a shared format for things like blog posts, articles, and newsletters, on something called the AT Protocol (the same network that powers Bluesky).