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Hey David - I'm running for congress in Eastern WA and I'm advocating for a federal agrivoltaics cost-share program specifically for small and mid-size farms. Would love to come on Volts to talk policy mechanics if that's interesting to you. Cheers!

Inspiring

I suppose the main difference is that we never (knock on wood) turned right like the Midwest states have - and the grid build-out ensuring our "rust belt" era didn't last for very long clearly helped. (One Nation did make headlines here recently - but so far that's the right eating itself.)

Here's a good site (it gets updated each month). There's also the 2025 roundup published in Jan showing Tesla outselling BYD by 14% last year, versus BYD outselling Tesla by 52% so far this year.. thedriven.io/2026/03/04/a...

The underlying data is not available, but eg: autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/byd-on-... shows BYD selling more than half of all EVs in Australia in January.

Nice slogan.

That website is awesome. You can follow there Australia decarbonization efforts to fight against despair. So much happening there: electricity generation, crazy levels of solar & battery in homes, renewable microgrids in isolated communities, huge mining company going real zero by 2030 & much more