Alex Pawlowski

Alex Pawlowski

@apawlows.bsky.social

Do sustainable car stuff for Kia in SoCal. UVA, UT alum. Rant about bikes urban planning and racecars. he/him

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!!!!! VW giving Rivian the cariad treatment in EU possibly...

Jose | RivianTrackr@riviantrackr.com

Reuters reports VW may roll its Xpeng-developed China software out to its mass-market cars in Europe, a move that threatens to sideline Rivian. VW declined to comment. riviantrackr.com/news/volkswa...

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There’s a debate in the meteorology/ climate community about how to visualize the 2026 El Niño. One method subtracts recent tropical ocean warming mainly due to climate change (relative RONI index) and one that simply visualizes the event with no correction…

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What you're seeing here is the equivalent of about 780 TWh of primary energy being saved without the global car fleet shrinking a single unit in the next 10 years. It's my best guess at what the distribution of global cars on the road will look like going forward.

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Weekday bottomless mimosa brunch spots gonna make bank in the Bay Area Thursday am.

Alexa Philippou@alexaphilippou.bsky.social

BREAKING: Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will be held Thursday at 12:30pm ET at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. It will be a double-header with the Atlanta Hawks’ game, which will be moved to 8pm.

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"In doing so, Audi and the VW Group agree with Trump's strategy to bring jobs to the USA with a trade war at the expense of Europe" 🚨🚨🚨 #alwaysbecharging www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/...

Felix Hamer • electricfelix@electricfelix.eurosky.social

"VW Group Works Council Cavallo sharply criticized the appearance of Audi CEO Döllner. "Several minutes full of racism, sexism, xenophobia, transphobia, contempt for democracy - & one of our top representatives takes the stage and actively assists the campaign" www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/...

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Yissss

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social

I know absolutely nothing about Lula except that i saw someone share a clip on insta of him in celebration kissing a trans woman politician on the cheek and oh my god is that a radical act for a politician in 2026 so lets fucking go

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NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Even on 100% gas power, heat pumps cut emissions by ~48% and EVs by about half. The authors of an “electrification doesn’t cut emissions” paper made a series of compounding mistakes and used misleading assumptions. Here's why. janrosenow.substack.com/p/heat-pumps...

janrosenow.substack.comHeat pumps and EVs cut emissions, even on a gas-only gridA widely reported paper claimed heat pumps and EVs deliver no carbon savings until the grid is clean. Here's why it's wrong.

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Lest we ignore: “89% are in counties where life expectancies is already below the US average and 40% of the population within 3 miles of these projects are in low-income households.” Unregulated industrial policy may be good for aggregate growth but also likely propels all inequalities

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

Texas remains a very nice example of what happens with unregulated energy production: you get a nice lovely surge of renewables and and even bigger and extremely-not-lovely surge of fossil fuels. earthjustice.org/feature/data...

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Americans have now spent $142 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1, enough to buy 361,000 homes at the September median price, enough to house over 900,000 people, due to the US war on Iran and other factors like limited output from Russia

You can drive a truck coast to coast without a drop of diesel. Soon enough you'll be able to do it even faster along the Smile

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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The next opportunity for unsettled weather across #SoCal will be about a week from now, as another Low Pressure System approaches the region. Long-range Ensemble Guidance is hinting at a strengthening Jet Stream during early November, so will definitely be keeping an eye on how this develops. #CAwx

Hell yeah they started service!

Justin Gerdes@justingerdes.bsky.social

"The world’s largest battery-electric ship, a 130-metre vessel made in Australian by Incat Tasmania, has officially started ferrying passengers – including cars and buses – between Argentina and Uruguay in South America." thedriven.io/2026/10/23/w... via Sophie Vorrath

The Vehicross is going to make a very good EV some day (whether an expensive conversion or revival retro new model)

Matt Hardigree@matthardigree.bsky.social

But, like, the Tacoma X-Runner! X-Terra! Vehicross! Very saucy cars, if you ask me.

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The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.

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if you ever write an article about a guy saying hes done with politics and then a month or so later hes making the largest political donation in history then you need to quit and find another line of work

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Just now, the EU wholesale natural gas price reached a new high since the US and Israel started their war against Iran: 94 €/MWh. That's about three times the price before the war. Good to know that ..

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The only thing drivers hate more than driving is the suggestion that sometimes they should not drive

Chicago Sun-Times@chicago.suntimes.com

A Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation confirms one driver's lament that it was "the worst traffic I've ever had to deal with." Worse yet, epic delays persist — a year after a three-year construction project ended and Gov. JB Pritzker promised “faster commutes.”

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from my experience living by a city vehicle yard, we need this in San Diego

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org

Exclusive: The Mamdani administration says it will dramatically expand an effort by his predecessor to install speed governors inside city-owned vehicles, rising from 1,000 today to 3,000, preventing drivers from exceeding the speed limit. buff.ly/kBp8XG2

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this is RAGBRAI erasure

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."