Robert Llewellyn

Just posted a little thought piece about ANGER. READ IT! Oops, sorry, please read it if you want to, no pressure. llewellyn.substack.com/p/anger-is-e...

As a white man in my 70’s I approve this message.

Just out, a little drive in a little car in little streets in old London Town. With the delightful Renault brand CEO Fabrice Cambolive. youtu.be/Ht88k-1Cva4

@yellowdotstudios.bsky.social made this, very appropriate for todays gas liberation news www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJyQ...

I can barely be assed to criticise gas extraction at the modest Jackdaw field in the North Sea. It's tragic that the current administration listened to the wonderful, caring people from the fossil fuel industry. It won't make any difference to any of us, but £££ KERCHING for Shell and others

Very good news.

I had an excellent chat with @mliebreich.bsky.social for Everything Electric a while ago, and the podcast is out now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2q... It's fascinating big picture stuff: has the hydrogen hype finally died away (tl:dr: yes) and what's coming next in a cleaner more electrified world?

Roadster or Twingo? A journey through the emergence of the next generations of electric cars. llewellyn.substack.com/p/roadster-o...

Cleaning my rooftop petrol station to keep my car's fuel at $0.00 per litre. #PriceFixing

Okay. It’s not the Roadster but I’m very happy to have a drive in this cutie. #Twingo

Interesting difference between Bluesky & Threads this morning. My Bluesky feed is livable cities, cycling, renewable energy, reports about racist reform tossers etc. Threads is about 80% Tesla Roadster reports with a bit of renewable energy in Africa and President Obama speaking in Manchester

For some spooky reason on the day Tesla finally launched the Tesla Roadster (due 2029 - $250,000 deposit) I'm having a little drive in the Renault Twingo (due now, £17,000). No. Wait. I'm not saying the Roadster isn't an amazing machine, it is, and the engineers behind are world class, they are.

I’m making a prediction here. There will be some news about the new Tesla Roadster appearing soon. I have no inside information. However I will just be discussing it on The Times radio breakfast show tomorrow morning. 

40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...

My quick roundup of interesting developments on display at the Paris Motor Show youtu.be/ZwwzF04GMPY

Sometimes you meet someone one time and you never forget them. I had that privilege in 2014. R J Mitte was such a delightful young man with a beautiful spirit. Very sad news about his passing.

Tomorrow I will go for a ride in this fully self driving capable Xpeng LO3. I won’t be driving. Just sitting. Relaxed. 😬

Me pondering the long term benefits for meat sack humans like us when ‘female’ bipedal robots start to become commonplace

Interior of the new electric 2CV

I’m at the pre show launch by Stellantis, Paris motor show. The 2CV is clearly the star of the event, but this Alpha Romeo Cuorerosso isn’t scruffy.

Very difficult to get near the 2CV. Clearly very popular

Some of you will have seen the new Citroen 2CV already. I’m at the launch and I think it looks great. Smaller, lighter, electric and really not expensive

It's quite simple, when the weather is like this, it just means we burn way less expensive, imported gas to keep the lights on. One day it will also mean our electricity is MUCH cheaper #breakthelink

Just posted a fluffy, apolitical post from a pre internet/social media/AI era where, no wait, not everything was better. In fact it was mostly rubbish, but I had a funny dog. llewellyn.substack.com/p/ruffage?r=...

I could not believe whay I saw. This film is truly extraordinary. No AI, okay, my voice is in it for about 15 seconds but don’t let that put you off. If you get a chance to see it, grab it with both hands.

I just thought I'd say hi as I'm passing. For someone who is four 4 years beyond current retirement age, and I'm not complaining, but I have never, in 70 years, been this busy. I like it, but even among all the frantic activity, I go out and look at the sky. It's worth doing if you can.

I met Jeffrey Archer once. We had the same literary agent. He was terrifying. If we really are ruled by lizard overlords, he was definitely one of them.

I will be at Caper books in Oxford this evening talking Red Dwarf, Scrapheap, Everything Electric and most importantly books. Do come along if you're in the Oxford area. checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

For the first 5 years of Fully Charged Show (Everything Electric) a common YouTube comment was 'Battery electric is dud, the future is hydrogen.' I never hear that now. To understand why, listen to Prof Helen Czerski in discussion with the amazing Michael Liebreich www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2q...

Anyone in the Oxford area, or in Oxford. This coming Tuesday I'm appearing at the lovely Caper Bookshop in east Oxford. Talking Red Dwarf, Scrapheap, books, electric cars and general nonsense. It might be fun. Come along. checkout.square.site/merchant/ML2...

Timelapse of the big @pragmacharge.bsky.social hub we built in Valencia - Europe's biggest with 50 bays. Now operating along with a smaller hub in Felixstowe - 48 more hubs to go by 2030. #NoMoreDiesel #TimeToElectrify #ElectricFreight #EuropeRising #PragmaCharge

Why is it possible to pay around 14p per kWh for electricity from a very rapid charger in France when we pay between 60 to 95p in the UK? Asking for a friend

I recently drove a PeeHEV. WTF! I did a little scrawl about it here. llewellyn.substack.com/p/peehev?r=o...

A bit of news, a bit of background and a petite pinch of ranting. It's all in Almost Breaking News on the Everything Electric tech channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j1N...

Just been sent a total pro fossil fuel non story from the ABC in Australia. Saying you should keep your car fuelled during bush fire season so you can get away. Fair enough. Then there's a picture of a hybrid petrol car with some fire damage . . from a bush fire . . which they describe as 'an EV'

I wrote a little thought piece about one of my teaspoons. It led down a very deep hole where we dig up iron ore. llewellyn.substack.com/p/dug-up-or-...

After the electric Ferrari Luce, comes the Bentley Torcal. Built in the UK, from the ground up as a 100% electric luxury SUV. OK, I know we need smaller, lighter, cheaper cars, but every now and then something a bit spesh turns up. And this is proper spesh. youtu.be/yPaiXXcBzrc

I’m currently driving the BYD Seal 6 touring DMI. It’s a plug in hybrid which, I’ve discovered can only charge at 7 kW. However when I started this trip, it had 720 miles range. But I’ve had to buy petrol for the first time in 12 years. #shock.  On Everything Electric soon.

Everything we use is dug up or grown. In this fascinating and optimistic podcast I learn how one company, Fortescue, is digging up gigatons of iron ore and will soon do so without burning any fossil fuel. Deffo worth a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvKc...

Remembering someone very special. A fleeting friendship remembered. llewellyn.substack.com/p/sign-langu...

10 years ago electric vans were, well, a bit embarrassing. Too expensive, not much range. Now, only a fool would buy a new diesel van. (In case you don't know, a 'tradie' is the Australian for white van person, because anyone can drive a white van yeah.) #woke 😜 youtu.be/4_hntrkW9MM

How incredibly shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Something not created by AI, a short, relaxing moment of rain in woodland. That's it, no drones, zombies, or political point scoring. Just rain falling on leaves.

There are a great many new, smaller, cheaper electric cars being launched this year. This is a highlight. The MG4 Urban. Freshly presented to you from Sydney Australia by the delightful Elliot Richards youtu.be/76l_zJsFj5U

VW are under a lot of pressure, but they have not been sitting around whining. They have pulled out the stops to make a better, smaller, VW Polo. I went for a drive in it. youtu.be/Zq5-mwvhRLw

This might be a very popular car. Whatever it is, it's a very important car. The Audi A2 is back, it's a bit bigger but it's 100% electric youtu.be/n6JjOnVUfTE

Out now! The new all electric Audi A2 youtu.be/n6JjOnVUfTE

Anyone who remembers the original Audi A2 might be interested in an episode of Everything Electric cars arriving on the old YouTube at 11am, today. This is the old one. I say nothing more. #embargo

A total of 28,063 electric cars were newly registered in the UK in August. This represents an increase of 27.7 per cent compared with the same month last year and means that BEVs accounted for 29.8 per cent of all new passenger car registrations last month. (Courtessy of SMMT)

‘Journalism’ at its most dumb and desperate. A car on a beach. So what. An electric car on a beach. Wow! Now that’s a massive front page mega story.