Jonathan Cullen

Ticket SNAFU at St Pancras station. Machine hadn’t printed out my return ticket; email confirmation of said purchase wouldn’t get me through the gate. Had to run with heavy bags to the ticket office. No use: had to pay £96 for a new ticket. Ran back with heavy bags. Train in question was a whole…

You pay fuel duty, why don’t billionaires? Last week I took over a petrol station in Essex to give regular people the chance to pay tax like a billionaire. At Jetrol, if you have wings on your car, your fuel is duty free. Fill up and sign the petition at jetrol.vip

Another flash flood in Nepal as the country is still trying to recover their dead from the last one. This is what climate change looks like now. My heart goes out to all the families suffering devastating loss in Nepal. 💔

How's your country's passenger car transition going?

#FlixBus has launched its first electric long-distance line in Central Europe 🚍⚡ "Started on 1st of October, FlixBus now connects Vienna and Bratislava with electric buses. Not a pilot, but everyday operation from day 1!" eight Yutong T12E running up to 66 trips/day! elektrowoz.pl/transport/fl...

Global solar rankings as of 2025: Leaders: Total generation: China 🇨🇳, #2 US, # 3 India as Share of electricity generation.... Hungary ?? Per capita...Australia Our Electric World Order is here: pod.link/1884213852 @katemac.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Dear followers, if you drive an EV, please consider taking the Global EV Alliance’s yearly driver survey. Third edition. The more people take part, the clearer the results. globalevalliance.com/survey-2026/

Renault-Nissan do another identical launch, but this time, the Nissan is the better-looking model. www.ctrlaltrefuel.co.uk/blogs/you-ca...

Fully electric aviation has some major challenges (mostly: batteries are heavy and don't get lighter as they get used up) but I love the idea of decreasing aircraft emissions through a hybrid approach, perhaps as a step toward new, clever solutions for fully electric air transport in the future.

Peace for Ukraine. Stability in the Middle East. Climate action and a clean energy transition that powers our industries.

I know almost everything is terrible, but this year really could be world-historic in a good way. It’ll be several more years before it can be definitively called, but there are encouraging signs emissions really are peaking. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535893...

Need temporary power for an event? Chances are you’d currently hire a diesel generator, which is delivered by truck. But if that truck were electric, couldn’t it supply the power itself? A Dutch company has developed a 1 MWh / 200 kW truck that can power events power-truck.nl/blog/powertr...

Another common reply to my EV posting. “What happens to your ev when the power goes out? Umm. Keep drinking! But I guess a petrosexual should refuse a been poured using power from an EV as that would be hypocritical right? /s.

More H2 souffle. Wonder if the 20 odd H2 buses delivered to @translinkni.bsky.social will meet the same fate. Mind you, the Translink BEV transition is now spreading to NI regions outside of Belfast, so at least they got something right! @mliebreich.bsky.social

the cheapest car with single piece gigacast parts is the Deepal S05, they deleted over 160 parts and more than 1500 welds. its 120,000rmb or 17k USD. good luck, guys.

One of the more important maps of the decade ⚡️⚡️⚡️ By the Economist #alwaysbecharging

Britain is getting 29 new battery-electric trains. Built in Derby. And these aren’t little branch-line trains. The new TransPennine Express will be 121 metres long, carry around 300 passengers and travel at up to 110mph. Photo credit: Alstom Newt.

What a line! 😂

Brandolini's Law strikes again! @carbonbrief.org

Excellent collab

In case anyone was wondering:

It is probably one of humanity's greatest strokes of luck that China does not have any major oil reserves

The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.

Car makers need to finally start acting like climate change is real. So do car reviewers.

In a first of a new series of videos, our very own @graeme_cobb talks us through some of the best EV deals available at the moment. 🤓 Take a look! 👇 youtu.be/kxPP8gjKES0?...

Out with the old, in with the new. MX-30 has a few but notable shortcomings. Served me well for 3 yrs & has a new home in Dublin. The B10 has 2x battery size and 4x DC charging speed and is outstanding value for money. What's that on the bonnet? @ctrlaltrefuel.bsky.social. 1st brew in the office...

What do we make of the new Audi A2? 👍👎? Remarkable range and efficiency promised. Price as yet unknown Photos credit : CocheSpias

The Bayeux tapestry is the 7-Up of knitting. (Sentences I never thought I'd write, number 84,738) www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Vietnam's own Vinfast is the main driving force behind a very strong shift to battery-electric cars in the country, which reached 51% of sales in the first seven months of this year. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?co...

⚡️🚗 Electric car registrations surge in August and have been taking a steady and increasing chunk of the market at the expense of petrol and diesel registrations. I summarise it here with a few thoughts thrown in, too 👇 Graeme www.ctrlaltrefuel.co.uk/blogs/new-ev...

In country after country we start to see EV sales up and ICE down. The lines cross in an X typical for transitions. Norway in 2019. Sweden and Nepal in 2023. Denmark and Singapore in 2024. Belgium and the Netherlands in 2025. Finland is crossing now. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in...

Absolutely mad that a country that has basically limitless PV potential, and lots of houses with parking (I think?) hasn't been an absolute slam dunk for EVs. But, does go to show, throw in the subsidies for PV and especially massive home battery systems, and EVs naturally follow.

Sci-fi arrives on London’s streets as Wayve is the first to launch its public-paying robotaxi fleet in collaboration with Uber. Graeme www.ctrlaltrefuel.co.uk/blogs/not-dr...

1/ The Connected Vehicle Security Act frames Chinese EV competition as a security and unfair-trade problem. That framing assumes US auto decline is being done to the industry, rather than coming from problems the industry hasn't fixed on its own. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/b...

If you care about climate change, please study this chart. It’s a breakdown of where our warming pollution actually comes from. And it gives us our marching orders — to cut these emissions to zero as quickly as possible!

Another banger.

Air con can heat and cool your home – so is it really the best of both worlds? My wife wasn't keen on A/C at our old house, so I went to see a much better install at my friends Tim and Kat's place (@timwaskett.bsky.social). Are they happy? How much did it cost? Any regrets?! youtu.be/MD-F4ZC1nh0

100%

I can't disagree with any of this, Jonathan. They really need to bung on a HP on top spec and make it an option on the others. *P

#Africa’s solar boom is spreading across the entire continent, with 36 out of 54 countries set for record solar installations in 2026 🌍☀️ 19 countries saw YoY growth of over 100%, including DRC 🇨🇩 (+544%), Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 (+282%) and Egypt 🇪🇬 (+176%) ember-energy.org/lat...

A remarkable stat: In the years before the Good Friday Agreement, about 7,000 Irish passports a year were being issued to people in Northern Ireland. Now the figure is 84,980.

Xiaomi Auto launches global website, social channels ahead of 2027 Europe entry Xiaomi Auto's international website says the brand will officially enter Europe in 2027, and it has opened inquiries for dealer and distribution partnerships. cnev.co/jTfqfDw 👇

Ray Of Hope In previous oil crises, we didn't have a different solution to oil Now we have available and affordable electric cars China is key to the solution A snippet from my interview with Robert Llewellyn @everythingelectric.bsky.social The full episode linked below

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Something I wrote in 2020 about the church of Dolly whttps://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20201204-how-dolly-parton-became-the-worlds-best-loved-celebrity

Now, Carney has set a punitive unit cap at <0.5% of Canadian car buyers eligible to purchase affordable Chinese EV, with Canadian EV sales down -40~50% in 2025, it's clear the goal is to keep Canadian EV adoption retarded at the behest of GM/Ford lobbying *as they continue to disinvest in Canada*. 🧵

I put 2500 miles on my e-bike commuting to the office in the last three years. Save on parking and never have trouble finding a spot, yards from my building. Same for concerts. Great investment.