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I’m a big ESG nerd. ❤️ ⚡️🚗, 🪴, 🐕, and anything that helps folks live a more sustainable life. Let's focus on what we can do, today, to mitigate climate change! I've spent 4 decades on 🌏, and the better part of 3 driving 🚗🔋⚡️. Lets help folks upgrade
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It's going to be pretty hilarious to compare how this sells to the Jag and Caddy half-🫏 💩
Like Mark's book says, still no miracles needed. We have everything we need to address climate change and don't need to be focused on carbon capture or new nuclear and certainly not new fossil fuels at this juncture, just all in an renewables + bess and electrification.
New data confirm carbon capture & direct air capture are useless opportunity costs At the capture rate (0.59 MTCO2/y) from new CC/DAC in 2026 where the CO2 isn't used for EOR, it will take 81,000y to build enough CC/DAC to capture the current CO2 emis from fossils & land-use change (47,200 MTCO2/y)
Yes, water wet, sky blue. Tesla is the biggest advocate for Chinese cars in Canada, and the super majority of Chinese cars in Canada are Teslas. Anytime someone tells you it's Tesla, and not GM and Ford, who are lobbying to keep Chinese cars out of Canada, just tell them they're stupid.
Tesla appears to be preparing to sell US-built Model 3s in Canada again
Lolz Honda, so f*cked. Asian market production: Jan -22.8% Feb -34.9% Mar -18.7% Apl -32.1% May -22.9% Jun -45.1% Jul -41.1% Aug -43.6 August was Honda's first YOY decrease in prod in 9 months Prod outside Japan 8th *consecutive* month of YOY dec Worldwide 7th *consecutive* month of YOY dec
Honda and Asian market mentioned, let's check on things... Jesssussssss. Honda Aug Asian production down nearly over 40% (-43.6%) in Asia due to total collapse in China (-71.7%). Global Q3 numbers are not going to be good with Asia imploding due to Honda's inability to engineer competitive stuff.
These <30k EVs could be on sale in the U.S. if we sold for the interference GM/Ford keep lobbying for against globally competitive EVs and electrification in the U.S. market.
This is RE the CATO Institute's downright bizarre - strangely timed with the midterms - Musk Astro-turf piece. I don't give a flying f*ck what someone did when they're pulling food from millions of children globally, killing billions in renewable and electrification, working to undermine elections
We're reaching the point where grid operators are turning off renewables because of nuclear. We need to stop new nuclear and retire existing as soon as feasibly possible. New nuclear is a no go on cost/time, existing consumes hundreds of millions a year and stunts the benefits of renewables. Old 💩
The lesson here is that when you have large amounts of WindWaterSolar (mostly wind, solar but also geothermal, and existing hydro) on a grid, you --match demand with supply better than a base load plant and -- provide base-load electricity that can exceed that of the base-load plant.
Pretty wild how far and fast Lexus has fallen due to Toyota's ineptitude. LS cancelled for the sh!t show ES, and an updated RZ barely hitting 300 miles and still needing 30 min to charge in 2027? With that Yaris interior? Insert Morgan freeman good luck.
The 2027 Lexus RZ starts at under $50,000 and offers over 300 miles of range
My big issue with keeping geriatric nuclear capacity around is the cost to maintain and fuel it (~$200-300M *per GW* *per year* est in U.S.), over a 5 decade life cycle you could build 10-20x the renewable and BESS generation as the fueling/maintenance costs alone. Add construction close to 50x.
Or, over a 5 decade lifespan of that reactor, 10-20 GW of additional renewable generation added. That's why all the lobbying for nuclear, SMR and hydrogen transport.
BTW, this is SUPER fun, U.S. large scale solar and renewable viewer. We're already at 50% more solar than nuclear in U.S., and that ratio's increasing. energy.usgs.gov/uspvdb/viewe...
"The one-time, 5% tax would apply to the net assets of California residents worth $1 billion or more at the end of 2026. Rather than income or real estate, it would be levied on assets such as publicly traded stocks, bonds, private business interests, intellectual property and art." So awesome.
This is really the problem with U.S. press being owned by a handful of billionaires, zero context. U.S. EV sales are *increasing* with a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs and removed subsidies, just as we've seen post subsidy removal in most places, like Germany, only real anomaly is Canada's decline...
This is really the problem with U.S. press being owned by a handful of billionaires, zero context. U.S. EV sales are *increasing* with a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs and removed subsidies, just as we've seen post subsidy removal in most places, like Germany, only real anomaly is Canada's decline...
Yet we see story, after story, after story neglect to provide context, to tell folks Americans are the second biggest EV buyers of any country on earth aside from China, and are *increasing* EV sales despite domestic efforts - spurred by nefarious lobbying to stop them More folks calling this out 💪🏽
This is really the problem with U.S. press being owned by a handful of billionaires, zero context. U.S. EV sales are *increasing* with a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs and removed subsidies, just as we've seen post subsidy removal in most places, like Germany, only real anomaly is Canada's decline...
Guy really hits the same point I keep making, if countries make it harder for globally competitive and affordable battery electric vehicles to be sold in their market, and don't deploy globally competitive levels of charging nationally, and kneecap subsidies, marketshare takes a hit, water 💧, sky 🌤️
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A new peer-reviewed estimate of what data centres will pump out in climate pollution - Between 300 to 1,300 mtco2-e per year, by 2035 (IEA scenarios) Mckinsey scenarios: - 3,000 by 2035 - 30,000 by 2045 arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14421 limited.systems/articles/ai-...
“Zelfs de uitstoot volgens de conservatieve IAE-scenario’s met beperkte groei ligt in de orde van grootte van 1 GtCO₂e per jaar en is onaanvaardbaar in het licht van het wereldwijde koolstofbudget”, schrijft [professor Wim Vanderbauwhede] in zijn paper. 48hrs #Climate #AI gift link:
One of the reasons I'm not a fan of market share shaming countries when their numbers are improving is because of the potential that's there. Mexico is a great example, minute EV market share, but with tons of Chinese options and Chinese manufacturing, LOTS of potential as networks are built out etc
The U.S. is second only to China in EV sales, year after year after year. We are blessed with options that meet most Americans needs for over 1/3 less than the average price paid for a new car and 20-30% less on the used side. Now's the time to upgrade for an EV if you're in the market for a vehicle
New from me: The US has faced a higher cost than any other country from the global Hormuz oil shock, with the crisis adding $160 billion to its fuel bill — or $471 per person on average — despite being the world’s largest oil producer.
Ford fell behind BYD globally last year Ford fell behind Hyundai in the U.S. and this year isn't over Ford EV sales are down in the U.S. -67.5% Ford Mach-e sales are down in the U.S. -59% Is there a car company this size being run worse than Ford? These half-🫏 changes won't move the needle on 🥀🔋🚙
"The concept of the State Chancellery now provides for creating the conditions under the umbrella of a new company to develop the plant "into one of the most competitive and innovative automotive locations in Europe". So, sell it to a Chinese carmaker?
“Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions”
It'll be a good litmus test to see if attitudes in China have changed in a year since NIO cancelled their semi-solid pack due to no demand - no real demand in china for silly range specs due to the equally silly price tags that have accompanied them - granted that was a 50% larger pack before.
GWM’s Svolt began mass production of 100 kWh semi-solid batteries. Such a pack is built on the 900V high-voltage system, supporting 6C charging.
>650 GW of solar was deployed 🌎 in '25 ~3 GW of nuclear was deployed 🌍 in '25 The faster we stop new nuclear and shutter existing, the more solar we can deploy!
Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Korea: we’re spending equivalent $747,000,000,000 on renewables and electrification Japan: best we can do is ~€624,000,000 nationally for EV subsidies, lolz
Surprising no one.
South Korea is betting big on clean energy with an ambitious plan to cut fossil fuel dependence. The plan would add 100 GW of renewables by 2030, accelerate EV adoption and cut emissions from heavy industry, all while improving energy security.
Glorious!
Republicans are the greatest threat America faces.
Disaster for laggard Japanese carmakers Breath of fresh air for Japanese consumers It's so awesome, China bringing great, globally competitive, affordable EVs to markets mostly neglected - especially by the big three anti-EV villains Toyota/GM/Ford.
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