David NicholsonOur @rivergecko twitter feed includes some of the UK electric car news but is also Clean Tech – Climate change Tech – EVs – Renewable Energy including wind and solar – clean trains and boats – air pollution – divesting from fossil fuels
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European year-to-date sales by brand compared to last year. 🇪🇺
Tesla is down 12% while legacy brands like VW, Toyota, BMW, Skoda... are growing.
Year-to-date in Europe, slightly more BEVs have been sold than last year, but the BEV penetration rate has dropped from 14.3% to 13.8%. 🇪🇺
Here you can see the adoption rate and development of the last three years per country.
Germany drops from 16 to 13%, dragging Europe down.…
I’m interested in non EV drivers’ perceptions:
In the UK, would you say that the number of places you can refuel an ICE vehicle:
… the number of places you can charge an EV?
Retweet for reach, please!
Are the wheels coming off #ElonMusk at TwitX?
Some thoughts looking at the update of Musk from version 1.0 to 2.0
Personality change and Politics
Advertising
Finance
Courts and Government
Divestment
And of course..Barclays
A short thread on Twitter/X being banned in Brazil. Is it a free-speech nightmare, or is it Musk getting his comeuppance for deliberately backing far-right misinformation that endangers Brazilian democracy? 1/6
Excellent work by @ofgem
They must feel a real sense of achievement as they skip into work every morning
UK electricity regulation isn’t working… although I’ll say one thing for Ofgem.. at least they don’t oversee the flushing millions of turds into our streams and rivers every…
Unbelievable story of two Colombian volunteers who fought with the International Legion in #Ukraine 🇺🇦.
One their way home they had a layover in #Venezuela 🇻🇪, where they were arrested at the airport and subsequently deported to #Russia 🇷🇺 where they're now facing trial.
Drip feeding military aid to Ukraine and placing restrictions on the use of this aid are only prolonging the war.
🇷🇺 is preparing for a long war of attrition against 🇺🇦 .
Our goal should be victory for 🇺🇦 as soon as possible.
#LetUkraineStrikeBack
The world installed 76% more solar last year than the year before
Solar. Can't stop, won't stop 😎
The #Amazon is being transformed from lush #forest into charcoal. The #rainforest is burning faster than ever before, with a record number of #fires. #Heatwaves and #droughts have turned the region into a barrel of gunpowder, just waiting for natural or unnatural ignition.
This is not only the largest wind turbine in the world (20 MW, 292-m rotor), but is built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane (up to 79.8 m/s).
It is now operating
A large field of them could dissipate a hurricane:
https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/WindHurricane/HurricTurbPaperNatCC.pdf
Many $TSLA bulls still mistakenly believe $TSLA will be the only automaker able to offer unsupervised (L4) autonomy. TSLA is clearly in the lead with its go-anywhere scalable FSD solution, but the market is fragmenting into standard and premium ADAS, and every auto maker is…
Don’t ever try and tell me the West did all we could.
We’ve never even got close.
I see we're doing fines properly now. Good.
#China continues its aggression against Philippine vessels in the #Philippines exclusive economic zone (EEZ) waters.
Breaking: Not only was Sunday the hottest day in the recorded history of Earth, Monday was even hotter. WHY ARENT YOU COVERING THIS PROMINENTLY @bbcnews @skynews @itvnews @thetimes @nytimes @cnn @BBCNewsnight
Kirill Griaznov, Russian culinary chef arrested for the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony terror plot is an FSB officer with direct ties to GRU's infamous sabotage & assassination squad, unit 29155. The terror plot unraveled because he got drunk.
I can’t believe he said this……on camera.
The Olympic Cauldron was lit with a burning arrow on this day at Barcelona 1992. 🔥
As archery kicks off today at #Paris2024, we're throwing back to that unforgettable moment.🏹✨
@worldarchery
💥 BREAKING: Goldsmiths University bans all fossil fuel, mining and arms recruitment after Student Union-led campaign!
🎉 This is the 8th victory for Fossil Free Careers and the result of students fighting to reclaim their university from the clutches of destructive industries!
