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
You can regulate a pregnant body but not a coal plant. You can control the free speech of a teacher but not the money-as-speech of a corporation. You can coerce a child to pray in school but you can’t keep guns out of their classroom. What a world this Supreme Court is making.
New California plastics law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom - CNN
Time for other countries to set a sell by date for single use plastic
The law requires that single-use packaging & plastic food serviceware be recyclable or compostable by 2032 https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/us/california-plastic-law-climate/index.html
@TomBirch91 @iyke_EV @wandbc Hopefully more councils will start doing this as lamp post chargers like @ubitricity & https://www.fmconway.co.uk/our-services/surecharge offer good value 32p/28p per kWh for those of us without London driveways
For surecharge their app is best as Zapmap still working to put them on-1k installed in Fulham!
@TomBirch91 @iyke_EV True but after some encouragement by me, @wandbc is doing a trial of selected lamp posts having a dedicated “EV only while charging” bay
Just 1 of the 4 posts in my street has a bay which is enough for now & lets it charge several EVs every day
esp useful for visiting #EV drivers
EV brands pull up the drawbridge on electric cars under 35k in🇬🇧
If e-C4x pricing is correct then Stellantis will push Corsa-e & e-208 EV models over £30k by Q4 & larger models like e-2008 will be close to £35k
“Just” under £30k that leaves
Mini
Fiat 500
std range MG ZS
Leaf
Stretching a £29k Citroen e-C4 gives x a whole new market & if the price is right some big sales
But initial guidance was pricing would be similar
EU guidance was about £1k over equivalent e-C4s
but now @AutoExpress reports it could “start from” £35k!
No
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/citroen/c4/358292/new-2022-citroen-e-c4-x-arrives-practical-electric-fastback
June been breaking temperature records with heatwaves in much of Europe, Asia & the US & Arctic
Those 115F US temperatures are 46C
Each passing year it takes less imagination to know how warm those summer nights will be when we heat the planet by 2C
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/june-heat-waves-smash-records-across-the-globe/
The #SupremeCourt’s climate decision (to limit the ability of the EPA to regulate) came out of a decades-long campaign to kneecap regulation
A brief history of how dark money and the country's most powerful legal organization gave us this Supreme Court
https://grist.org/accountability/the-supreme-courts-climate-decision-came-out-of-a-decades-long-campaign-to-kneecap-regulation/
The "UK's largest public charging hub" has just opened in Oxford - YouTube
Redbridge park and ride near Oxford is now open with Tesla Superchargers, FastNed and AC contactless
See details here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzzxkP-hfCA
🧵Every year, bp publishes its Statistical Review of World Energy. Every year, there are some striking findings. Here are four, charted.
1. Renewable generation is now 13% of global electricity generation (passed 10% in 2019) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-30/these-4-charts-show-how-much-global-energy-has-changed-since-2000?sref=JMv1OWqN
🇺🇸Tesla Model 3 Uber driver doubles tips sees big savings after ditching Camry
Of 15k #Uber drivers who opted to rent a Tesla through Hertz
95% were driving an EV for the platform for the first time
92% have noted that they are now considering buying an EV https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-driver-2x-tips-gas-savings-vs-toyota-camry/
testimony in full screened by PBS without commentary is here
https://youtu.be/bC3_VFFJlSY
Ironically what Ms Hutchinson relays about the day is exactly what Trump’s armed mob would have wanted losing ex President to do and say as they tried to overturn democracy at his behest
Cassidy Hutchinson's Jan. 6 testimony sways legal experts, some right-wing media
#CassidyHutchinson , aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows came across as a very credible witness & her the key testimony are summarised in the article 🧵 https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108573335/hutchinsons-bombshell-jan-6-testimony-sways-legal-experts-and-conservative-media
More emerging about the new MG4
2 battery options
51kWh with 217 miles WLTP certification
64kWh with 280 miles WLTP
A single electric motor develops 167bhp in the base car and 201bhp in the 64kWh model, enabling 0-62mph in under 8 seconds
https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/mg/357426/new-mg-4-electric-hatch-arrives-280-miles-range
Haunted?
#Ioniq6 is finally revealed in production form in link
The trouble is, in pictures at least, it seems to struggle to match the fab Ioniq Prophesy concept that preceded it-pics below
Will it look special or disappointing on the road? Time will tell
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/2023-hyundai-ioniq-6-rakish-model-3-rival
@alex_avoigt In fairness perhaps it’s easier for Elon to add 10,000 followers when he isn’t tweeting🤣
There are many things to do with Tesla and SpaceX and the future of our planet that gain him respect & followers.. and equally most other topics where he loses them
Legal Discovery stage is coming, where inner workings of the Murdoch Fox empire will be revealed
Did they knowingly allow false allegations about the voting machines to be spread by their broadly pro Putin news service, Fox News, in order to discredit the US election vote?🤔
Will lawsuits by 2 voting machine companies Dominion & Smartmatic sink the #Murdoch empire?
Suits against Fox News, Fox News’s parent company & pro-Trump news outlets Newsmax & One America News (OAN), for billions of dollars collectively are going ahead
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dominion-fox-news-rupert-murdoch-b2107269.html
Biz sec @KwasiKwarteng under questioning from @charlotte2153 as to why Govt did not speak with EDF about extending Hinkley Point B in face of growing energy crisis says reactor was too old.
"It's about health and safety," he says.
But crucially, EDF thought it was feasible.
Compared to my hopes for 2022 EV sales in the UK how shaping up to be disappointing because of limited supply
Heres why 2022 is putting the transition on pause before play or hopefully fast forward resumes in 2023
Thinking of buying an electric car in 2022 but haven’t ordered it?
We love electric cars but here is why you might want to or have to hold onto that piston petrol, diesel or greenwashing hybrid till 2023 before driving into the electric future
https://myurbancar.com/2022/06/28/why-2023-may-be-a-better-year-to-switch-to-an-electric-car/
#HeatPumps: the facts
An evidence-based summary of key info you need to know about the #NetZero home heating technology.
For more info >> https://bit.ly/3kZpeyx
