Anyway I went down to the local shopping centre and plugged my car in for the complementary free electricity, had a wander bought a few groceries and went home passing the “cheap” petrol station to see the price at $2.15 a litre and sympathised with all those friends who told me I was mad to go EV.
ABC News did some analysis on how rising fuel prices will drive #EV uptake @sydneyev.bsky.social based on breakeven costs.
Summary: Every 20% rise in petrol prices means it’s 1 year less to breakeven on the up front costs by fuel savings.
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
And guess what's going to happen this year?
New global data confirms renewables are booming – and not just in the big economies reneweconomy.com.au/new-global-d...
Kenya & Nigeria — two of Africa’s largest economies — are leading the push for local EV assembly to slash fuel import bills, cut emissions and build domestic manufacturing strength. Developing nations aren’t retracing the fossil path — they’re leapfrogging straight into #Bettrification. 🔋
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"Bethelhem gave up driving her taxi 2 yrs ago. Rising cost of gas & spare parts needed to keep her old car meant that she couldn’t earn enough to make ends meet.
“It was no longer worth it,”
6 months later, she was back on the road, this time in a brand new BenBen E-Star, an EV made by Chang’an."
🇬🇧 Larry the cat celebrates 15 years as Downing Street's chief mouser
The UK's most famous feline, Larry the cat, marks 15 years as the country's chief mouser patrolling the corridors of power of 10 Downing Street.
The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.
It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.
Here’s what I mean 🧵👇
In Australia, mostly Petrol is tanking due to EVs
FSS 2026 update of IEA chart @reneweconomy.com.au @fssau.futuresmart.com.au
IEA estimate of solar offsetting shiploads of coal based on 2023 data
Since then, tech improves, and in 2026, effectiveness of clean energy shiploads is up by up to 15%
But, efficiency of a ship full of coal or gas remains static
reneweconomy.com.au/one-ship-loa... @reneweconomy.com.au
A program that was very helpful in QLD was the cofunded charger program that now allows charging at Tesla superchargers from Brisbane to Cairns, along with other providers around the state
www.qld.gov.au/transport/pr...
www.qrida.qld.gov.au/program/elec...
Great service 👍
What was the problem with the charger?
Australia monthly vehicle sales by drivetrain to Dec 2025
Australia monthly vehicle sales by category to Dec 2025
Australia annual vehicle sales by country of origin to Dec 2025
Australian vehicle sales summary
Dec 2025 VFACTs + EV Council - 7Jan2027
BEV 10.6%
Hybrid (inc PHEV) 25.2%
ICE only drive train share 64.1%
SUVs 62% share of sales
>110 BEV models available in 2025
BEV 8.5% 2025 Aus annual sales
Country of origin: China now 2nd as total vehicles supplier
2025 China BEV Market Summary
#ChinaAutoMarket #electricvehicles
Maybe this project closer to the end user could be part of the reason?
gurinenergy.com/projects/van...
Australia's main electricity grid, the NEM, will soon have 40GW/113GWh of storage (not including Snowy2.0).
That's enough storage to power the grid for about 4.5hrs at average demand of ~25GW
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🚨New paper alert 🚨
Modelling the “S curve”: Transition Dynamics in EV Adoption - led by postdoc Omid Khajehdehi.
We propose a relatively simple but nonlinear opinion dynamic model with price, vehicle availability, and charging infrastructure metrics 🧵 1/
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
NEW ANALYSIS: Electric vehicles are entering the mid-transition space starting to replace ICE vehicles.
History shows that shifts like this can happen faster than expected: in the early 20th-century US, horses and mules virtually vanished from roads in under 30 years.
cdn.sanity.io/files/lrxd4j...
EV adoption is taking off from Southeast Asia to Latin America, with many countries leapfrogging advanced economies and reaching high EV share 🚗
Strategic benefits of transport electrification:
🏭 new industries
🛢️ lower fossil imports
🌬️ cleaner air
https://loom.ly/pMmY5Y8
#BYD 's Electric Buses Secure Victory at German Design Award 2026!
The BYD B12.b HF and the 18‑meter battery electric articulated bus B18.b have both been honored with this award.
We often hear experts tell us that the global shift from fossil fuels is glacially slow. The reality is that we’re living through the fastest energy transformation in human history.
Red Texas is a leader in renewable energy deployment.
The state's solar surge proves that the energy transition defies politics.
How solar and big batteries are shaping a new global gas market reality – and what it means for Australia reneweconomy.com.au/how-solar-an...
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
Strong counterpoint to the coalition’s fake arguments against renewables costs
Love or hate Tesla, this effectively ends the argument: 11 MW of solar and 39 MWh of Megapack storage powering a 164-stall, fully off-grid Supercharger in California. Proof that not just transport, but electricity itself, no longer needs fossil fuels. The tech exists. The excuses are gone. #Lithium
This by @skyelark.bsky.social was such a brilliant slaughtering of the LNP’s $9tn claim. Ley won’t even say the number anymore #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
