Great q

Agreed 🤣🌈🎊🌶️

11. How mismatched is European seasonal solar supply and electricity demand? Well, here is the situation for my fully electrified house in Switzerland with 13.2kW of solar, a heatpump and an EV. I would have needed about 122kW of PV to be self-sufficient across December.

10. We oughtta be building more wind, especially in seasonal climates like Europe. Solar will get built anyway, it’s cheap, but wind blows at night and in the winter. We’re going to need something to charge the batteries in winter, especially with rising heatpump use.

Electric vehicle adoption is accelerating worldwide – but not in the United States:

A million sounds fun Until you start counting cars in the US China does a million Every Single Month (and yes I’m well aware China is bigger than the US)

That’d be so cool

Nepal passed 5% battery electric vehicle share in August 2021 and is at 75%. The U.S. passed 5% in October 2022 and is at 6%.

Both countries hope that their domestic car makers can so continue to produce more internal combustion engine cars (some with plug) for the next years to come. Carmakers claim that this gives them time to build up their EV portfolio (after missing the signs the past years). Who will pay? Consumers.

France and Germany reach an agreement: the European Commission had scaled back the 2035 target from 100 to 90%, subject to conditions including the use of green steel. They scrap that. But if green steel is used in cars, it can create additional ‘flexibility’

Von der Leyen & Costa presser at European Council cancelled as talks ran over, so we won't hear from VDL re kill switch & safeguards. But tonight feels like a line in the sand in Brussels on China policy Officials say Germany now wants to drive the train - unthinkable weeks ago!

You are right of course you’re paying in advance for your own “discount” and that’s important to them: you’ll come back

You get the (20cent) discount without the sub though but I see your point and that’s why I mentioned it

AP: The not-so-secret vulnerability in Ukraine’s drone arsenal? Chinese technology – ‘Switching entirely to Western alternatives could raise costs by as much as 60% and cut production by a similar amount’

Share charging to cut costs, Fraunhofer tells electric truck fleets