94.3% of all cars sold in Norway were electric in August and guess what, the grid hasn't collapsed there aren't dead EVs everywhere houses and parking lots aren't on fire people don't miss the loud wrooms the landfills aren't full of batteries [...]

What the article (accurately) says: "The average migrant worker pays more in tax than they received in public services compared to the average British-born worker". What the headline says: telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

"Plans unveiled for cheaper high-speed alternative to scrapped HS2 northern leg" Interesting - I'd take 186mph trains and a train line over 225mph trains and no train line theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s…

BREAKING: High court blocks Cumbria plan for first new UK coalmine in 30 years theguardian.com/environment/20…

Had to recharge a car earlier. In public. What a palaver! And so expensive! Site was busy and all units in use. I did get on one after a five minute wait, but was unable to use it as it wouldn’t accept my Apple pay on the tappy unit -and I didn’t have a physical card on me. So

THIS WINS THE DAY!!!!

You're transferring a tiny fraction of your vast surplus arsenal to a democracy so that it can defend itself from the brutal thuggery of one of your geopolitical enemies, while signalling to your largest rival that the US will not abandon its friends in the face of aggression.

Why moving to electrified transport is an advantage to seize: 🔋80% of lithium, 66% of nickel and 50% of copper reserves are in democracies. 🛢️80% of oil reserves are in OPEC countries

Electric vehicles are already displacing nearly 1.8 million barrels of oil every day – roughly the same amount as Mexico consumes, according to BloombergNEF. That number is set to double by 2027, and triple by 2029, causing oil use in the road sector to peak in three years.

Oxford Street is Britain's high street, but instead of being a source of pride - it's just crowded and crap. Pedestrianisation is long overdue.

I find the political debate around working from home strange. In my view, politicians shouldn't take a side either way, but rather trust businesses and workers to figure it out themselves. This isn't an area where one-size fits all works.

1 - yay to pedestrianising Oxford Street 2 - that includes no cyclists? Seems fair enough (I say this as something of a cycling enthusiast)

Will be a little quiet on the ‘challenging nonsense said about EVs’ front for a couple of weeks Having what i feel is a well deserved 2 week break Since you ask, I’ll be travelling around Scotland, a lot by bike Enjoying views like this!

Some European OEMs will actually have to start making better, more affordable EVs, instead of lobbying to delay and fall further behind China 👍 "EU Commission rebuffs car industry calls to delay CO2 targets" euractiv.com/section/electr…

This 👇🏾 The european car industry has a fairly stark choice Adapt (switch to EVs) = survive Delay (resist switch to EVs) = die