Um…while we definitely need to ramp up EV infrastructure, there’s dozens of charging ports in every house & apartment & hundreds of them in every office building. You can charge an EV using a standard 120V outlet.

Granted, it’s slow & most aren’t practically located, but still.

Come for the great Tom Randall analysis, stay for the really cool charts, and pass by the solid quote I give in the piece lol. Give his piece a read 👇🏻

For all the talk of an EV slowdown, US sales are still booming for most automakers. For six of the top 10 brands, growth exceeded 50% in Q1. April sales came in similarly hot 🧵

Hasn't penetrated US discourse that the next president of Mexico is likely to be its first woman president, a Jewish woman named Claudia Sheinbaum whose grandparents fled Hitler's armies and who has a PhD in energy engineering and worked for the IPCC. Pretty incredible story!

Portugal is at war with itself over lithium.

In November, I visited Covas do Barroso, the tiny village that could soon turn into the European Union's largest lithium mine.

Here's my snapshot of the resistance and a dive into what's driving the project.
huffpost.com/entry/portugal…

This is a big deal: New data just released shows China's emissions are now in structural decline, says Lauri Myllyvirta. That could mean the country's emissions peaked in 2023, but we can only be sure years afterwards.

Hyundai taps ex-Porsche, Apple Car exec to bolster performance as it transitions to EVs electrek.co/2024/05/28/hyu… by Pete Johnson

Some key points here by Corey Cantor🌙.

Tesla is STILL the only high volume EV automaker selling more than 100,000 vehicles/year in the US market. But Hyundai, Ford, and GM look set to join Tesla this year.

That's critical, because economies of scale (especially across shared

Is the slowdown in US electric vehicle sales growth a blip? Bloomberg argues it's a tale of two markets, with automakers lacking compelling new products (*cough* Tesla!) flagging while 6 of the 10 largest EV makers surged 56-86% year on year:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

We made a

Bloomberg: The Slowdown in US Electric Vehicle Sales Looks More Like a Blip

Source: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

WAIT A SECOND

GEORGE IS BACK (at Tesla Charging)

George:
'Two weeks ago, I was asked to return to @Tesla in my previous capacity heading up business development and site acquisition for Tesla charging - I accepted. This quote by our former fearless leader guided me:

'You

Seems like someone (Alex B.) was a little upset last night, Mike Bisceglia. Could easily replace his rant with a Hawks/Bucks ‘21 one. But alas — injuries they do suck!

SUVs accounted for almost half of global car sales in 2023, a new record reflecting the shift to larger cars

The trend has big implications for the climate, with SUVs accounting for over 20% of the growth in global energy-related CO2 emissions last year: iea.li/3UV4HNb

The quote David Wallace-Wells pulls below highlights why automakers in the US (Europe, Japan) can't afford to fall further behind in the global EV race. Chinese automakers continue to grow exports to OTHER markets, which means OEMs who don't will fight over shrinking ICE marketshare

Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson:

“That was an amazing moment, when I realised that we didn’t have to arrange the forces for saving the planet against the force of economics, because they actually lined up.”

⁦Carbon Brief⁩

carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-bri…

The decades of effort to push down solar costs are paying off: Developing countries are building solar simply because it's cheap and effective.

How EVs are resetting the global market

China's 2nd largest automaker is bringing electric cars -- not the combustion engine -- to Egypt.

'Manufacturing will be scaled up over 5 years, with the goal of producing cars with 65% locally-sourced parts.'

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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