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Bill McKibben Sees Trouble Ahead For Tesla & Big Oil

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Dedicated climate activist Bill McKibben in a post on Substack suggested that Tesla and Big Oil have a common weakness. He says both are way behind the technological curve. The proof? The announcement a few days ago by BYD that it has developed a battery for an electric car that … [continued]

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Federal EV Charging Stations Not Being Turned Off (For Now)

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A few weeks ago, I saw a bunch of headlines about the Trump administration pulling the plug on all federal EV charging stations. Scandalous! Idiotic! Totally in character. I figured someone else on the team was going to cover it, so I didn’t look more closely. Then, no one covered … [continued]

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Will Tesla’s Pivot To MAGA Crash The Company? Has Musk’s Reach Exceeded His Grasp?

7 min read

Let me start by saying that I love my Tesla Model Y. It’s a great car: reliable, inexpensive to drive, comfortable, speedy, high tech. But I’ve been heartbroken over the turn of events of the company, to the point that I put on one of the “I bought this car … [continued]

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Simon Michaux’s Purple Delusion: The Pseudoscience of Doom

11 min read

Simon Michaux has built a reputation on painting an apocalyptic vision of the energy transition, but his work consistently collapses under scrutiny. I’ve personally taken apart his comically bad lithium supply projections and his metal demand doomsday scenarios, and each time, the pattern is the same — wild extrapolations that … [continued]

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