Do you know who that YouTube guy would be? Because I reckon they are likely a kook, given that the actual Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders collects data that will be much more accurate and publishes it each month, eg:
That’s about the US market, which is detached almost completely from the rest of the world, thanks to the BubbaBlower
Not just Africa (and more on that here: https://ember-energy.org/lates...), but also Pakistan and many other places in SE Asia. Cheap panels and storage plus shitty grids is one heckuva structure to incentivise the rollout of decentralised power.
The point is that guy is sometimes a gender-neutral term. Eg “you guys” is sometimes used to refer to a group of girls or women.
People on Slashdot seem incapable of understanding that language continually evolves and that English has never been rigid with its rules anyway.
Solar is used in subSaharan Africa for a bit of light, charging mobile devices, possibly a fan or refrigeration. The loads are much smaller than in the developed world. And fires are going to decrease, not increase, because cooking fires and lighting fires are very frequent in non-electrified households.
UK market dynamics have shifted significantly in the last couple of years, in the direction of better choices and incentives:
- New tax breaks
- New purchase incentives
- Wider choice of superminis (R5, Inster, Spring, etc), smaller SUVs (EV2 etc), and other cars at a lower price point than before
- Wider choice of premium EVs from European OEMs, eg BMW’s seemingly endless models, the new CLA, etc
- Entry of Chinese-branded EVs such as BYD, Xpeng, etc (in addition to Chinese-owned such as MG etc)
- Continued expansion of the charger network and much wider adoption of contactless
The result is that 37k EVs were sold in October vs 64k petrol cars, ie 58% of the size of the petrol segment. A year ago it was 30k EVs and 73k petrol, ie 41%. That’s a pretty rapid pace of change, and it will clearly continue apace.
There’s a literal stacked column chart showing the absolute numbers of EV sales in the article, month by month, from Jan 24 to Oct 25. If you want more detail, you’d have to pay Rho Motion for the actual analytical report.
Do you think that the conclusions are somehow inaccurate and that EV sales aren’t growing? Because they clearly are, both in terms of absolute numbers and percentages.
Also, the significance of fleet/business vs private sales varies by market. In the UK, there are tax breaks that mean employees can buy EVs via their employer at advantageous rates. These are, in practice, private sales — individuals choose the cars they want to buy, and the cars are not required to be used for business purposes, for example — but they are counted as fleet sales.
Trump wants to be the king you pay tribute to in order to do business.
It's a very apt 1st world analogy of 3rd world problems. It's not a 1:1 analogy.
Rural places wait decades for the 'modern world' to reach them...just like suburbia waits hours for the Cable guy.
Moving mass won't induce spin - it might cause it to readjust orientation to the earth. I'm guessing the amount you'd need to move would rival all the earth ever moved on earth if not more.
The amount of energy it would take to start the entire moon spinning is quite literally, astronomical.
Millions of people would disagree with it being dead.
Imagine how much more plastic and other petrochemicals you'd have if we stoppes burning most of it.
Renewables being cheaper has moved a lot of stuff over already. The reality is that a lot of the cost of burning fossil fuels is outsourced or hidden, and efforts to make the people burning it pay are also proving to be effective.
The Chinese government has been pushing that narrative for years. They are the stable partner. World's second largest economy with much higher growth than all the other big ones. They don't force their ideology on you either.
It sucks because they aren't wrong about those things, and the stuff we compete with (lucrative markets, less exploitative, democracy) are not quite so tangible, not such big concerns for countries trying to deal with big economic problems or lift millions out of poverty. We need to be more competitive, but in a way that doesn't compromise our core values.
This has nothing to do with billionaires. You can decide right now to stop buying plastics, stop replacing your phone every year, give up your car and move to a city center, and stop supporting businesses that are oil based.
I don't want to stop buying plastics. I want to have the option to buy actually recycled plastics that actually get recycled. We can do this but we don't. We don't because the people with all the money who therefore control the means of production decide that we don't. "We" is a stretchy word. So is "you" and so's "can". Sure, you can choose to opt out of society, but it would make more sense to make society not shit all over everything.
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.
