Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles Autotrader says average EV cost is £785 cheaper, in an important milestone in the move away from fossil fuels * Business live – latest updates The price of new battery electric cars has fallen below petrol cars in the UK for the first time ever, according to the car sales website Autotrader, in a significant milestone in Britain’s transition away from fossil fuels. The average price of a new electric car listed on the website was £42,620, compared with £43,405 for a new petrol model – making the former £785 cheaper based on advertised prices after discounts. Continue reading...

Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles

The day I met Josef Mengele São Paulo, Brazil: 1973, February, give or take a week or 3.

This is a true story about an event that has stayed with me for nearly all my adult life.

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The day I met Josef Mengele São Paulo, Brazil: 1973, February, give or take a week or 3.

This is a true story. I still have to pinch myself.

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In Iran war, look out for fast electrification of heating and transport.
After Ukraine war, Europe (belatedly) accelerated installing heat pumps in millions of homes #DemandDestructionWatch
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Saudi Arabia bridles at Donald Trump’s way of waging war Nearly five weeks after US and Israel attacked Iran, Washington’s Gulf ally frets about the damage

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Solid-state EV batteries are rolling out in China, promising nearly 1,000 miles of range Chinese battery manufacturers already account for well over 50% of the global market, but new battery types, including solid-state, are...

I'm curious if the gas and diesel drivers who were so worried about range anxiety will now want bigger gas tanks because EVs will have greater range?

Of course, they may not be able to afford a bigger gas tank these days.

Trump’s Iran folly risks becoming irreversible Threat to send in US ground forces would only compound mistakes that have handed advantage to Russia and China

William Hague dismantles Trump:

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How old do you have to be to know what Tippex is?

Global Warming Has Significantly Accelerated Also: what happens to FEMA after Kristi Noem?

Meanwhile…
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You can say “know” rather than suspect.

It doesn’t take a US blockade to make renewables cheaper to build, run and consume.

Costs of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Rollback Could Outweigh Savings Also: UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband on his deal with California Governor Gavin Newsom

The cost of clinging to a contracting fossil-fuel economy will cost the USA dear.

And then there's the small matter of handing the future to the Chinese.

And the flight of global capital out of FFs and into renewables.

To the winners, the spoils.

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We should pay much more attention to the big insurers. They put a price tag on accelerating climate change as it happens. Great data.

The science of climate prediction will always be disputed, but sceptics can’t shrug off insurance data. It’s about real money lost.

Never went away.

The markets now drive the accelerating growth of renewable energy. Cheaper to build, run & consume.

Except in the White House where Victorian energy policy is having last, limp hurrah.

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The big insurance companies, inc Swiss Re & Munich Re, have been sounding the climate warning claxon for 30 years. Great data.

Too many greens ignored them for too long.

Now Trump is wilfully deaf. Politics trumps (sorry) hard data. Again-again.

Wales should relegated to the European championship (replaced by a promotion). Scotland should be worried.

The game is now too big to carry deadweight teams and futile games.

Change the bottom team every year. Add some jeopardy.

Tesla's batteries: a five-year reality check The Battery Day 2020: what worked and what didn’t

To cut a long story down to size, here’s the concluding thought:

“If anything, the Battery Day was a reminder that in battery manufacturing, physics sets the schedule, not press events.”

In a word: ‘Meh!’

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Oil glut. LNG glut. US Coal mining rights auctions pulled as prices collapse. Trump kids power bit coin mines with renewables. AND my EV & house cost diddleysquat to run.

Hmm. Looks like, I dunno, there’s a theme here …

Umm …. People who earn less, save less? That’s a story?

What happens to researchers at Bristol university? Not savers?

It all makes me rather queasy. Schadenfreude, and yes, that's me, can end very badly.

Just how debased is the dollar? Not nearly as much as it could be

“Trading floors are abuzz with talk of the “debasement trade”, a broad term for bets on the deterioration of American financial exceptionalism. If the debasement traders are right, then the sell-off in the greenback has barely begun.”

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China’s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire US Power Grid China is undertaking an energy-building boom unlike anything the world has ever seen, as Beijing seeks to ensure supply for power-hungry facilities that are key to dominating emerging industries of th...

Half solar, plenty of wind and some FF. Curiously, they're building coal generation they don't need: "... even as the country builds new coal power plants, all the new clean energy means they’re being used less."

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Re-introduce Pine Martens. They kill grey squirrels so effectively that the greys disappear (dead/fled).

Reds and Martens evolved together. Reds know they can escape at the branch ends, where Martens are too heavy to get them.

Greys have no answer except relocation or death.

‘Made O’Meter’ works well in the UK.

Indian adoption of solar out performs China at the same stage.

"It’s cheaper to build a new solar farm in India than to simply keep buying the coal for an existing coal-fired power plant." Bill McKibben.

India is out performing China at the same stage ..

USA's FF policy is an outlier. A domestic hold-out against a global switch to renewables.

What’s the smart meter got to do with it? Ours isn’t even plugged in because it can’t get a signal. We do everything on-line & on the app.

NEW | Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU power sector 🇪🇺⚡️

Our @ember-energy.org European Electricity Review is out today, showing wind and solar reaching 30% of EU power, compared to 29% for fossil fuels.

Here's what happened in EU electricity generation in 2025 🧵

Renewables push China's fossil‑fuelled power into first annual drop in 10 years China's mostly coal-based thermal power generation fell in 2025 for the first time in 10 years, government data showed on Monday, as growing renewable generation met growth in electricity demand even ...

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I didn’t use it that way …

Donald Trump links Greenland pursuit to failure to win Nobel Prize US president texts Norwegian leader that he no longer feels obliged ‘to think purely of Peace’ after missing out on award

For UK readers of my vintage (mostly):

'1066 & All That' is the ultimate skuel-boy history of everything. The book ends in 1919 with "America was thus clearly Top Nation, and history came to a ...."

DJT’s letter nails the skuel-boy venacular. Is it a new last chapter?

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