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Lewis Standing

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North East, Whitley Bay EV society, running, dad, sustainability, doctor Whitley Bay EV society https://www.facebook.com/groups/1596692434235953/?ref=share Octopus referral code £50 for you & me https://share.octopus.energy/glass-lane-979

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · Nov 22

I wanted to highlight some promotion of EVs I've been doing

I recommend EVs because they cause less air pollution (exhausts really stink & cause harm to health) , cause less carbon emissions over their lifetime And this has been a fun hobby for me

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 17h

This is what enabling fascism looks like

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 1d

www.rechargenews.com/wind/driftin...

Interesting bit of trivia

An oil tankers engine failed off the Dutch coast and was drifting towards the new Holland Kust Zuid windfarm...

Drifting oil tanker almost hits North Sea wind farm in 'near disaster'

Tanker incident was third collision scenario wind farm has faced in recent years

www.rechargenews.com

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 3d

Asking my @teamlabouruk.bsky.social MP sir Campbell to support a wealth tax, and to seize the agenda from reform from immigration bashing to taxing the rich.

Otherwise labour is toast.

@garyseconomics.bsky.social

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 4d

I loved it when I test drove one, the camera thing is odd yes

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 4d

www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/...

Should I treat myself? @graemecobb.com

It's only £20,000 off

Autotrader Logochevron upAutotrader LogoaddaddaddaddFacebookYouTubeInstagramTikTokGiphyPinterestApp Store logoPlay Store logohp-download-android-apphp-download-android-apphp-download-android-app

www.autotrader.co.uk

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 4d

First @co-charger.bsky.social customer

#whitleybayEVsociety

Hopefully the first of many

Glad to help someone go EV for a reasonable charge cost (30p/KWh)

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 4d

New #tesla superchargers are live in shiremoor/ cobalt business park North tyneside

Open to all V4 units
Only 55p/KWh
#whitleybayEVsociety

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 8d

Yes they are the victims, the Russian war of aggression crisis?

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 8d

There is a bit of that though, youtu.be/nQXc_C0m9Gg?...

Electric buses in Oslo are failing in cold winter

YouTube video by Bjørn Nyland

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 16d

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 8d

Yes this phase seems to have gone very well, saves us billions on the Ukraine gas price crisis for example.

Let's hope the next phase goes equally as well

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 8d

Taken from the Facebook group wind farm photography

All of the different phases of the wider Dogger Bank wind farm.

And to think some people object to these beauties being installed 🤷

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 8d

www.offshorewind.biz/2025/09/29/h...

Half of the turbines are installed at Sofia , part of the Dogger Bank wind farm. 50 Siemens gamesa 14MW units are now in the sea bed , and half have been installed with recyclable blades.

Great to hear progress on UKs clean energy build out

Half of Wind Turbines Up at RWE's New UK Offshore Wind Farm

More than half of the total 100 wind turbines are now in place at RWE's Sofia offshore wind farm site in the UK.

www.offshorewind.biz

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 11d

Are they? Wow.
Maybe I need to know this when advising kidney failure patients to avoid chips too (high potassium is bad for them)

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 11d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sadly my kids school is PFI and can't even accept free money from Great British energy for this, but great to see others being able to benefit

@edmilibandmp.bsky.social

West Yorkshire school hopes solar panels will save £10,000 a year - BBC News

Panels are installed on West End Academy's roof as part of a government scheme to cut bills.

www.bbc.co.uk

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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 11d

XCMG is scaling BEV fleets in the hundreds. 🚛⚡ Now the fastest-growing OEM, with electrification as its core bet. Fortescue’s 200×240-t LFP haulers mark China’s largest green mining export ever. While CAT & Komatsu run small pilots, XCMG leaps to global EV leader in record time. #EV #Mining #Lithium

XCMG and Fortescue haul truck sale is the biggest. EV deal. EVER.

In a deal worth billions, Chinese heavy equipment brand XCMG has sold 200 of its 240-tonne electric haul trucks to Fortescue.

electrek.co

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 11d

Offshore is away from nimbys and you can do both

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 11d

renews.biz/103282/orste...

More good news for the wind industry in the North East.

Hornsea 3 to be built from the port of tyne y

renews.biz

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 12d

And we were lucky enough to see the factory when we sailed from Hull to Rotterdam for our Disneyland trip

Disneyland Paris and back to Newcastle: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Disneyland Paris and back to Newcastle - YouTube

Check out our 856 mile round trip to Disneyland Paris from Newcastle Upon Tyne we pick up with kids from Scarbados - drive to the Ferry at Hull then land at ...

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 12d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I commonly hear about what a disaster wind turbines are because their blades can't be recycled.

Except of course these ones can be.

Why we're turning North Sea wind turbines into luggage - BBC News

Revolutionary recyclable blades at Dogger Bank offshore wind farm are a UK first.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 12d

Nibble nibble

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 12d

The labour party is unclear what it stands for

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 12d

youtu.be/qCYqANGR_t4

What's the battery 🪫🔋 health of my EV after 5 years and 70k miles?

How do different types of EV batteries last? Which brands are best?
How does charging or temperatures affect batteries?

Learn more here from 5:30 GMT
@everythingelectric.bsky.social

New to EVs? Myth Busting 2 Battery life?!

YouTube video by Lewis Standing

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Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 13d

www.electrive.com/2025/09/25/v...

Volvo EV coaches with 720KWh batteries, able to take journeys of 700kms between charges.

The coach could do Edinburgh to Brighton for example on a single charge.

@everythingelectric.bsky.social

Volvo unveils electric coach chassis with 700 km range - electrive.com

Volvo has presented a new coach chassis based on its BZR electric bus platform. The architecture supports a battery capacity of up to 720 kWh and is designed

www.electrive.com

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