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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · Feb 28

Another day

Text box: Me reading the news every day about something that's happening in the U.S.
Image: illustration of a man looking at his phone with a disdainful look on his face
Speech bubble: Wow, that's fucked up.

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

Carwow's Mat Watson tests the wild Xiaomi SU7 Ultra (1,500 HP!) in Germany, including a drag race

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJA8...

#EVs #EVsky

Is this Chinese Porsche better than the real thing?

YouTube video by carwow

www.youtube.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

alt link: www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

EU needs to ignore the lowball S&P Global prediction ("EVs would make up 63% of new sales in 2035" = BS) and stick to this. a decade is a looooooong way off and it's do-able

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Carmakers push EU to ease 2035 petrol car ban ahead of review on.ft.com/46YUEwq

Carmakers push EU to ease 2035 petrol car ban ahead of review

Industry body says policy is based ‘on outdated premises and optimistic assumptions’

on.ft.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

without lane entering, it'll pull to the far-right

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

Tesla sales in China are declining - but they're not declining as rapidly as BMW & Mercedes (and maybe Audi too?) with their lacklustre and over-priced EVs

Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.bsky.social · 1d

Tesla now bigger than BMW/Mercedes in China (!)

stats by #alojoh

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New Era Entered
#alwaysbecharging nitter.net/alojoh/statu...

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

over 18,000 children murdered by Israeli military

**eighteen thousand** kids

"Deaths as a direct result of Israeli aggression, as of 30 July 2025" - "Of the 60,199 deaths recorded by July 2025, 18,457 or 31% were children:

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

true. expensive + lazy is quite a combo.

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 1d

because Tesla is too incompetent to launch a new model, it has instead launched this Flintstones ass Model Y. notice how material has been glued over the inside of the glass roof

insideevs.com/news/774980/...

#EVs #EVsky

2026 Tesla Model Y Standard: This Is It

The cheaper Model Y we’ve all been waiting for is here. Can it compete with a growing number of competitive rivals?

insideevs.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 2d

it's worth taking a moment to appreciate this year is the 200th anniversary of one of the greatest ever inventions - trains!

On 27 September 1825, the first steam-powered passenger train ran on a public railway in the north of the UK

www.onthisday.com/articles/fea...

19th-century illustration depicting the opening Of The Stockton And Darlington Railway, 27th September 1825.

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 2d

strongly agree on what another commenter said: DISCOVER is so bad that it nearly made me quit the app before realising that I can remove it.

when I say bad, I mean showing irrelevant content - manga/cartoon drawings. no clue how to classify them. have zero interest. but Discover showed me lots.

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 4d

How the US got left behind in the global #electric #car race

#BEV #EV #GHG #CO2
$TSLAQ

Full story:
www.bbc.com/news/article...

US lags behind world on electric vehicle sales

Share of new cars sold that are electric

Graph showing:

50% China
30% (ish) UK
20% ish World/EU (axis cross)
10% USA

All datapoints start @ 0% in 2015 and goes to 2025

Source: IEA, Our World In Data
Note: Electric cars include fully battery-electric and plug-in hybrids.

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 3d

from 0 to over 11,000 monthly sales in the space of just a few years. a meteoric rise

alt link: www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

UK becomes BYD’s largest international market after sales surge on.ft.com/46DLVRx

UK becomes BYD’s largest international market after sales surge

Chinese carmaker takes market share despite being shut out of subsidy scheme

on.ft.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 4d

it's not inhumane if it doesn't involve a living creature. genuinely astounded that someone apparently so smart can say something so dumb

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 6d

this kind of credulous garbage is exactly what the tech bros want - they want AI to seem inevitable and all-conquering. but it ain't.

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 6d

dude wants to speak to the manager of the nazi bar

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 9d

South Korea focused on premium performance. China focused on cost — and won the EV battery wars

China charges ahead as South Korea’s battery giants lose their spark

South Korea’s top battery makers are losing ground as Chinese firms dominate with cheaper technology, factory scale, and state backing.

restofworld.org

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 7d

ouch! best wishes for tomorrow

Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 7d

a man in a suit and tie is blowing a trumpet

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is blowing a trumpet

media.tenor.com

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 7d

ID3 is a bad comparison by that website. it's Model 3 sized. but anyway it's good to see it get nice reviews

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 8d

good for him. we need more politicians telling billionaires to f right off

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8d

Miliband tells Musk to ‘get the hell out of our politics and our country’ on.ft.com/3IKTvjW

Ed Miliband tells Elon Musk to ‘get the hell out of our politics and our country’

Blistering attack at Labour conference comes after tech billionaire has used X to hit out at British government

on.ft.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 8d

America's already failing automakers will be falling behind even further on EVs after this

BertelSchmitt #fella 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 @dailykanban.com · 8d

@Ford CEO expects #EV sales to be cut in half after end of tax credits www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/f... via CNBC

Ford CEO expects EV sales to be cut in half after end of tax credits

Farley said the industry learned that "partial electrification," such as hybrids, are easier for customers to accept for the time being.

www.cnbc.com

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 8d

Tesla is getting swamped in China, with close Chinese rivals like Zeekr, Nio, Xpeng, Xiaomi on the rise and now all regularly selling 30k to 50k per month, which is on a par with Tesla China biz

CnEVPost @cnevpost.com · 8d

Zeekr Group delivers 51,159 cars in Sept, highest monthly figure this year

The Zeekr brand delivered 18,257 cars in September, down 14.42 percent year-on-year; Lynk & Co delivered 32,902 units, up 27.51 percent year-on-year. cnev.co/P2gwY1t 👇

Zeekr Group delivers 51,159 cars in Sept, highest monthly figure this year

The Zeekr brand delivered 18,257 vehicles in September, down 14.42 percent year-on-year; Lynk & Co delivered 32,902 units, up 27.51 percent year-on-year.

cnev.co

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Steven M @stevenmil.bsky.social · 8d

in Singapore, EVs are now 41% of new car registrations

so it seems on course to ban pure-ICE sales by 2030

www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/el...

#EVs #EVsky

IN FOCUS: No new petrol-only cars in Singapore from 2030 – what infrastructure needs to change?

As Singapore pushes towards an entirely cleaner-energy vehicle population by 2040, what will happen to petrol stations and will there be enough EV chargers?

www.channelnewsasia.com

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