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Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Hello Europe. Do you want to kill electrification by continuing to tax electricity more than fossil gas? That's exactly what you are doing today
>EU large industry pays 4.0 c€/kWh in tax on power vs 1.8 c€ on gas (2025): 2.2x
>In 7 member states, electricity's retail tax share is 1.3 to 4x gas's
>UK: despite partial levy cuts and a VAT holiday, home electricity still costs 3.3x gas per kWh, above the 2.9x heat pump break-even
We tax the wire at double the pipe, when we need to align taxation with decarbonisation. Insane.
eurelectric.org/publications…
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Top 9 Recent EV Breakthroughs
1 Global Tipping Point (2026): Global electric passenger car sales tracking to hit 23m in 2026, a 28% global share, with over 80% of Asia’s power demand now sitting in markets electrifying faster than the US
2 Light EV Revolution (Global South 2026): Global stock of electric 2- and 3-wheelers at 350m vehicles, displacing record 1.15m barrels of oil demand / day, single largest driver of road-fuel demand destruction on Earth
3 Battery Tech: CATL unveiled 3rd-generation Shenxing/Qilin battery tech, delivers 98% charge in 6 minutes + 1,500km range
4 Heavy Trucks (China 2026): E-trucks at 29% market share in China, overtaking LNG models for 1st time, backed by battery-swapping hubs that swap a 40-ton rig's battery in under 5 minutes
5 Extinction Event (Norway 2026): Pure BEVs hit world-record 98.4% of new car sales in Q1 2026, leaving diesel, petrol, and plug-in hybrids combined at under 1.6% market share as combustion engines reach effective extinction
6 Beautiful Bans (Laos 2026): Laos issued a complete import ban on refined petrol/diesel passenger vehicles, forcing vertical S-curve transport shift and halting foreign exchange bleeding
7 Indonesia Boom (2026): Electrified vehicle sales up 69% in H1 to 117,000 units, with 1 in 4 new passenger cars now electrified (BEVs alone ~16% share)
8 Australia Surge (2026): EV sales more than doubled in H1 to over 100,000 units, market share leaping from 7.6% to 16.4% YTD and hitting record 23.5% in June, outselling both diesel and hybrids for 1st time
9 Emerging Markets Boom (2026): Sales doubled in Brazil, India, Korea and Viet Nam (Viet Nam BEVs at 43% share and Brazil up 125% in H1), with New Zealand BEVs more than tripling in key months
Voila. Technology beats finite commodities every single time
Wires chewing pipelines
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Everything’s pretty much as expected, except much worse: Sea surface temperatures totally out of control, & global surface temperatures crashing through 1.5°C warming
Keep living in a fool's paradise, or phase-out fossil fuels now
[Charts via @EliotJacobson and @hausfath]
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline.
“Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet.*
Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming.**
Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”***
* in 1937, Guy Callendar published a paper showing that the world had already warmed over the last 50 years due to human emissions what he called “carbonic acid“ – what we now call CO2 – from burning fossil fuels
** If you are wondering, “how could humans be causing more than 100% of the warming?”
— it’s because, according to natural factors, the earth should be cooling right now.
So our emissions are offsetting that cooling AND causing all of the observed warming.
*** For more on the well funded disinformation campaign, read or watch Merchants of Doubt and The Petroleum Papers
Most Americans Aren't Convinced Humans Are Causing Climate Change, New Data Shows
go.forbes.com/h-CoYw
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Today’s "anytime solar" revolution is a vertical takeover of the global power grid: With stationary battery costs cratering 45% in just 12 months to $70/kWh, the "but the sun doesn't shine at night" argument is officially in the graveyard
1 It's a takeover of the "peak market": Traditionally, expensive gas "peaker" plants were the only way to meet high demand in the evening. Batteries are now eating this market for breakfast, already setting peak prices 36% of the time in Australia and slashing price volatility by half
2 It's a takeover of the "baseload market": Fossil fuel advocates long claimed coal and gas were necessary for "always-on" power. In 2025, dispatchable solar with batteries reached a price point ($76/MWh) that makes it cheaper than building new gas plants and comparable to or cheaper than new coal in markets like India
3 It's a takeover of the "night market" too: Fossil fuels used to "own" the hours from 6 PM to 6 AM. With battery costs cratering by 45% in 2025 alone, we have entered the era of "Anytime Solar," where the sun's energy is stored during the day to power the grid around the clock, effectively evicting fossil fuels from the dark hours
4 And finally it's a takeover of the "growth market": In the past, economic growth meant more fossil fuels. In 2025, clean power met 100% of all new electricity demand growth globally. This means fossil fuels have lost their "right to grow" and are in inevitable decline
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
The energy used to make fuel is STAGGERING.
Most people think about what happens inside the engine…
But the real waste starts LONG before the fuel even reaches your car.
To make just 1 litre of petrol:
Around 1,700-3,400 kJ (0.5-0.95 kWh) is used just to get oil out the ground.
Then another 3,400-6,800 kJ (0.95-1.9 kWh) is used to refine it into usable fuel.
That’s 5,100-10,200 kJ (1.4-2.8 kWh) gone before you’ve even driven a single mile.
That same energy, just to make the fuel, could be used to drive an EV 6-12 miles.
Now scale that to a full tank…
A 60 litre tank uses 84-168 kWh of energy just to produce the fuel.
If that powered an EV instead, it would drive 336-672 miles.
And here’s the WORST part…
This doesn’t include shipping it around the world, transporting it to fuel stations or pumping it into a car.
All of which use even more energy.
The losses involved in the transportation of oil and fuel are staggering, but that’s another post.
Then once it’s in your car, it’s burned ONCE, and it’s gone.
All that energy used just to burn it ONCE.
A petrol engine also only uses about 20-35% of that energy to actually move the wheels.
So staggering amounts of energy are being used, just for 70% of what that energy creates to be wasted.
Any other industry with these figures would be bankrupt, and it would be classed as an insane practice.
So, NEVER forget…
Before a fossil car fills its tank, it’s already “spent” enough energy to drive hundreds of miles in an EV.
Make it make sense.
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
44% of evening peak met by batteries. In California, world’s 4th largest economy. Not some tiny pilot project or a niche experiment, a global industrial powerhouse
If you’re still sitting in boardrooms or parliament banging on about baseload and the intermittency of renewables, you’re not just wrong, you’re a dinosaur
California's 44% isn't an anomaly. It's a preview of the 2027-2030 reality for every major grid overbuilding renewables
The "technical barriers" the fossil fuel lobby loves to cry about are gone. We are shifting solar and wind into the night at a massive, industrial scale. We don't need expensive, inflexible coal or gas to keep the lights on; we need more storage and we need it now - everywhere
reneweconomy.com.au/grid-bat…
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
A zoo in Belgium turned its parking lot into one of the largest solar power plants in the world.
Pairi Daiza, voted Europe's best zoo, covered 80% of its 7,000 parking spaces with 62,750 solar panels.
The installation produces 20 megawatts of peak power, which is more than the entire zoo consumes.
The surplus charges electric vehicles at onsite stations and sells the rest back to the grid.
It's the largest solar carport in the world, and it was built on land that was already paved, over cars that were already there. Nobody had to choose between wilderness and energy production.
Covering all existing US parking lots with solar panels could generate 1.7 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity, which would power half the country.
Why aren't we funding this?
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Copenhagen completes transition to an entirely electric bus fleet thedriven.io/2026/04/01/cope…
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Petrol was never going to fade gently—it was always headed for a structural death spiral. A system built on extraction, transport, chokepoints and constant resupply was always going to collide with one built on physics, abundance and one-time installation. You can slice the data any way you like—geopolitics, supply chains, military strategy—it all points the same way. This was never “if.” It was always “when.” And it increasingly looks like that inflection point is now.
What people underestimate isn’t the technology—it’s the system dynamics. Sales are a flow. Fleet is a stock. Once the EV fleet reaches critical mass, the system itself starts doing the work. Oil demand doesn’t decline neatly—it breaks. Infrastructure unravels. Margins compress. Volatility rises. And that volatility accelerates the very transition that’s replacing it.
The pushback we’re seeing now is textbook disruption. Incumbents clinging to a model the world no longer needs. Complacency from those who think nothing really changes. And a strange hostility toward EVs, solar and batteries—not because they don’t work, but because they do, and they threaten the old order.
Oil runs on geopolitics. EVs run on physics. One depends on fragile global systems that panic under pressure. The other scales quietly, relentlessly, everywhere at once.
This isn’t a transition in the traditional sense. It’s a system replacement. And once you see it through that lens, everything happening right now starts to make perfect sense. ⚡🔋 #Bettrification
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Aber was machst du im E-Lkw, wenn du 10 Stunden in der Vollsperrung stehst?
​Kurzer Blick aufs Display: 78% Akku. Verbrauch im Stand: 3 kW.
Mathe sagt: Ich ĂĽberlebe hier locker eine Woche .
Mythos widerlegt durch Praxiserfahrung.
#ELkw
#ETruck
#Elektromobilität
#Logistik
#Transport – at Oldenburg (Oldenburg), Deutschland
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Turns out net zero is cheaper than a single fossil fuel crisis. 🤷
The sooner we build on clean, home-grown energy, the sooner we stop handing the keys to foreign gas markets. But we also need market reform now - so customers, not just corporations, actually reap the benefits of renewables.
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
96% of all new cars sold in Norway 🇳🇴 in 2025 were electric.
When I was in the Norwegian government we decided to go for electrical cars. There were many nay sayers. Now they keep mum. We made it!
There is no rocket science:
* Change the tax burden so that electric cars become cheaper relative to fossil cars.
* Start rolling out charging facilities.
* Give introductory offers to electric car owners - easier access to parking, traveling in bus lanes, reduced price on ferries.
The first buyers of electric cars were environmentalists. Now the buyers are - yes, everyone.
I have never met a person who said that he or she regretted the shift from fossil to electric. The electric car is simply a much better car. Even people who hate environment policies, love electric cars. They are:
* More high tech
* Much cheaper to run
* More fit for autonomous driving
* Less noise, less pollution
* Easier to heat in winter - you just use the app.
* Smoother acceleration
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Germany sets new record for largest solar carport!
The competition for the largest solar carport is national and international.
Solar carports are cool, literally!
pv-magazine.com/2025/11/26/g…
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Good morning with good news: Global solar deployment keeps smashing records!
About 3X more solar was built in H1 2025 than in all of 2021 and nearly 2X more than in all of 2022!
2025 global new solar (more than 700 GW) will smash the 2024 record!
semafor.com/article/10/31/20…
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Solar in many African countries is starting to take off🚀🌍
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Samuel knows best
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Motherfucking Wind Farms...
teapawt.org/B4r7_/status/195060893…
Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Solar's rise is the fastest in the history of electricity
It's not stopping - and can't be stopped - and will dominate electricity consumption by 2035, everywhere
*save this post*
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Swiss Solar Dude Dani 🇨🇠retweeted
Nach einer neuen Studie ist der größere CO2-Rucksack von E-Autos gegenüber Verbrennern bei der Produktion bereits nach 17.000 gefahrenen Kilometern ausgeglichen.
Danach sind E-Autos deutlich klimafreundlicher.
#Klimaschutz
