Oversized SUVs and trucks worsen a slew of societal problems, including crash deaths, climate change, and tire pollution.

But rather than restrain car bloat, federal policy has actively encouraged it.

In Vox I explained how. 🧵

vox.com/future-perfect…

In so many ways, Russia is a great country. Also highly educated and culturally advanced.

But now Russians accept that their news must only come from the Tsar at the top, so he can keep the truth from them...

It breaks my heart to see a proud people willingly being enslaved.

A little more resiliency built into public EV charger controls could boost the reliability at entire stations in a couple of common situations, DOE researchers say in a critical look at charging station layouts. greencarreports.com/news/1143010_e…

BYD sells EVs in the West for *more than double* the price in China!

Why?
Because even then, it's competitive.

Expect very very cheap EVs in the future that ICE cars simply can't compete with.

The age of the ICE is over.
autoblog.com/2024/04/28/why…

Complete, utter, self-entitled hypocrite.

The damage this man has done.

Jeremy Clarkson walks back previous climate change dismissal as ‘a joke’.

#climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateRefugees #ClimatePolicy Jeremy Clarkson
independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

Right wing populist proposes to change the Italian constitution:

Italy needs the sovereign right to protect public health from non Italian food, and especially meat alternatives.

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

I've been working on this story for a loong time, on the veterinary profession's complicity in factory farm cruelty & the vets who are fighting to change it. It taught me a lot about power & how people who wield it come to look away from extreme suffering

vox.com/future-perfect…

Au revoir UK small modular reactor (SMR) ...

'Rolls-Royce scales back plans to build nuclear factories in UK. '

#nuclear #nuclear energy #SMR
telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Oh I think some police are very much in sight

Most of the kids are alright. This is what we need more of on our campuses: youtube.com/watch?v=QY25eF…

Conspiracies, fake grassroots communities on Facebook, hate speech and racism. All to fight the existential evil that is...

low emission zones in London.

'Despite constituting less than 1% of the U.S. population, Indian-Americans are 3% of the nation's engineers, 7% of its IT workers and 8% of its physicians and surgeons.'

forbes.com/2009/02/24/bob…

India allocates 1.5 GW of solar at $0.031/kWh pv-magazine.com/2024/04/04/ind… - great to see real low-cost solar PV in #India and much more will be needed: nature.com/articles/s4146…