Nathaniel William Horadam

Electric vehicle registrations soar across Europe 🚗⚡️

🆕 EV share of car registrations is 28% in August 2025
🥈 Second highest month on record

Growth even more impressive in the UK reaching 38%.

Interactive dataset here 👉 european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/technology/e...

Exclusive | A Devastating Fire at a Major Ford Supplier Will Disrupt Business for Months The Novelis plant supplies about 40% of aluminum sheet used in the auto industry.

"Ford is the biggest user of the plant. Its F-150 pickup, the top-selling vehicle in the U.S. and the automaker’s main profit driver, is one of the industry’s biggest users of aluminum."

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The 1828 tariffs didn’t cause a depression. It was the end of the national bank that caused the Panic of 1837, after the president decided he hated the bank’s monetary policy and…oh...shit

One of the reasons this one may bite particularly hard is the lack of flex capacity in truck manufacturing.

1. Plants tend to be rural with little surplus labor
2. Manufacturing is very assembly-intensive (i.e., little automation)

Maybe some token announcements, but likely prices go up.

As someone else asked for the source…it’s Wikipedia using the FBI’s 2024 crime data.

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FBI (2024) via Wikipedia.

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago:

Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Amarillo
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

Sending Guardsmen into other states is only going to get more unpopular from here, and could very well turn into a liability for every R candidate in a competitive gubernatorial race next year.

Ds certainly should be running against it.

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

"The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July, the last month with data available. China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period."

Only losers bet on fossil fuels.
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Trump’s Team Hones Message on Economy: Just Wait Until 2026 Advisers are privately assuring the president that his policies will pay off.

It’s tough to see how economic indicators that are currently in a bad place get better without:

1. Wholesale abandonment of tariff and deportations policies
2. AI capex throttled, which would plunge the economy into recession but curb inflation and spur more rate cuts

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The Catholic Church is the greatest force for good in the world today.

I will not be taking questions.

THAT’S ALRIGHT, THAT’S OKAY. YOU’RE GONNA PUMP OUR GAS SOMEDAY

*begins rehearsing the gas pumping chant*

Gotta hand it to the other site. They’ve still got some incredible content.

We’re a second half team anyways.

LFG DORES!

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I feel dumber for now knowing who Theo Von is

17 years ago today, I woke up early & got to the front row of College Gameday on Vandy’s Peabody Campus, but had downed too much bourbon coke, needed to pee, ran out, and couldn’t get back into the Gameday zone.

All’s well that ends well. We beat Tommy Tuberville’s Auburn team 14-13 to reach 5-0.

Good morning, America.

Today we ride.

Anchor Down.

Honestly a pretty amazing timeline for anyone who saw the $1.5B deal Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed with Paramount, and asked themselves “I wonder how big that buyout clause is?”

We have literally like a billion of them sitting uncirculated at the Mint.

My dad used to buy rolls of them from the bank and search them for silver dollars. Which maybe he’d find 2-3 in a roll of 100.

Then he’d try to give some of the rest to my sister and me. It was so embarrassing to try and spend them that we finally told him to stop. I’d get the weirdest looks.

I’m sorry but impropriety aside, this is so funny. Who even wants or uses dollar coins anymore?

It’s all downhill after the first track.

Good thing you have friends like me who have above average takes in all the things

We have 1 hour, maybe 2, before this site is flooded with T-Swift takes.

Enjoy all other news while you can.

Can’t wait for those 3% CPI prints

Exactly this

GM Has Already Sold More Electric Vehicles In 2025 Than All Of 2024 With record Q3 EV deliveries, General Motors is gearing up to end the year on a very high note thanks to models like the Equinox EV.

GM has already sold more than 144,000 EVs in 2025.

Add in the Honda/Acura EVs, and GM’s Ultium platform is at ~193,000 units on the year.

Need to see how much things fall off in Q4, but 175,000 for GM EVs and 230,000 for Ultium in 2025 seem like good targets.

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