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Phil’s Electric Future

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EV enthusiast drove a lap around Australia a few weeks after buying it. Keen to learn more about the renewable energy future. Day job as a Registered Nurse. Views my own.

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And guess what's going to happen this year?

27.02.2026 13:06 — 👍 50    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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New global data confirms renewables are booming – and not just in the big economies Perhaps the most important feature of the latest monthly electricity data from the IEA is not that renewables dominate growth in electricity consumption but that every country is doing the same thing.

New global data confirms renewables are booming – and not just in the big economies reneweconomy.com.au/new-global-d...

22.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Kenya & Nigeria — two of Africa’s largest economies — are leading the push for local EV assembly to slash fuel import bills, cut emissions and build domestic manufacturing strength. Developing nations aren’t retracing the fossil path — they’re leapfrogging straight into #Bettrification. 🔋

21.02.2026 22:44 — 👍 27    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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"Bethelhem gave up driving her taxi 2 yrs ago. Rising cost of gas & spare parts needed to keep her old car meant that she couldn’t earn enough to make ends meet.
“It was no longer worth it,”

6 months later, she was back on the road, this time in a brand new BenBen E-Star, an EV made by Chang’an."

18.02.2026 11:39 — 👍 51    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 4
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🇬🇧 Larry the cat celebrates 15 years as Downing Street's chief mouser

The UK's most famous feline, Larry the cat, marks 15 years as the country's chief mouser patrolling the corridors of power of 10 Downing Street.

18.02.2026 10:00 — 👍 259    🔁 86    💬 6    📌 29
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Daytime power prices have never been lower. So why are bills rising? The benefits of extremely low energy prices during the day are "washed away" by extremely high ones after dark. But there is light at the end of the tunnel.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

07.02.2026 22:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data.

It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes.

Here’s what I mean 🧵👇

30.01.2026 08:06 — 👍 190    🔁 88    💬 14    📌 18
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Grid hits major milestone as coal, gas shrink amid 'tripling' battery discharge Amid fits and starts, Australia's energy transition turned a big corner in 2025, as renewables shot past fossil fuels despite demand records.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

28.01.2026 22:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In Australia, mostly Petrol is tanking due to EVs

19.01.2026 09:19 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
FSS 2026 update of IEA chart
@reneweconomy.com.au @fssau.futuresmart.com.au

FSS 2026 update of IEA chart @reneweconomy.com.au @fssau.futuresmart.com.au

IEA estimate of solar offsetting shiploads of coal based on 2023 data

Since then, tech improves, and in 2026, effectiveness of clean energy shiploads is up by up to 15%

But, efficiency of a ship full of coal or gas remains static
reneweconomy.com.au/one-ship-loa... @reneweconomy.com.au

16.01.2026 07:12 — 👍 29    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1
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Co-funded electric vehicle charging locations Fast charging electric vehicle infrastructure locations are being built across Queensland.

A program that was very helpful in QLD was the cofunded charger program that now allows charging at Tesla superchargers from Brisbane to Cairns, along with other providers around the state

www.qld.gov.au/transport/pr...

www.qrida.qld.gov.au/program/elec...

14.01.2026 06:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great service 👍

14.01.2026 03:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What was the problem with the charger?

14.01.2026 03:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Australia monthly vehicle sales by drivetrain to Dec 2025

Australia monthly vehicle sales by drivetrain to Dec 2025

Australia monthly vehicle sales by category to Dec 2025

Australia monthly vehicle sales by category to Dec 2025

Australia annual vehicle sales by country of origin to Dec 2025

Australia annual vehicle sales by country of origin to Dec 2025

Australian vehicle sales summary
Dec 2025 VFACTs + EV Council - 7Jan2027

BEV 10.6%
Hybrid (inc PHEV) 25.2%
ICE only drive train share 64.1%

SUVs 62% share of sales

>110 BEV models available in 2025
BEV 8.5% 2025 Aus annual sales

Country of origin: China now 2nd as total vehicles supplier

07.01.2026 04:10 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
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2025 China BEV Market Summary
#ChinaAutoMarket #electricvehicles

29.12.2025 10:02 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Vanda Solar & Battery Project - Solar, Wind & Energy Storage Company Singapore | Gurin Energy The Vanda Solar & Battery Project is a utility-scale solar and energy storage development, underpinned by 2,000MW of solar PV installed capacity and 4,400MWh of battery storage, ranking it among the l...

Maybe this project closer to the end user could be part of the reason?

gurinenergy.com/projects/van...

23.12.2025 12:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Australia's main electricity grid, the NEM, will soon have 40GW/113GWh of storage (not including Snowy2.0).

That's enough storage to power the grid for about 4.5hrs at average demand of ~25GW
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23.12.2025 03:59 — 👍 54    🔁 19    💬 5    📌 2

🚨New paper alert 🚨

Modelling the “S curve”: Transition Dynamics in EV Adoption - led by postdoc Omid Khajehdehi.

We propose a relatively simple but nonlinear opinion dynamic model with price, vehicle availability, and charging infrastructure metrics 🧵 1/

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

15.12.2025 23:31 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 3
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NEW ANALYSIS: Electric vehicles are entering the mid-transition space starting to replace ICE vehicles.

History shows that shifts like this can happen faster than expected: in the early 20th-century US, horses and mules virtually vanished from roads in under 30 years.

cdn.sanity.io/files/lrxd4j...

18.12.2025 15:14 — 👍 231    🔁 87    💬 19    📌 12
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EV adoption is taking off from Southeast Asia to Latin America, with many countries leapfrogging advanced economies and reaching high EV share 🚗

Strategic benefits of transport electrification:
🏭 new industries
🛢️ lower fossil imports
🌬️ cleaner air

https://loom.ly/pMmY5Y8

17.12.2025 07:30 — 👍 33    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 4
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#BYD 's Electric Buses Secure Victory at German Design Award 2026!
The BYD B12.b HF and the 18‑meter battery electric articulated bus B18.b have both been honored with this award.

12.12.2025 08:23 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We often hear experts tell us that the global shift from fossil fuels is glacially slow. The reality is that we’re living through the fastest energy transformation in human history.

12.09.2025 03:38 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Red Texas is a leader in renewable energy deployment.

The state's solar surge proves that the energy transition defies politics.

07.12.2025 10:31 — 👍 2284    🔁 590    💬 165    📌 59
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How solar and big batteries are shaping a new global gas market reality – and what it means for Australia reneweconomy.com.au/how-solar-an...

06.12.2025 19:35 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Price shocks force factories to dump gas for cleaner energy Industrial energy users are starting to turn away from natural gas after a jump in prices, and as solar systems, batteries and heat pumps become cheaper.

www.smh.com.au/business/the...
Strong counterpoint to the coalition’s fake arguments against renewables costs

28.11.2025 23:57 — 👍 324    🔁 82    💬 5    📌 4
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Tesla Just Opened Its Biggest Supercharger Station Ever—And It's Powered By Solar And Batteries Tesla's huge 164-stall charger in California is powered by solar panels and huge amounts of off-grid storage.

Love or hate Tesla, this effectively ends the argument: 11 MW of solar and 39 MWh of Megapack storage powering a 164-stall, fully off-grid Supercharger in California. Proof that not just transport, but electricity itself, no longer needs fossil fuels. The tech exists. The excuses are gone. #Lithium

29.11.2025 00:13 — 👍 49    🔁 14    💬 5    📌 0
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Will Net Zero cost $9 trillion to Australia? As the Nationals abandon their commitment to achieving net zero by 2050, leader David Littleproud has cited a stunning $9 trillion dollar price tag on the policy as a key reason for the move.

This by @skyelark.bsky.social was such a brilliant slaughtering of the LNP’s $9tn claim. Ley won’t even say the number anymore #ThePoint

thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

20.11.2025 23:10 — 👍 136    🔁 53    💬 6    📌 6
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Global #solar generation has grown exponentially since the #ParisAgreement, DOUBLING every 3 years ☀️

Solar share rose from generating 1% of global power in 2015 to 8.8% in the first half of 2025 📈

Emerging economies are now leading the growth 🧵 1/7

ember-energy.org/lat...

15.11.2025 12:00 — 👍 30    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 1
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@assaadrazzouk.bsky.social:

“Globally, renewables overtook coal in the electricity mix for the 1st time on record, up 7.7% in 1st half of 2025

Their share increased to 34.3%, up from 32.7% in the same period last y

Coal’s share dropped to 33.1% from 34.2%

Global gas generation also fell 0.2%”

15.11.2025 13:00 — 👍 25    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1