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Electrification of transport is essential to ensure Europe's energy resilience and achieve climate targets. This requires public EV charging infrastructure in the right places, at the right time and at the right prices. In this new @regassistproj.bsky.social report we present 7 key building blocks:

I completely agree. The way in which flexible energy resources respond to and then also influence prices is a very important yet under-researched topic. It's good that Lion Hirth is looking into this.

An die #Verteilnetzbetreiber: Werft mal #Claude an und integriert dieses Modell in eure Netzsimulationen! 🔌🔋 Ein aktuelles Papier von @lionhirth.bsky.social räumt mit einem hartnäckigen Mythos auf: #Heimspeicher entlasten das Netz, wenn sie auf dynamische #Direktvermarktungstarife reagieren! 👇

There's no @blakeshaffer.bsky.social on stage, but at least his drawings are being shown!

What do superhero duos and EU climate policy have in common? Both fall apart when one partner doesn't show up. 🦸 Our new staff blog looks at the duo soon teaming up to fight CO₂ emissions from Europe's road transport: the CO₂ standards for cars and vans, and the ETS2. 🔗 theicct.org/weakening-eu...

Similar ideas also floated around the EU: a sort of multiplier for the CO₂ targets (as proposed for EU-made small e-cars) if an EV would be capable of bidirectional charging / #V2G. As the article rightly points out, capabilities are not the crux; what matters is that users are able to use.

I expected more from this. ‘Right to charge’ legislation exists in various European countries and, given the previous UK strategy regarding the benefits of flexible charging for EV drivers (and the system as a whole), I had expected more focus here on the affordability of charging.

“A small country cannot move Europe’s market. But it can show Europe, earlier and more clearly than others, what works under normal conditions and what does not.” @patrickploetz.bsky.social on Sweden’s role in the electric vehicle transition

"Each two-wheeler generates about 60% of the particulate pollution of a four-wheeler per kilometer, and the fleet as a whole consumes about three times more fuel." @davidfickling.bsky.social #alwaysbecharging www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

EVs are rapidly taking over the auto market in Europe, with trucks not far behind. Oil-burners are on a fast track to the bin!

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Nederland wil een klimaatbelofte aan Brussel schrappen, maar wel de miljarden houden die het daarvoor kreeg. Het gaat om de CO2-belasting voor de industrie. Door die pas af te schaffen ná afloop van het coronaherstelfonds hoopt het kabinet te ontsnappen aan een boete van ruim 1 miljard.

I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

We’ve done it! Oxford St is now pedestrianised.

“Since Trump likes plaques, we should give him one as EV salesman of the decade. We will look back on 2026 as the year that it became entirely clear the Internal Combustion Engine was a relic” 👌🏻

Alexander Trott: "Germany exported at least 65,000 used electric cars in 2025. Six years earlier, the statistics reported 3,400. There is an order behind this: Europe's used market is a staircase." #alwaysbecharging #battchat www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...

Lest we ignore: “89% are in counties where life expectancies is already below the US average and 40% of the population within 3 miles of these projects are in low-income households.” Unregulated industrial policy may be good for aggregate growth but also likely propels all inequalities

"bans cars in bid to revive its fortunes" 👏

NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: Even on 100% gas power, heat pumps cut emissions by ~48% and EVs by about half. The authors of an “electrification doesn’t cut emissions” paper made a series of compounding mistakes and used misleading assumptions. Here's why. janrosenow.substack.com/p/heat-pumps...

Two bridges in Denmark. One from 1887, now mainly for cyclists. One from 1998, where cyclists aren’t allowed. Which one moves most people?

Schwer auszuhalten, das Framing dieser Überschrift. Es ist natürlich nicht der Elektroboom, der VW die Milliarde EUR kostet - sondern das VERSCHLAFEN des Elektrobooms! www.elektroauto-news.net/news/elektro...

The world needs the UN. And the UN needs us all. This United Nations Day, we reaffirm the importance of working together to tackle global challenges that no single nation can solve alone. We remain committed to working with the UN towards a more peaceful, just and sustainable world. 🇪🇺🤝🇺🇳

This year has been a particularly wild ride, with NEV sales plummeting in Jan after a decade-long purchase-tax exemption ended – only to recover in a matter of months For fun, here's a version of the chart with teeth:

Combustion-car sales volumes have also fallen two-thirds, from 16.1m in the first 9 months of 2017 to 5.6m in 2026 Next time you hear about job losses, factory closures or financial struggles at western carmakers, remember these stats – and fact that China is world's largest car market

In September, the world’s largest car market continued a clear trend: 67% of new cars have a plug (47% battery electric and 20% plug-in hybrid). That’s huge. Or, as they say in Berlin, it's still a multi-million market for cars with combustion engines.

Helfen können hier beispielsweise einfach gestrickte Beteiligungsgesetze, Standardverträge und Unterstützung durch die Landesenergieagenturen. Im Energieportal Brandenburg kann man z.B. nachschauen, wie viele Geld man als Gemeinde erhalten müsste: energieportal-brandenburg.de/cms/inhalte/...

Mittlerweile verpflichten die meisten Bundesländer die Betreiber von Wind- und Solarparks dazu, die Standortgemeinden finanziell zu beteiligen (siehe z.B. hier www.fachagentur-wind-solar.de/wind/finanzi...). Ende gut, alles gut für die lokale Akzeptanz der Energiewende? Ein kurzer Thread👇

Contrary to conventional wisdom, a new Brattle report finds that batteries have up to 66% *more* system value when placed at the grid edge, distributed, rather than centralized in large utility-scale installations.

Concerning news re: where Germany is at with the EU Social Climate Fund cleanenergywire.org/news/germany...

Electrification is an efficiency revolution and a fundamental reorganisation of energy systems. Less energy, fewer imports, more security. I'll make the case at @oxmartinschool.bsky.social on 19 Nov, in person & online: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/elect...

What most people don't know: when you fill up a petrol car most of the energy never moves it. Petrol car: 13–21% of the crude oil's energy reaches wheels. Electric car on today's UK grid: 43–45%. Electric car on wind+solar: 77–80%. That's why we don't need to replace fossil energy one for one.

Analysing 854 urban areas across 30 countries (EU-27, UK, Norway and Switzerland) researchers from Imperial College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that climate change is responsible for about two thirds of this summer’s estimated heat deaths. [3/4]

Over 50,000 estimated to have died in urban areas during Europe’s sweltering summer in 2026, with climate change responsible for two thirds, finds two new studies by @lshtm.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social in @nathealth.nature.com @clairbarnes.bsky.social explains the findings 🎬 👇 [1/4]

Neuer Blogpost: Während Merz das mit Macron vereinbarte "Aus vom Verbrenner-Aus" feiert, gelingt der E-Mobilität gerade in DE, FR und global der Durchbruch. Was heißt das für die deutsche Autoindustrie? steady.page/de/climate-a...

The world’s largest battery-electric ship, a 130-metre vessel made in Australian by Incat Tasmania, has officially started ferrying passengers between Argentina and Uruguay https://thedriven.io/2026/10/23/worlds-largest-battery-electric-ship-starts-ferrying-passengers-and-it-all-started-in-tasmania/

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

For economists out there, here's a great example of cross-elasticity of demand.

Patrick Graichen trifft den Nagel auf den Kopf: "Das Erstaunliche an der ganzen Diskussion ist aus meiner Sicht, dass die Union und weite Teile der Presse die Frage des Verbrenner-Aus immer noch weitgehend unter der Rubrik 'Klima' diskutieren. Verstehen Sie mich nicht falsch, ich bin überzeugter...

For the first time in over 40 years, France has granted a lithium mining concession. Once operational, the mine could “power 700,000 vehicles per year”.