Wow…not just flat footed, tin eared to boot is our new UK PM, Andy #Burnham.

#EV
#ClimateBreakdown
#Labour

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/14/andy-burnham-new-ev-sales-targets

For global South cities, electric buses and two- and three-wheelers offer lower costs, cleaner air, and energy independence.

https://www.thailand-business-news.com/business/299767-how-electric-vehicles-are-transforming-transport-in-developing-countries

#informaltransport #populartransport #publictransport #ElectricVehicles #EV #EVs #publictransit #TransportationJustice #TrufiAssociation #Senegal #India #Colombia #Chile

So here's the second charging frustration today. Bear in mind this is literally the first time I've ever charged away from home. So I'm a n00b learning it all for the first time. I'm not looking for help, I'm venting my spleen.

I am visiting family and friends and my #EV gets about 230mi (370km) on a full charge. My mom's house is about 205 miles. So I roll into her house with 24 miles range left.

I go to my friend's house and I have like 15 miles range left. I charge off his house (level 1) for a couple hours. Back to 24 miles. I look up on EVGo and find 2 chargers, both open, with the CCS1 port that I need. I drive over to them and I have 15 miles left when I get there. Both say chademo is available, but CCS1 is not. Thanks a fucking lot, EVGo. I call their support number because I don't have enough juice to hunt all over the city for something that actually does what the web site says it does.

They find me one that's not far away that really does have CCS1 working. I roll in with my car warning "Battery exhausted, power output reduced." It was estimating 8 miles of range left.

So I dropped it off, went to dinner. Ended up at 73% and all is well. I'll need to do the same thing tomorrow on my way home.

Infuriating that the EVGo web site says something is available and offers a certain connector when... it doesn't. That web site basically has one job.

Well we had a good look at the Kia PV5 Passenger and decided it’s far too compromised for us.

All the fixed glass and inflexible seating arrangement put us off. Perhaps if we had never had a Swiss army knife like JDM Minivan previously we could have adjusted.

Basically it is too 5 seat PSV minibus for us. I’d rather hire a van or minibus when I need one.

Van versions definatly make more sense. If only standard sheets of ply and plasterboard fitted in them.

Sad.

#PV5 #EV

We might find time to go look at a #PV5 #EV tomorrow. I mean book D’s car in for an MOT and service at our local Kia stealership, where they have at least one available… 🤞😬

So as much as I hate Facebook I’ve found a couple of ex long term Elgrand E51 owners who now have PV5. And they absolutely love them so thats good news and is very reassuring.

That and PBV sales peeps explaining current stock and availability has made venturing back to the dark place worthwhile. Still feel dirty about it.

If only I could find time to go test drive one & try work out a deal. We’re flat out getting #WierdHouse #woodenhouse ready & empty old house as sale is close 🙄

#PV5 #EV

🔌 Slate Auto's electric truck ships with no modem at all, and that's the privacy story.

The startup's $24,950 EV pickup has no built-in cellular connection, so the company physically can't track your location, remote-access the car, or pull data from it. A phone app handles settings and charging info, but it only works standing next to the truck, and Slate says app data is opt-in and never sold. Their words: "We collect data to make ownership better, not to turn the owner into the product."

The context matters. Mozilla's 2023 review called cars the worst product category it has ever reviewed for privacy, with 84% of brands sharing or selling driver data. The FTC banned GM from selling driver data in 2025 after OnStar collected location every 3 seconds. Meanwhile Ford published a patent application for in-car cameras that can read lips and facial expressions.

A policy can be rewritten next quarter, but hardware that doesn't exist can't be switched on. That's the durable part. One caveat from the EFF: the app data policy can still change as the company scales.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/slate-says-its-electric-pickup-will-never-track-you/
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

#privacy #EV #cars

Eee! EV charging point installation happening tomorrow! Gill’s worried that we d to hide it so people don’t come and steal our electricity while the car’s not on the drive, which sounds like some Daily Fail/Facebook fearmongering to me. Any of you EV owners out there experienced anything like that?

#EV

We’re seriously considering buying a #PV5 Passenger 5 seat Plus #EV now.

I havent driven one yet but all reviews seem to indicate I’ll be happy there (we ran an Elgrand E51 for 10 years and loved it so size is close).

Its V2X “ready” so hopefully there will be a compatible charger/system so we can use it as a home battery later.

Has anyone got one that can offer insight into living with a PV5 long term? Or know where I can find owners moaning etc without going on Facebook?

#weirdcarmastodon

Alt...

A profile view of a white and black Kia PV5 van parked on an asphalt surface. The top portion of the vehicle, including the roof and window pillars, is black, while the lower body is white. Large windows are visible along the side, alongside black wheel arches and black wheels with silver trim. In the background, there is a corrugated metal building, green foliage, and part of a curved roof structure. The scene is set outdoors during the day. 🌱 Energy used: 0.182 Wh

How about a solar powered EV?

https://www.solarkycar.com/

#WeirdCarMastodon #EV #Solar

🔌 This country went 100% electric vehicles overnight with a drastic approach

｢ The country runs almost entirely on hydropower and has built its export strategy around selling electricity to its neighbors. But it imports every drop of the fuel its cars burn, and that fuel bill is paid in foreign currency Laos is chronically short on. Every gas car swapped for an electric one runs on domestic hydro instead of imported diesel. That’s the whole game ｣

https://electrek.co/2026/07/22/laos-bans-gas-diesel-car-imports-ev/

#EV #EVs

Has anyone out there, who has built their own #EV or an EV conversion, also built in remote management tools into the car?
I'm still in the planning stages but it would be interesting to see what Home Assistant or other open source server setups could be used in a DiY EV build or conversion.
#opensource #maker #homelab #DIY #evbestoptions #remotemanagement

BYD's "Denza" #EV Supercar.

"0-100 kph" (62 mph) in a blistering 1.96 seconds. 😱
https://www.autoblog.com/news/byds-porsche-rivaling-hypercar-has-already-crossed-1000-orders

Want to know how much it costs to run an #ev in different European countries?
Check out The Zaptec Index https://www.zaptec.com/zaptec-index
Full disclosure: I work for Zaptec, so interested in any feedback/suggestions...

I can't work out mindset of folk who voluntarily put #dashcam in their #car and then repeatedly commit serious #traffic violations - one day they get unlucky and their own #surveillance footage is used against them in Court

Also a warning of how the danger from #stimulant #drugs and #driving isn't impairment during high but #SleepDeprivation these substances can cause

Now one man is dead, another has fucked up his life big time (had 0 previous convictions, a well paid career as an #electrician and was driving a high end #Mercedes #EV ).

Social media shows offender appears to have a young son, who is probably going to get bullied in subsequent years at school when kids taunt him about "Daddy having been in #jail "

#RoadSafety #driving #England #UK

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2026-06-25/drug-driver-jailed-after-causing-fatal-crash-when-16-times-over-legal-limit

An interesting #ev caveat I discovered today:

If you do short trips and charge at home, so your battery is always above 95% charged, you will wear your brakes out faster.

Our BYD Atto 2 caps regen braking at 17kW when the battery is nearly full. The rest of the kinetic energy is wasted as heat and turning brake pads to dust.

When driving around today under 90% the regen braking was peaking up around 40kW.

I'm going to tweak my automation to only charge to 90% by default.

@vfrmedia @eFlex @LJClements8

We can only hope our demands and outrage trigger more car companies to offer old VW bus level of sophisticated tech (none) in a car, at the price (low) and ease of use, of that same old VW bus. Just a new electric engine and a salt battery.

No interest at all in connected, or self driving, or heated seats rubbing my ass, or flight.

Or the police phoning to discuss things said in the car during that storm.

#climate #ev

More EV charging nonsense today.

Car park charger obviously working because there was a Volvo in the next space charging ok, but I couldn't get our side to fire up.

Two issues:
Firstly, the display screen QR code pointed to the wrong app! (#Autel)
Secondly, the contactless pay thingy wasn't connected to a network (3g?) and had a continuous error - so as the Volvo driver had realised, the only way to charge was through an app, but he'd worked out the correct app from the council sign! (#Fuuse)
So I downloaded yet another charging app and got the car fully fired up.

It shouldn't be this difficult!

#EV

Well, overnight granny charging was a success!

The car charged to 100% and 244 miles of range.

Yippee!

#MG5 #EV

Checking the weekend rally results, there were three Alpines entered. Two electric A290s and a petrol A110. One of the #EV A290s beat the A110. The other was only fractionally behind. They're quite different machines, but that's pretty cool.

Genuinely interested in who is using InstaVolt chargers at a frankly still-absurd £0.89/kWh - how are they even still in business? Are that many people using them off-peak at £0.60/kWh or are there some sort of further discounts for fleet users or something? #ev

What EV charger do people like for openness, repairability, and compatibility with intelligent tariffs? (UK)

#ev #righttorepair #open #energy

Edit: I have signed up to the Octopus Electroverse card, and Sue has signed up to ZapMap.

Thank you all for the advice. There may be more questions to come in due course.
_______________

UK EV owners.
Which charge card do you use/recommend, please?

We can only charge on a granny lead at home so will need to be able to use public charge points, urban and motorway.

Thank you.

#EV #Charging

Wow. This headline grabbed me. Frankly, I didn’t think it would happen before the end of this decade. And that was me being optimistic. The ‘headline?

This one:
“Record electric truck sales in March as historic 'price parity' with diesel achieved.” (Source: ABC)

Read more:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-04-09/record-sales-of-electric-trucks-price-parity/106526476

#RenewableEnergy #BEVTrucks #EV #Electrification #RoadTransport #NetZero

@nick Switching to #EV was one of my best decisions of 2025. I haven’t gone so far as to charge it on solar for free, but the cost savings in maintenance and off-peak electricity costs vs gasoline are huge. #MME

So it's not about cars or EVs or jobs.
It's just plain old stupid racism, Doug.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/stellantis-plant-brampton-ontario-ev-ford-9.7151265

#Canada #EV #China #Cars #Manufacturing #Jobs #DougFord

"Even Thailand’s Prime Minister is driving a BYD EV amid surging gas prices."

"BYD (making cars for just twenty years)
sold 120,000 NEVs --> overseas <-- in March, but the EV giant says this is just the start"

BYD is now the top seller in China, and during March 2026 alone, sold 120,000 outside China.

Now its opening 20 dealerships in Canada, this year.

https://electrek.co/2026/04/01/byd-sold-120000-nevs-overseas-claiming-this-is-just-the-start/

#climate #cdnpoli #ev #uspol

#EV promised cleaner air. Satellites say it’s finally happening.
"A pretty small addition of cars at the ZIP code level led to a decline in air pollution," said Sandrah Eckel, a public health professor at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine and lead author of the study. "It's remarkable."
The headline number is modest but measurable: for every 200 #ZEV added in a neighborhood, #NO2 levels fell by about 1.1% between 2019 and 2023.
https://electrek.co/2026/01/26/evs-promised-cleaner-air-satellites-say-its-finally-happening/

2026 Honda Super-One electric car transitions from concept to production unchanged

It’s not unusual for car brands to pull back from the more fanciful elements of a concept car for the production version, but the Honda Super-One arrives faithful to pre-production show cars.

https://www.drive.com.au/news/2026-honda-super-one-electric-car-transitions-from-concept-to-production-unchanged/

Fuck yeah purple!

#WeirdCarMastodon #EV

Alt...

Purple Honda Super One EV

Competing. North American auto manufacturing suffers from idonnwanna and misses the bullet train to tomorrow. Idonnwanna, a by product of oil saturated Boards of Directors who think compliance chants of "idonnwanna" will restore the Alamo

Volkswagen? Volkswagen just forges ahead.

GM says "ban Chinese EVs"

Volkswagen is now the top seller in China. China

"Volkswagen’s first custom-tailored EV rolls out as it retakes the top spot in China"

https://electrek.co/2026/03/13/volkswagens-first-custom-ev-rolls-out-after-taking-top-spot-in-china/

#climate #ev #cdnpoli #uspol

#FleetManagers across the whole country must take note of this incident and build in sufficient slack time for a #driver to try any unfamiliar #vehicle *before* they are expected to drive it with time pressures, and create #WorkCulture where they aren't afraid to say "I haven't driven an #EV or #automatic #car / #van before"

Ideally a colleague can sit in passenger seat with them and check they are using safe techniques - a go-kart or computer racing game is *not* suitable training, they often encourage left-foot braking which is exactly how someone more used to a #manual vehicle could make this dangerous mistake (its also a common problem with #seniors who get their first two pedal car after a lifetime of having 3 pedals to deal with) #RoadSafety #UK #Europe

@vfrmedia

Encourage and facilitate development in #EV #charging infrastructure to point its as easy to find and transparently priced as #petrol and #diesel

Price caps on EV charging points on motorways would help here. These are amazingly useful at the very high speeds: plug in the car, pop in for a quick biology break. But they're also 4x or more the cost of charging elsewhere. 2x would make EVs noticeably cheaper to drive long distances than petrol or diesel, but at the current motorway service station prices they're about the same and less convenient.

Invest in training and education of #mechanics (both for conventional and EV cars) and #electricians where private sector is lacking

Strengthening right-to-repair laws would also help: make sure that local mechanics can service these things without paying huge amounts.