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No, EVs are NOT the new 'diesel scandal' waiting to happen @BjornLomborg & @DailyMailUKI know I should not feed the trolls but I've completely had it with Bjorn Wormtongue LomborgI

Allow me to debunk a nonsensical scare story in the @spectator yesterday, claiming electric cars are impossible because they would lead to a complete replacement of the electricity grid.https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-s-green-indu

Frans Verbruggen and I determined that you save a whopping 3t if you redesign your truck with electric motors close to or in the wheels.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332780799_Evaluation_of_the_state-of-the-art_of_full-electric_m

In the Netherlands there is much ado about a new ENCO study showing NUCLEAR is cheap. It apparently convinced more than half of parliament. But it is riddled with errors

Here's a series of four online lectures I gave about electric vehicles.First on the differences between combustion and electric vehicles. As you can see from the slide, electric motors are

@BillGates shares my vision on electric transportation, except for a significant detail: large trucks.Let me explain in a few tweets why I think the idea that most big trucks cannot

Our recent study is on the front page of @derspiegel! Germany's most visited news website!Translated title:"Electric cars emit much less CO2 than assumed so far"Let me give links to the

Some sunday ruminations on how renewable energy and meat replacements could simply make us happy and harmonious without starting a culture war. First of: green growth doesn't mean less prosperity.

Electric micro mobility offers holds huge promise. Allow me a short thread with some observations.https://twitter.com/chrisnelder/status/1263654099498627072 The first is that we should not be so surprised. The car has become the

In reaction to this thread of @MLiebreich (with reactions of @bryworthington) let me explain why I think eTrucks (not hydrogen, not trucks with catenary overheads) will corner most of the

EV's are already THREE times better!Today @transenv came out with the best study in the world right now on the CO2 emissions of electric vehicles versus diesel or petrol. They

For 42 years, the @IEA scenarios have been used as predictions. Seen from that perspective they have been phenomenally succesful in underplaying the role of renewables and bolstering investments in