New #EV sales continues to collapse in the US. Nissan has abandoned its effort to turn its Mississippi plant to manufacture EVs, and is instead retooling it to make ICE and hybrid trucks and SUVs, likely to work around the 15% import tariffs for Japanese cars.

#cars

autoevolution.com/news/nissan-…

One aspect of driving an EV that doesn't get enough attention is regenerative braking. The Kia app has started showing how much power is fed back to the battery for each of my trips and it's typically around 40%. I'm surprised how high it is. ICE vehicles in contrast waste all of their forward momentum when braking.

I've heard of people with 10-year-old EVs in Hawaii who have had to replace rotors and other parts of the brake assembly while the pads look almost new.

#EV #driving

@SteveJB

in the #USA, all we can do is cry:

"#China car giant #BYD says it can thrive without #US"

bbc.com/news/articles/cy01ele4…

the rest of the world?

a massive #EV push through the roof

in #Australia BYD recently dumped a bunch of EVs to benefit from subsidies that were running out. but they were worried they'd have to sit on a massive stockpile of #cars that would go unsold for a long time

nope

the stupid #IranWar hit and sales shot to the moon in Australia, with a massive waiting list

China car giant BYD says it can thrive without access to US market

With the price of fuel rising China's BYD says it is positioning itself to benefit from the global shift away from fossil fuels.

^{Suranjana Tewari (BBC News)}

Much damage has been done to our societies and the #climate due to #fossilFuels

The alternative was always there, but it was systematically destroyed

Appreciate the irony though:

Big Oil's decline has been ensured by their greatest triumph, #Trump

The stupid war on #Iran means every country will move off #oil

#China's #EV makers are kings of the world now

"‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, #IEA chief says"

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Delorean aktuell med ny modell 40 år efter att de lade ner produktionen 1982 av den gamla Delorean DMG-12. Samma år som jag föddes!

Den nya modellen heter Alpha5 och är helt elektrisk såklart!

#ElectricVehicles #ev #delorean