The story isn't just that batteries are getting cheaper. It's that batteries are getting cheaper while gas is getting more expensive. When the disruptor's costs fall as the incumbent's costs rise, adoption can accelerate far faster than most people expect. #SWB #Bettrification #Renewables

Batteries are getting cheaper while gas gets pricier. Here’s why

The battery boom is accelerating Australia’s shift away from gas.

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Australians are voting with their wallets. #EV market share surged from 8.4% in January to 35.8% in June, more than quadrupling in just six months. Iran war, rising fuel prices, falling EV prices & supportive policy are making the economics impossible to ignore. Cost always wins. #Bettrification

Built in Europe, Austria's first Chinese electric trucks are rolling off the line at Steyr Automotive. 🔋 621 kWh CATL LFP battery 🚛 Up to 560 km range ⚡ 660 kW dual CCS charging (20–80% in ~38 mins) 💪 941 hp China's EV tech is now becoming part of Europe's industrial base. #Bettrification #EVs

Not just importing EVs—Volvo's building battery electric trucks in Queensland. Next-gen with 700km range coming. Local manufacturing, cleaner freight, quieter cities, zero diesel exhaust. This is real industrial shift and Australia stands at its gates. #EV

"Imagine a city that's pollution-free:" Volvo delivers first 10 Australia-made battery electric trucks, with 700 km range

Ten heavy-duty electric trucks have rolled off an Australian production line in a move experts say could slash emissions and change the way freight moves around the nation.

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Some still erroneously defend baseload power as if electricity systems haven't changed in 100 years. Solar. Wind. Batteries. AI. EVs. Demand response. Distributed generation. Objective hasn't changed, but optimal way of delivering reliable electricity. #Bettrification #SWB #Renewables

Beyond Baseload: The Evolution of Energy Grids

Baseload power is outdated. Discover why flexibility, renewables, and smart grids are the future—and why we don’t need 'always-on' coal or nuclear.

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China deployed 400k+ fully electric trucks in 2025. That's an industrial strategy at scale, not culture war. I project global EV truck sales at ~950k in 2026, accelerated by Hormuz oil shock. Expect surprises yearly, until diesel vanishes before forecasters finish lunch. #EV #LFP #Bettrification

One of the most significant aspects of this isn't just the 45% reduction. It's that IEA explicitly attributed it to the combination of solar, wind and battery storage reducing reliance on expensive gas generation. That's a major milestone, theory is now being reflected in real-world market outcomes.

China exports electrification. Ethiopia deployed 50 electric trucks at Bishoftu Airport (42 more soon) cutting fuel imports, costs, emissions. Heavy transport electrifies in emerging economies. This model ~ spreading across Africa, LATAM, & Global South. The energy transition is already being built.

Top 10 EV growth stories of June 2026, not because of biggest markets, but because they reveal where next wave of electrification is emerging. The transition isn't happening in one country anymore. It's becoming a global phenomenon, with breakthroughs appearing across Asia & Europe simultaneously.

Hopium is believing finance doesn't matter. That investors will cheer a 20-year, billion-dollar bet while solar, wind, and batteries get cheaper every quarter. Hopium is believing a plant that needs 90%+ utilization to breathe can survive in a grid drowning in near-zero marginal cost electrons.

Germany, same country that gave the world Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche, Audi & Volkswagen, has just seen battery electric vehicles become the best-selling powertrain for the first time. In June, BEVs outsold petrol, diesel, hybrids & plug-in hybrids individually, with BEV sales up 78% year-on-year.

In the birthplace of the car, EVs are now king: BEVs outsell gas cars in Germany

In June, for the first time, electric cars outsold each other powertrain in Germany, with sales up 78% since last year.

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Germany, same country that gave the world Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche, Audi & Volkswagen, has just seen battery electric vehicles become the best-selling powertrain for the first time. In June, BEVs outsold petrol, diesel, hybrids & plug-in hybrids individually, with BEV sales up 78% year-on-year.

In the birthplace of the car, EVs are now king: BEVs outsell gas cars in Germany

In June, for the first time, electric cars outsold each other powertrain in Germany, with sales up 78% since last year.

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With 57% of its electricity now coming from renewables, including 22% from solar & 21% from wind, Spain built one of Europe's most impressive electricity systems. Solar is now the country's fastest-growing source of power & has helped drive some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe.

For more than a century, energy was something we bought from distant monopolies. They owned the assets. They set the rules. We paid the bill. Now, for the first time in history, we can generate, store & control our own energy. More than just energy, this is a power transition! #Bettrification #EVs

The most important energy milestone of the 21st century. In 2025, renewables overtook coal to become the world's largest source of electricity generation for the first time in modern history. Coal powered the industrial age. Renewables appear set to define the electric age. #SWB #Bettrification

Here's cost analysis comparing France's new offshore wind program with the equivalent annual nuclear output. This is why France, poster child for nuclear power, is going balls deep into renewables. It isn't green ideology. It's economics, speed & energy security. Time is money. Cost always wins.

France isn't just building offshore wind, it's building long-term energy security. EU-approved support for 11.1 GW will generate almost 48 TWh a year, around 10% of France's electricity demand. Speed is money, cost always wins, and nuclear's share of the mix is shrinking. #SWB #Bettrification #Wind

Hainan Province in China, 10 million, roughly population of Portugal, will ban the sale of new petrol & diesel vehicles by 2030, becoming the first provincial-level region to do so. Hainan expects NEVs to make up 45% of all vehicles on the road by 2030, up from 23.75% in 2025. #Bettrification #EVs

China’s 10-million-population Hainan province to become first to ban ICE vehicle sales by 2030

China's Hainan province targets 2030 for full ICE vehicle ban.

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China not the biggest contributor. Despite generating huge amounts of plastic waste, decades of investment in waste collection, recycling, treatment & infrastructure mean far less leaks into rivers & the ocean than many assume. They're now among the most aggressive countries at tackling the problem.

The biggest barrier to EV adoption isn't battery technology. It's people forming opinions about EVs from other non owner's opinions rather than from their personal ownership experience. Disruption looks impossible from the outside & obvious from the inside. #EV #Bettrification

We tend to think of EVs as just transportation. Increasingly, they're distributed energy assets. Every battery on wheels can provide backup power, run equipment or help communities during disasters. As millions more EVs hit the road, that resilience scales automatically. #Bettrification #EVs #V2L

How EVs, hybrids are powering China's flood victims via V2L tech

With widespread power outages, residents are turning NEVs into makeshift power stations, giving them a lifeline to the outside world.

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Since 2010, solar has gone from a niche technology to the fastest-growing energy source in history. In 2025 it entered the steepest part of the disruption S-curve with another record year. Yet many analysts are already calling 2026 a "slowdown" while missing what's happening in absolute terms. #SWB

Modern solar systems repay their carbon debt in just 1–3 years & financial in roughly 3–8 years, depending on location & electricity prices. Rooftop solar is often quicker than utility-scale projects. Both are then followed by another 25–35+ years of clean, cheap & abundant electricity generation.

Norway will always be the GOAT of the energy transition. Instead of talking about the future, they proved it could be done & showed how. In 15 years, new car sales went from 0% to 99% electric, while the rest of the world kept arguing about timing and speed. #Bettrification #EV

Free charging in Nambucca while watching Belgium vs USA in our Tesla today on a break. Love the EV life. Charging, coffee + muffin and World Cup football beats standing at a petrol station any day. ⚡🚗 Belgium beating the USA made it even sweeter, no disrespect to the US team! #Bettrification #EVs

This is a much bigger story than a 1% decline. First time in modern history, the world's largest energy system — with more than 4.1 TW of installed capacity — appears to be showing a sustained decline in CO₂ emissions while electricity demand, industrial output & economic activity continue to grow.

In Australia, for decades, the number of petrol & diesel vehicles increased every year. But after BEV market share surged from 0.5% in June 2021 to 24% in June 2026, and total NEV market share (BEVs + PHEVs) reached 35.8%, we're now seeing the beginning of the end of the ICE age. #Bettrification

China's PM2.5 pollution fell by roughly 60% since 2013, one of the largest & fastest air-quality improvements ever recorded by a major industrial economy. What's remarkable is that it happened while China continued growing, industrialising & expanding electricity generation. #Bettrification #SWB

BYD to supply Poland's 2.4 GWh Siedlce energy storage project. Europe installed ~36 GWh of batteries in 2025 (+64% YoY), and annual deployments could reach 140–160+ GWh by 2030. At that scale, a 2.4 GWh project announced today would represent less than 2% of annual installations. #Bettrification

37% of new heavy trucks sold in China: now fully electric. Not delivery vans — 49-tonne heavy-duty rigs. This one swapped ~550 kWh in just 5 mins. Competitive, proven & inevitable. China's heavy EV truck sales surged 182% YoY in 2025, rising from single digits just two years ago.