Renault swings to profit on EVs despite rise of Chinese rivals reut.rs/4vWOE1S

Renault swings to profit on EVs despite rise of Chinese rivals

Renault posted a 9.4% rise in first-half revenue on Wednesday and swung back to profit thanks to strong electric vehicle sales, ​as it withstood growing pressure from incumbent rivals and Chinese newcomers ‌on car prices across Europe.

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👀 Next year's update will be interesting since I've just installed PV, MVHR and finally topped up loft insulation 😁

It's been 1yr since I installed a Grant HP290 heat pump and @newarkcylinders.bsky.social in my house! 🏠 Space heating SCOP 4.8 🚿 DHW SCOP 4.3 📊 Combined SCOP 4.7 💰 Running cost on Agile with battery: £567/yr 🛢️ Previous oil boiler would cost £2k to deliver same heat (72% saving)

Why does the BBC call Generation Z “Gen Zee”? We’re not American!!!!! If it’s anything, it’s “Gen Zed”. The letter is Zed. Not Zee. Sort it out! 🤬😡😤

U.S./Musk-aligned propaganda accounts continue their disinformation and disruption campaign targeting Europe. This time, they are focusing on Spain.

🧵UK media has been duped about net-zero (again) The playbook is identical: 1️⃣ Find a big scary number 2️⃣ Speed-dial non-specialist hacks 3️⃣ Do say “serious economic damage” 4️⃣ Don’t say “we pretended gas is free” 5️⃣ That's it! Many papers still fell for it 🤷

Why is anyone sane using windows these days is beyond me

Michael Mishak@mjmishak.bsky.social · last wk.

SCOOP: Internal Microsoft records reveal a "mad dash" inside the world's largest software maker as engineers and managers scramble to patch vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos: www.propublica.org/article/anth...

Given Windows is 90% bugs, a chore indeed.

Michael Mishak@mjmishak.bsky.social · last wk.

SCOOP: Internal Microsoft records reveal a "mad dash" inside the world's largest software maker as engineers and managers scramble to patch vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos: www.propublica.org/article/anth...

ICE drivers love saying EVs are inconvenient. Funny, because most trips start and end near home. Co Charger makes that first charge simple: plug in locally, skip the detour, and keep your day moving.

Speak Truth...

Tesla Autopilot and FSD crashes hit record 207 in a single month

Tesla Autopilot and FSD crashes hit record 207 in a single month

Tesla reported 207 crashes involving its driver-assist systems in a single month — the most it has ever logged. The figure comes from Tesla’s own crash reports to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The record month lands as Tesla pushes Full Self-Driving harder than ever, and as the company continues to redact nearly every detail of what actually happened in these crashes.

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When the US fled Afghanistan all the world could talk about prominently for years was the military equipment left behind, not the millions of women and girls who became slaves overnight and continue to live in hell.

Who else hated “common sense” and find it not so common, or at least differing from reality and science most the time

I don't usually share petitions but this is one I must highlight... The way Making Tax Digital is being implemented is disgraceful. It punishes people who are already fastidious about their tax reporting by forcing them to share data with commercial firms. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Create a government-owned, free software for Making Tax Digital (MTD)

With the roll-out of Making Tax Digital going ahead, HMRC must provide an in-house, government-developed, fully-functional software that allows easy and confident compliance with MTD. Self-employed pe...

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Two-thirds of global energy is wasted, mostly as combustion heat. Electrification gets rid of most of that waste rather than replacing it. From my keynote at the Eurelectric PowerSummit.

Good on @mayor.nyc.gov for creating a Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew for NYC! PIT Crews do critical work researching and developing tech that makes peoples' lives easier. We're very proud of EFF's PIT Crew and the work they do to defend civil liberties and enhance privacy & security online 💻🖤

Mamdani forms Public Interest Technology crews to improve government efficiency and affordability

The city will hire teams of technologists who will work through city departments to streamline their online portals to make them easier to navigate.

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Japanese scientists have confirmed a monumental discovery: asteroid Ryugu contains all 5 nucleobases essential for DNA and RNA. By analyzing 5.4 grams of material returned by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, researchers identified adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil in similar proportions.

EFF recently joined 60+ organizations raising serious concerns about the UK government's plans to deploy facial age estimation to assess asylum-seeking children. Join us in calling on the Home Secretary to immediately halt these plans by signing this petition. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/s...

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

Nobody wants EVs” is now a decade-old genre of journalism. Over that decade, EV share of new UK car sales went from 0.3% to 25%. The genre hasn’t aged well.

I am on strike at Goldsmiths. On going action against redundancies. Universities are being crushed and staff cut up and down the country. Resistance is necessary, education is under threat (and with it our jobs).

So proud they have to conceal their identity

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

Fuck Russia and trump

Been over a year since an episode of this podcast has been released . Health and family (new baby) have been taking most of my time . We might return one day

Take It EV podcast@takeitevpodcast.com · last yr.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Take It EV: Reform vs. Renewables: Is the UK's Green Future at Risk?. Featuring Dan Caesar and Quentin Willson Have a listen: share.transistor.fm/s/3400766d

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Kia reveals PV5 prices in Canada as a new affordable EV option

Kia reveals PV5 prices in Canada as a new affordable EV option

Kia’s first electric van, the PV5, is set to go on sale in Canada soon. Kia said the P5 is yet another affordable EV the company plans to launch in 2026.

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It’s called embezzlement

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · last mo.

At least seven firms have collectively donated £485,000 to Reform UK while on the brink of being dissolved, struck off, or otherwise in apparent distress, @bylinetimes.bsky.social analysis has found bylinetimes.com/2026/06/29/t...

Best feeling , form number of days (minus car charging at night on one occasion ).

RECORD YEAR: 2025 was the biggest year ever for renewables. A record 692 GW was added, mostly solar. More importantly, non-fossil sources generated 43% of the world's electricity and fossil generation fell. More in Bright Spots: open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

Renewables just had their best year ever

2025 was a record year for clean power but still falling short of what is needed

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