What mattered this week

Britain bought more electric cars than petrol in the last 12 months

SRSLY??? First time ever. The “nobody wants them” line died.
Sales up? 59% year on year. The EV mandate everyone moaned about is… popular. 😄
Read more: Carbon Brief

Big moment: Laos just outlawed the petrol car and India’s Tuk-tuks hit 70% electric

Nah. Yes. From 1 June. All petrol and diesel vehicle imports for rest of 2026. Or longer?
Tuk-tuks? India’s three-wheelers, 70%. Cheaper to run – and big air quality benefits.
Read more: Laos: Eco-Business; Inda’s tuk-tuks Telegraph (£)

Big future: China’s replacing the diesel truck

Cars again? Bigger. Beijing wants 40% of its entire truck fleet – not sales, the whole fleet – electric by 2030.
Which is? 3.6 million trucks and 1–2 TWh of batteries. Once again, staggering.
Read more: Car News China

One thing to worry about

Nukes don’t operate properly when it’s this hot.

Cooling water got too warm in France this week. Plants had to throttle back. (MIT Technology Review; EuroNews)

One thing to be optimistic about

Europe uses 23% less energy than it would have done, thanks to efficiency.

Energy nobody had to generate, import or pay for. That's the cheapest, cleanest power there is: the kind you never use.

And no-one noticed. (Jan Rosenow)

If you’ve got more time…

You hear it constantly: another factory going dark, chalked up to net zero “madness”. Silly green targets, impossible energy bills, lights out.

A nice tale… just not true. Read more here