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Melbourne, Victoria
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2 huge moves this week by Australia with global impact on climate and EVs. 🦘🧵
1st, Australia responded to the IRA big time. 🇦🇺 supplies 1/2 the worlds lithium + most other battery minerals. Much more will now be refined onshore. That means CO2👇10x + supply chain stability 👆
2nd, tonight Australia legislated strong vehicle CO2 standards to massively increase EV uptake in a >1m vehicles annual market. The standards are the most robustly designed I've seen globally (no loopholes!) and will save Aus motorists thousands of dollars on imported petrol.
These vehicle efficiency standards owe so much to the leadership of @Bowenchris + @CatherineKingMP and their excellent staff, and to @BJafari whose leadership of the Electric Vehicle Council has been pivotal. Bravo.
Good news! The FCAI no longer forecasts vehicle price impacts from New Vehicle Efficiency Standards. It told Fact Check today: "This is not a forecast on price impacts... Price and how penalties/credits are carried forward will be a matter for each brand" abc.net.au/news/2024-03-15/f…
"So Karl, next year if your vehicle you purchase doesn’t meet the standard as put out by the government you’ll have to pay a fine.... for the Ranger $6,000 more in the first year... The Mazda CX-5 you’re looking at $4,000 next year going up to almost $13,000 by 2029.”
Electric SUVs must be $47,200 cheaper to take off, and Cybertrucks would have to be discounted by $142,300, say the geniuses at @AAAcomms who have “assessed consumer preferences." 🙄🤦♂️ Meanwhile in the real world....
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"Without an analysis of power, it is hard to understand inequality or much else in modern capitalism.”
Nobel Economics prize winner Angus Deaton drops a bomb on his own profession and attacks some sacred cows of economic orthodoxy
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#1 Aus suburbs for EV deliveries: Rouse Hill and Werribee. Western Burbs ✊
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News from Tesla: we are leaving the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and resigning from its board. The FCAI has repeatedly made claims about new vehicle efficiency standards that are demonstrably false. We can't stand by that. Here's the letter. drive.google.com/file/d/1OPQ…
Days like today really show that @LilyDAmbrosioMP and the Vic Gov made a great call investing in big batteries.
And Victoria's spot power prices went from its ceiling high of $16,600/MWh to -$1000, as demand plunged by about a third. (Vis @AEMO_Energy )
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Pretty cool chart from my team at BloombergNEF. In 2012, the standard solar module was multicrystalline silicon, 15.4% efficient and costing $1.09/W in 2023 $. In 2023, standard is mono PERC, efficiency 21.3%, price $0.13/W.
ALT A BloombergNEF chart of solar module prices vs typical commercial solar module efficiency, by year, 2012-2023. The efficiency increases from 15.4% in 2012 to about 21.3% in 2023. The price falls from $1.09 dollars per W (adjusted for inflation, ie 2023 dollars) in 2012 to $0.13 in 2023.
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Reposting this video from euroncap. This Tesla safety system has been improved (over the air) since this video even from its already best-in-class performance.
@SenMarkey @SenBlumenthal – at North Bethesda, MD
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Results for Remote Mobile Teams in the NT electorate of Lingiari. Number columns are first % Yes, then % No and total votes. #auspol #referendum2023
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The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.
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🧵Since it is becoming hard to track, here is a thread of the simply astounding weather records planet Earth has started shattering in recent weeks:
1. Dramatic flood events have begun striking various countries around the world simultaneously this week.
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