🔗 Articles: Wed 06.Mar.2024

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NYT: Trump’s Victory Speech After Super Tuesday Conjures a Dark Vision

As he dominated the Super Tuesday battlefield, former President Donald Trump warned of dark days ahead if President Biden were to win a second term. “We’re a third-world country,” he said repeatedly.


CleanTechnica: EVs At 24.8% Share In UK — Tesla Back On Top

February saw plugin EVs at 24.8% share of the UK auto market, up from 22.9% year on year. Full electric volume increased by 1.21× YoY, with plugin hybrids up by 1.29×. Overall auto volume was 84,886 units, up 13% YoY and the highest February in 20 years. Tesla was the UK’s leading BEV brand.

February’s results saw combined plugin EVs at 24.8% share, with full electrics (BEVs) taking 17.7% and plugin hybrids (PHEVs) taking 7.2%. These compare with shares of 22.9% combined, 16.5% BEV and 6.3% PHEV, year on year.


Electrek: The best electric bikes you can buy at every price level in Feb 2024

Here at Electrek, we’ve spent countless hours doing detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through thousands of miles of riding, we’ve learned these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That dedication to real-world e-bike testing has helped us find the best electric bicycles on the market for just about any budget.


Last Updated: 06.Mar.2024 17:07 EST

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🔗 Articles: Sat 02.Mar.2024


The Guardian: ‘I was in despair’: how lending a phone led to life savings being stolen

“I was in a bit of an emotional state. My phone had gone and I was panicking,” she says. “I could not pass the telephone bank security as I didn’t know my passwords. Why would I? I never call them as I do all my banking on my mobile, and all the telephone banking passwords are completely different. They said I had to visit the branch.”

What she had forgotten was that lots of her sensitive financial information was in a Notes file on the stolen mobile. Although the pin for the lost Metro Bank debit card wasn’t listed in the file, it did list the pin for another card. The thief must have found the note, and assumed that like most people Souret used the same pin for all her bank cards. She did.


Trump’s Team is Celebrating the Supreme Court’s Immunity Decision

The former president is now highly unlikely to stand trial in the Justice Department’s election interference case before November.

The supreme court handed Donald Trump a massive victory on Wednesday by agreeing to rule on whether he is immune from prosecution for acts committed while he was president. The court will hear arguments on April 22 and won’t hand down a decision until June — which means it’s unlikely a trial in the Justice Department’s election interference case will commence before the election. If Trump wins the election, he’ll of course appoint an attorney general who will toss the case, regardless of how the Supreme Court rules this summer.

Make America tumultuous again!


Micromat: APFS support status

Likewise, while the Volume Rebuild can repair many drives with volume structures problems, a full rebuild that reorganizes the volume structures can only be implemented once Apple provides further documentation.

It is important to note as well that Techtool Pro uses a low-level API to test, repair, rebuild, and defragment Mac OS Extended volumes. No such API yet exists for APFS, and it is unclear if Apple will make one available.


Guardian: UK quits treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over climate policies

The UK is pulling out of a treaty that lets fossil fuel firms sue governments over their climate policies.

The UK will quit the controversial energy charter treaty (ECT) after efforts to align it with net zero emissions plans failed, the government announced late on Wednesday.

The treaty allows fossil fuel investors to sue states for lost profit expectations in an opaque corporate arbitration system set up to protect fossil fuel investors in the former Soviet economies in the 1990s.

The good news: neither Canada nor the US are signatories.


BBC: Why alcohol is so dangerous for young adults’ brains

How might these findings affect an adolescent’s choices – and their parents’ decisions around how and when to allow them to drink at home?

“Our message is delay as long as you can,” says Squeglia, “because your brain is still developing, and let your brain develop and be as healthy as it can before you start engaging in things like alcohol and other substance use.”

Several myths to overcome.


CleanTechnica: More Affordable Electric Cars Are Starting To Arrive In More Places Around The World

$25,000 seems to be the magical number when it comes to the upfront purchase price of EVs to get things going into overdrive in the EV world. Well, at least, that seems to be the general consensus on a lot of platforms. Which is why there has been a lot of excitement around a potential $25,000 compact car from Tesla. Before that particular vehicle becomes a reality, there is already some similar activity around the world, with several OEMs now ramping up deliveries of sub-$25,000 BEVs.


Last Updated: 02.Mar.2024 23:59 EST

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📰 Electrek: Hyundai and Kia surge past Ford, GM for second in US EV sales

Tesla remained on top (by far) with 55% of the share. …price cuts helped bounce back from an all-time low in Q3.

[It] captured 4.2% of the total US market with over 650,000 deliveries, topping Volkswagen, Subaru, and BMW for the first time. …

Hyundai capped off a record year with nearly 47,000 IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 6 EVs sold, while Kia sold almost 19,000 EV6 electric crossovers. It also began delivering its first three-row electric SUV, the EV9, with 1,113 sold in December.

link: EVs Take 55% Of The German Auto Market In December!

CleanTechnica: EVs Take 55% Of The German Auto Market In December!

The tide has turned in the electrification of the German auto market, with plugin electric vehicles taking the majority of sales for the first time in December. Plugins took 55.4% of the month’s passenger auto sales, with full electrics taking a third (33.2%), and plugin hybrids taking over a fifth (22.2%). Plugless hybrids took 12.8%, leaving less than a third of sales for combustion-only autos (31.8%).

Ha! GM is adding 540 fast chargers a year to its network. But, they’re still using dorpy “refueling” pictures in their promos!

GM promo picture of people "refueling" their EVs hanging onto the "nozzle"!  (probably ©GM)