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Renewable Friday: Federal EV Incentives end Sept. 30 [1]
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Date: 2025-09-05
We continue to have more EV news than usual as consumers snap up the last bargains that come with up to $7500 off from the government. Some state incentives remain. And nothing can stop Chinese EV technology from spreading around the world. Meanwhile, we continue on the exponential part of the technology growth curve for renewables and storage, setting new records all the time, while coal, oil, and gas continue to die the Death of a Billion Cuts.
x Rivian's CEO Explains What Everybody Gets Wrong About Chinese EVs "The cars are actually better." Whether China's automakers got ahead thanks to government investments or labor costs or leveraging Western IP doesn't matter now—it's a question of product vs. product.”
[image or embed] — Handgun Yoga 🇺🇦💙 (@handgunyoga.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Rivian's CEO Explains What Everybody Gets Wrong About Chinese EVs
Will Chinese EVs come to America? Not in the way you think, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said on the Plugged-In Podcast. “I think everyone should be planning for that and designing [their] technology stack around that,” he said. But the fixation on cost is all wrong, he argues. “What’s alarming, if you’re looking at the whole industry, is that the technology is much better,” he said, referring to China’s EV industry. “If I was an existing manufacturer, I’d get less hung up on the cost and more focused on ‘the cars are actually better.” Chinese firms can also develop new models in months, rather than years. Some EVs can charge at incredibly high rates. On top of all that, many outsiders have said they’re built just as solidly as German luxury cars.
Chinese cars WILL be built in the US, bypassing the punitive tariffs. Not without obstacles being put in their way, of course, but as always, we are talking about the lure of $$Real Money$$™. You can always talk to Republican businessmen about $$Real Money$$™, even if not to their politicians.
Denial and Obstruction vs. Resistance and $$Real Money$$™
No, not The Onion. No, not Borowitz. The NYT.
x At Space Force, for instance, officials are studying whether wind turbines can open portals into evil universes that might allow radioactive megafauna to eat human babies.
[image or embed] — Robert Ferry (@robertferry.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
“Structural barriers” are not real barriers. They are political choices that we can undo.
x 🔌NEW: Our new study with Abacus Data finds that the reason Canadians aren't adopting clean technologies even faster isn't for a lack of interest—they are keen on them—but structural barriers that get in the way. Read our media release👇
cleanenergycanada.or... #cdnpoli #EV #onpoli #bcpoli
[image or embed] — Clean Energy Canada (@cleanenergycanada.org) September 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
12-part thread, pointlessly blocked from sharing, but not from quoting.
1/12 🇨🇦 CANADIAN ECONOMIST FUELS TRUMP'S 'INSANE' WAR ON CLIMATE SCIENCE 🇨🇦
Ross McKitrick co-authors controversial DOE report alleging humans may not cause climate change. Now cited to abolish oil and gas regulations.
#CarbonBrief 4/12 The 151-page DOE report pulls together what scientists call 'an embarrassing collection of cherry-picked statements.'Carbon Brief identified over 100 false or misleading claims.It disputes oil and gas industries' role in heating the atmosphere. #CherryPicking
x 🌐 One flag invites another: Swedish #ClimateDenial isn’t just homegrown. A new #Socius study by Drs. Anton Törnberg & Victoria Vallström shows how global #ClimateSkeptic content fuels far-right, antiestablishment alliances online. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
[image or embed] — Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (@sociusjournal.bsky.social) September 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Joe Rogan is helpful on the Epstein docs, but still nothing else.
x Ratepayers could have saved $400 million last winter if the 3.5 GW of offshore wind in New England was operational. Meanwhile, Trump just halted construction on Rhode Island's Revolution Wind and is trying to ban wind energy entirely. You can thank Trump when your energy bills continue to rise.
[image or embed] — LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 (@lcv.org) September 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
x Dutch pension fund PFZW, one of Europe’s largest, has "pulled…about €14.5bn from BlackRock in part because of concerns over the US asset manager’s voting record on sustainability issues".
www.thetimes.com/us/business/...
[image or embed] — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Taking down another moldy old lie.
x Old Solar Panels Built in the Early 1990s Are Still Going Strong After 30 Years at 80% Original Power.
www.zmescience.com/ecology/rene...
[image or embed] — Dr Paul Dorfman (@drpauldorfman.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
x TRUMP'S IDIOTIC ANTI-WIND POWER POLICY!
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey urged President Donald Trump to stop the government’s push to halt offshore wind developments, saying more electricity supplies are needed to help consumers struggling to pay already-high utility bills.
[image or embed] — drgk1 (@drgk1.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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