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Colin Walker
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Head of Transport at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit @ECIU_UK
Cumbria
Joined October 2013
An awful lot of the debate around #ElectricVehicles does seem to boil down to people who’ve never owned an EV telling EV owners what it’s like to own an EV
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RT @Synchronicity34: At last! At LAST!! AT LAST!!! Industry gets it! No! Hydrogen won’t be powering cars!! And No!! Not trucks either!!…
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@tonybarber68390 @Telegraph Very possibly. But I also think they’re suffering a bit from a failure to offer new models since the Y
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RT @duncanrobinson: A tern colony also played a role: Inspectors ruled that “it cannot be demonstrated beyond reasonable scientific doubt t…
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RT @IAPonomarenko: As a dude from Russian-speaking town just between Donetsk and Mariupol in Donbas, Steve Bannon has no idea what he’s tal…
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RT @PseudoJonathan: This is so patronising, good grief. “We would prefer you missed your train than that you rushed to catch it” https://t.…
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RT @a_darling_tom: Good for @Ed_Miliband pushing back against transparent attempts from the landlord lobby to water down proposals for warm…
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@SimonRook1 @Marek19110 @Telegraph The SMMT figure quoted in the article is for total BYD sales But not all BYD sales are EVs They sell this, which is a PHEV - and classed as a separate category than an EV by the SMMT As we know, Tesla don't sell PHEVs
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Me in the @MailOnline taking on Stellantis' rather disingenuous efforts to blame EV sales targets for their decision to close their factory in Luton (its been under threat for 25 years, EV targets have only been around for one)
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@au_tom_otive @GarethDennis so if we take a mid point of, say, 80TWh, electrifying cars and vans will increase electricity consumption by something like 25%
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@GarethDennis And electrifying the remaining vehicles adds a further 30-40%? Genuinely surprised
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