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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 03/10/2026

Hey everyone, a new reason to object to EVs just dropped!

BBC NEws notification: ‘EV drivers love their cars, but they make some passengers feel sick - this could be why’

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 28/09/2026

Good old Grauniad’s knocked 80p off the price of diesel 😬 @theguardian.com

Breaking news notification from The Guardian saying ‘UK diesel prices hit record high at 119.18p a litre’

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 24/09/2026

Key point here. ~90% of EV drivers can charge at home today but 40% of UK households cannot charge at home. Showing clearly those households are not making the switch and that addressing cost of public EV charging is a major fairness issue.

Public charging points remain significantly more expensive than domestic rates. However, the UK government estimates that around 90% of electric car charging takes place at home.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 18/08/2026

When I joined Bluesky a few people followed me as a heat pump 'expert' as I was on someone's starter pack. I did not, however, actually have one myself. Until today 🥳 Five months from moving in we're a gas free house. ⚡️ Solar, battery, EV charger coming next week. #ElectrifyEverything

Dark grey heat pump outside by a garage door

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 13/08/2026

This is the insight from the polling we commissioned I'm most struck by. Three quarters of 18-24 year olds want the EV transition to keep pace or speed up. 53% of over 65s think it should slow down. In a democracy all views matter. But climate policies affect some generations more than others.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 06/07/2026

30% BEV market share seen in the @newautomotive.org figures last week also reflected by SMMT's. Still 'below ambition' though apparently, despite electric being a quarter of sales YTD. Don't be fooled by the 33% ZEV Mandate target for this year, the flexibilities mean the real target is 24%.

June car registrations by fuel type

2026 2025 % CHANGE MKT SHARE ’26 MKT SHARE ’25
BEV 63,950 47,354 35.0% 30.0% 24.8%
HEV 29,874 23,835 25.3% 14.0% 12.5%
PHEV 26,702 21,382 24.9% 12.5% 11.2%
PETROL 84,541 88,029 -4.0% 39.7% 46.0%
DIESEL 8,099 10,716 -24.4% 3.8% 5.6%
TOTAL 213,166 191,316 11.4%

2026 car registrations by fuel

2026 2025 % CHANGE MKT SHARE ’26 MKT SHARE ’25
BEV 284,579 224,841 26.6% 25.01% 21.57%
HEV 161,676 146,777 10.2% 14.21% 14.08%
PHEV 148,132 107,039 38.4% 13.02% 10.27%
PETROL 490,994 504,840 -2.7% 43.15% 48.44%
DIESEL 52,548 58,722 -10.5% 4.62% 5.63%
TOTAL 1,137,929 1,042,219 9.2%

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 28/04/2026

Interesting graphic from the FT showing share of new car sales by fuel type across markets. UK pretty mid-pack, sharing a growing hybrid problem with France and Germany. Note Norway, Netherlands and China not using this supposed 'bridge' to the same extent. The US needs to get with the game.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 31/03/2026

Nice to see petrol catch up to what the EV charging industry's been doing for years. 😉

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero LinkedIN post announcing: "Our Fuel Finder scheme mandates all UK petrol stations to report their prices, helping households with a car find the best deals and save around £40 a year.

Apps and websites are now displaying real time fuel prices, meaning drivers can find the cheapest fuel at stations close to them."

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 01/03/2026

Looks like they changed the headline. Odd.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 01/03/2026

It looks like this headline has been altered since you posted? Maybe an the sub editor got a bit overzealous.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 28/02/2026

So many questions. Has Dorian been accused by our thoroughly pleasant MP Sarah? What led Dorian to the decision that taking an ad out to repeat the allegation was a good idea? Why did the magazine take his money?

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 23/02/2026

Shameful that we’ve allowed a majority of the UK to become confused about what to believe on climate change. But it seems the cartoon is holding true.

Cartoon of a climate summit where a presenter has listed all the benefits of decarbonisation (energy independence, clean air, healthy children etc) and someone in the audience asks ‘what if it’s a box hoax and we create a better world for nothing?’

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 16/02/2026

3-5 year old EVs were the fastest selling used cars of any fuel type on Autotrader last year. 'No natural demand' though, hey Stellantis?

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 14/02/2026

Somehow ended up watching Scotland smash the oppressors in view of the Principality with a load of very friendly France fans. There were still England fans present for some reason, get everywhere don’t they. #6nations 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A bar with a screen showing the rugby with men in berets in the foreground.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 12/01/2026

Odd reporting from the Telegraph over the weekend framing a thing the government literally announced in the Autumn budget as if it's a new exclusive via a Whitehall insider. Nonetheless the fact that this is being looked at is good. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 09/12/2025

The UK's top ten selling cars of 2025 is conclusive proof that the UK public has terrible taste in cars and we should be telling them what to buy not selling them what they think they want.

UK's top 10 bestselling cars in 2025: Ford Puma, Kia Sportage, Nissan Qashqai, Vauxhall Corsa, Nissan Juke, Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Tiguan, MG HS, Hyundai Tucson, Volvo XC40

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 08/12/2025

I know we’re all worried about the energy used by Google and other digital services but I’m not sure asking the Transport Minister your question in parliament instead is a better use of resource.

Richard Holden MP asked the Secretary of State for Transport where he can find the latest EV charging figures at local authority level in parliament.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 01/12/2025

There’s something so insane about the OBR’s website being run on Wordpress. The number of times I’ve double and triple checked the scheduling of a relatively inane blog post because I don’t trust the time zone setting. And that is literally what tripped up the UK’s fiscal regulator last week?!

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 29/10/2025

Not the biggest EV misinformation problem we face, but media's image choices can't be helping consumer confusion. Story about cross pavement home charging... accompanied by a pic of an ultra rapid motorway charging hub. "Is my street going to start looking like a motorway service station now?"

Screenshot of a story from The Times titled "Rules on EV chargers to be eased for motorists without driveways" accompanied with an image of an Ionity ultra rapid charging hub.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 15/09/2025

I find it bizarre that there are lots of progressives on X calling for a boycott of Tesla. Are they not aware of the irony of where they are posting this? Tesla, albeit the biggest source of Musk's wealth, isn't wholly owned by him. And isn't an online platform designed to spread hate.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 15/09/2025

A solid 78% wind and solar on the grid atm 👌 @neso-energy.bsky.social

NESO’s GB electricity generation mix showing 61% wind and 17% solar.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 30/08/2025

If anyone’s wondering where all the goldfinches are, they’re on my in-laws’ lawn #birdsky

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 11/08/2025

This @thetimes.com chart isn't too bad at showing the petrol/electric charging cost differential. It misses a major nuance — most EV drivers don't exclusively charge at home, slow or rapid, but a mix. And 7,500 miles per year is lower than average. Pence per mile would be a more useful axis.

Chart titled 'No driveway? No savings' showing yearly running cost of electric v petrol cars dependent on where you charge. Chart shows costs over time of a home EV tariff, slow public charger, fast public charger and petrol assuming 7,500 miles driven per year.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 04/08/2025

What... kind of opinions? 🤨

Screenshot of a journalist request from 'Independent Gasoline Marketing Magazine' looking for 'Experts needed for opinions on EV charging stations'

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 27/07/2025

Petition to get all the organisers of sports I care about to schedule better.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 15/07/2025

What Juliet said. Want to pay less for wind farms switching off? Forget zonal. Make suppliers disclose their portfolio renewable balancing figures - they'll soon improve.

Screenshot from LinkedIn where Juliet Davenport says "Well said Nigel Pocklington - Good Energy has always been at the forefront of finding ways to create a renewable Britain not just make money, insisting that Renewable Energy Suppliers balance renewable energy in their own portfolios will do more to support a balanced system than zonal ever could !"

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 15/07/2025

I can't even sign into Twitter if I try to anymore that website is so broken. (I only wanted to do a quick lurk, haven't been active there for months).

Error message from the X login screen saying "Oops, something went wrong. Please try again later."

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 14/07/2025

Tyrique George has had some great moments this season but this er, trumps them all.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 21/06/2025

Today’s #showyourstripes day? Throwback to when we showed em on the UK’s first wind farm at Delabole in Cornwall for COP26.

Climate stripes being projected onto a wind turbine with a group of people watching in the foreground.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 20/06/2025

I imagine it was some skeptic think tank or Reform/Tory spad who fed him the story in the first place. This is quite amusing at least. Fails to mention the historical record of Dieter Helm being massively wrong about everything he claims to be an expert on.

Oxford University’s Professor Dieter Helm has said that estimates on the impacts of renewable energy have historically overlooked the cost of preventing issues surrounding unreliable weather, for example.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 20/06/2025

Very disappointing to see @cityam.bsky.social / @mauriciofca.bsky.social go in for this solution denial. That's not what they said, is it? The point made was that the high cost of electricity *DRIVEN BY GAS AND LEVIES* currently *CAN* make low carbon tech running on electricity more expensive.

City AM website headline claiming "Exclusive: Government admits fossil fuels use is cheaper than net zero technology"

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 11/06/2025

Full magnets, how do they work? 🤡

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 27/03/2025

Had the treat of being able to join a live recording of my favourite news podcast @tortoisemedia.bsky.social's The News Meeting in my nearest city of Bath yesterday evening.

Photo taken from a crowd watching a panel of four people with a projection of 'The News Meeting' behind them.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 25/03/2025

For some reason a bunch of media this week have decided to quote one of our particularly mundane support articles explaining how smart meters interact with clock changes. Of all the interesting and important stories we pitch, this is what they're writing about.

Drake meme:

Yes to: Writing crucial stories we share with them about consumer
transparency and climate change
No to: Writing cobbled together clickbait based on our support articles

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 17/03/2025

Being a Very Silly Person, I had to make a @goodenergyuk.bsky.social TikTok on what the Tea Time Alarm means for grid management and flexibility.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 21/02/2025

It’s so funny that the FT app is like ‘oh yeah we’ve got silly little stories like Snap and Insta too 💅’

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 20/02/2025

NEA and FPA absolutely right here - removing standing charges in this way doesn't help the vulnerable. But I'm not sure what they expected. I'll tell you who it does help - second home owners and landlords with empty properties.

"What Ofgem is proposing is more to hide standing charges within the unit rates, even allowing energy firms to charge more for the first units of energy which is completely the opposite from what we actually need," said Jonathan Bean, from campaign group Fuel Poverty Action.
Peter Smith, from charity National Energy Action, said the system would still be unfair and impact on the most vulnerable.
"We are particularly worried pre-payment meter customers may be left racking up increasingly unaffordable charges, which will continue to need to be repaid in full before they can turn on the lights or run a warm bath for their children," he said.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 28/01/2025

Oh right ok there's like a whole name for this and everything. Jevons paradox.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tweeting earlier this week about how as AI gets more efficient and accessible its use will skyrocket.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 22/01/2025

Well... that is quite the standfirst @alphaville.ft.com.

Screengrab from the FT Alphaville blog headlined "A fork in the road for Tesla" with the stand first "Clean power versus white power"

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 10/01/2025

I have this t-shirt. Guess now I need one with @erwanrivault.bsky.social's graphic on it.

No music on a dead planet t-shirt, inspired by the wavelength illustration from Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album, except the wavelengths are all flat.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 08/01/2025

We've published Zapmap's data on EV charging growth in 2024 today. In summary: reports of EV charging's death have been greatly exaggerated.

Graphic showing year on year growth of EV charge points in 2024.

Slow/fast +36% to 59,228
Rapid +19% to 7,450
Ultra-rapid +83% to 7,021
Total devices +38% to 73m699
Total charging hub locations +103% to 537

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 03/01/2025

Seems the UK media is kicking off 2025 by catching up with things we knew at least five years ago.

Screen shot of an article on inews titled 'heat pumps to be installed in most UK homes despite fears over cost'

Screenshot of an article on the Telegraph titled "Is 2025 finally the year to buy an electric car?"

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 06/12/2024

This does not seem… good. The blaring noise made me jump. I’m a silent phone person! #stormdarragh

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 05/12/2024

Is this a watering down, as the Telegraph is inevitably reporting? It was always a bit up for debate what '100% clean power' actually meant - on one day in 2030? One hour? 'At least 95% of generation' would still achieve that. A softening of language, yes. Just intent meeting practicality?

Screenshot from government announcement on its Clean Power 2030 goal stating "We will measure this by being on track to achieving at least 95% of low carbon generation by 2030 in line with advice from the National Energy System Operator (NESO)."

Screenshot from the Telegraph's live blog, headlines 'Starmer waters down clean energy pledge'.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 05/12/2024

They're not even activist investors, just a fund, with no money, that say they're going to exclude any company trying to diversify its workers — a proven factor in higher performance. I'm sure Starbucks' board are quaking in their boots!

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 04/12/2024

What’s the policy on sharing your #SpotifyWrapped here Bluesky? Frowned upon? No one cares about your music taste? Well I care. Here’s what I spent 2024 listening to. Nice blend of post hardcore, emo and Chappell Roan.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 01/12/2024

I don’t know why I even opened the app. Literally every other post in my feed is the same awful temu ad. It really isn’t an exaggeration to say Twxtter is dead.

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 30/11/2024

Different flavour of woodpecker behind the garden today, great spotted hanging out in the trees. Pheasant, two kinds of woodpecker & the usual goldfinches, robins, buzzards, long tailed, blue and coal tits, kites, ravens, magpies and woodpigeons spotted without leaving the house this week. #ukbirds

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Ian McKee @ianmck.ee · 27/11/2024

Green woodpecker just sat on my garden fence like it’s no big deal.

A green woodpecker with red on top of its head and yellow feathers on its back, sat on a garden fence.

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