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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New car registration data from SMMT for September 2026. Surprise increase in diesel registrations given it's now about £2 per litre and will probably rise even more. Pure electric (BEV) doing well. PHEV increasing lots - but I really think many of those buyers would have been better off with a BEV

New car registration data from SMMT.
Petrol down 6.7%. Pure electric (BEV) up 36.3%.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't understand why they blocked me for this. Any ideas?

Post on blue sky about cost of replacing fleet of trucks with EVs

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He can't buy an EV without it including some plastics. What he has chosen to do is not to buy any more petrol or diesel, because that's what he can do. Petrol is a direct product of an oil company rather than hidden in another product (the thing he actually bought - a car), which cannot be escaped.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is the streaky stuff Cirrus Radiatus? Seen this morning near Sevenoaks Weald.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New car registration data for August out today. What do the last 4 months of data show? Petrol down, BEV up. Every month. Reality makes no difference to some petrol-head YouTubers, but manufacturers need to take notice if they are going to succeed. www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data...

New car registrations for August 2026. Petrol down 3.5%. BEV up 27.7%.

New car registrations for July 2026. Petrol down 5.2%. BEV up 44.5%.

New car registrations for June 2026. Petrol down 4.0%. BEV up 35.0%.

New car registrations for May 2026. Petrol down 7.1%. BEV up 34.2%.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Some European carmakers are doing better than others. Renault 5 selling like hot cakes. BMW doing well with its EVs. EV sales have been increasing steadily and petrol and diesel sales decreasing. August data out on a few days www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data... Here's July data.

July 2026 data from SMMT. New petrol car registrations down 5.2%. New diesel registrations down 17.7%. New BEV registrations up 44.5%.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Indeed. EV sales have been growing, and petrol/diesel dropping, for a while. Here's the data from the last 3 months. The trend has been this way for years.

July 2026, BEV registrations up 44.5%, petrol down 5.2%

June 2026, BEV registrations up 35.0%, petrol down 4.0%

May 2026, BEV registrations up 34.2%, petrol down 7.1%

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Latest in the "nobody wants EVs" news. www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data...

BEV (pure electric) new car registrations up 44.5% in July 2026. Petrol down 5.2%.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There are only a handful of countries (eg some gulf states) in which electricity generation is primarily oil. Eg in the UK right now.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

One of these shuttles at Goodwood is for the VIPs, one is for the plebs.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just saw an article claiming "waning demand" for EVs. Looked for some data to verify claim. Found this: ourworldindata.org/electric-car...

Graph showing exponential growth of number of EVs on the road

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Here's a short thread about the EV specific things I found driving an EV from London to Sorrento and back over a 3 week holiday.

Approximation of the route we took from London to Sorrento and back.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Last stop before going home - Troyes. Troyes has been the most pleasant surprise of the trip. It's lovely.

Half-timbered house on cobbled road in Troyes

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I guess this was before setting up his School for Gifted Youngsters?

Memorial to Thomas Charles Xavier in Colmar

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Now in Colmar. I heard about this place from a video by @tillathenun.bsky.social . It's very picturesque. For the drive from Thun (Switzerland) to here, we told the satnav to avoid toll roads. Not because I'm cheap (although I am) but to take a more scenic route. Highly recommended!

Photograph of brightly painted old houses along the river in Colmar.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm in France, just witnessed a crime against coffee. This was what I got when I asked for a cappuccino - at an otherwise very good restaurant. Is this a "normal" French thing that I didn't know about, or am I right to be appalled?

Coffee in a glass with whipped cream on top

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Grindelwald, in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. Stunning scenery, and lucky with the weather. On the EV side of things - charged the car in Interlaken at 0.55 CHF (52p) per kWh ("M-Charge" by Migrol), so not everything is expensive in Switzerland.

Photograph with wild flowers in the foreground, typical Swiss chalets in the middle distance, and snow topped mountains in the far distance

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Today, Venice. Cold and rainy, but I still liked it.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

That was after a day trip to Pompeii - fantastic!

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

EVs are great on the mountain roads around the Sorrento Peninsula, and in Italian car parks which seem to specialise in unreasonably steep and narrow ramps. However ... the area around Sorrento is very badly served for rapid charging. There seemed to be only one rapid charger in the whole area.

Map showing single rapid charger in Sorrento and no others nearby

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Went for dinner in Massa Lubrense last night - a very pleasant place, away from the crowds of Sorrento.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This is what a real work vehicle looks like in Italy. Not compensating for anything.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Now at the Amalfi coast. This is Atrani.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Today I learnt that lots of things are closed in Annecy on Mondays - effectively the weekend here is Sunday and Monday. However, I also experienced the best feature of any shopping mall I've been to 😀

Slide next to escalators in shopping mall

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Second stop Annecy. Again, glad to be in an EV. Went the scenic route through Switzerland. EVs are great in mountains. Loads of easily controllable torque going uphill, no constant gear changing, no need to do anything special going down hill (ie don't need to remember to use engine braking).

Photograph of Annecy, old buildings in evening sunlight, next to a small river flowing under a bridge.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

First day of roadtrip. Glad we decided on a short first day, and glad to be in an EV. We were able to have the aircon on while waiting for 3 hours due to a delay at Le Shuttle. First stop Reims.

Stands and pit wall of old Reims-Gueux F1 track.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

My EV needs hardly any maintenance, so it's disappointing that it doesn't come with a tool to help the one common maintenance task that is needed. I had to make my own.

Plastic bottle cut in half to produce funnel for filling up car screen wash

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Not much wind generation today but I'm amazed how much (grid) solar we've got in the UK in March, not even midday. (screenshot taken at about 10:35am)

Graphic showing currently 24% of UK electricity coming from solar, 22% from wind

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Well ... that would explain my problem 🤦‍♂️

Error page saying that the website has been rate limited

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Many thanks. He doesn't look quite as intelligent though when he sticks his tongue out, but he is cute, here sitting on my knee.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My cat is called Goose. Photo by my youngest son.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This appears to be the article you are quoting: www.forbes.com/sites/neilwi... In which the table appears to show 24 years for cars driving under 5000km (IE. 3000 miles). According to Google, average annual mileage in India = 12000km, Indonesia = 15000km

Table showing 0-3k miles / 0-5k kilometers having break-even year 24. Next category (3-5k miles) shows break-even year 9.

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Have you seen the comments? They look suspiciously similar. All start "Man" or "Oh man". These two look like they're from the same script/AI. The article itself references some other report that isn't linked. It might as well say "my mate Dave down the pub says ..."

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

SMMT new car registration data for March. BEV registrations continue to increase. Any bump due to people wanting to beat the "expensive car supplement" (which is a bit of a misnomer because average new car costs more than 40k)? www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data... www.autoexpress.co.uk/features/366...

Table of new car registration data. BEV registrations up 43.2%. Diesel down 10.1%

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

New car registration data out today www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data... BEV up 41.6% in January 2025 compared to same month 2024. I was expecting low BEV registrations due to pre-registering in 2024 to hit LEV targets. Maybe BEV sales are better than fossil fuel funded newspapers have been saying.

Table of data showing new BEV registrations up 41.6% in January 2025 compared to same month in 2024

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Daily Mail just being as delightful as it's always been libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian...

Daily Mail, 1934 article titled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts"

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ivanrmoore.bsky.social @ivanrmoore.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

EV sales in UK increased in October while sales for all other fuel types decreased. www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data...

Table showing registration data for October. 24.5% increase for BEVs, 20.5 decrease for diesel, 14.2% decrease for petrol.

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