Reposted by Leon OverweelElectric Nick @electric-nick.bsky.social · 28/10/2025In Q3, Europe saw 606,408 new BEV registrations — the second-highest quarterly total ever ⚡ Even more impressive, market share hit 19.5%, setting a new all-time quarterly record! 🔋📈 The shift to electric is accelerating across the continent. 🌍🚗 151 5
Reposted by Leon OverweelEmber @ember-energy.org · 06/07/2025🚨 China is meeting and exceeding its demand growth with clean sources so far in 2025, standing out as a leading example among #BRICS China’s solar generation rose by 120 TWh in the first five months of 2025, meeting 86% of the country’s demand increase ☀️📈 23517 35
Reposted by Leon OverweelHannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 23/06/2025In the early 1990s, Ireland was getting more than 40% of its electricity from coal. Last week it closed its last coal plant: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 6662152 662
Reposted by Leon OverweelKees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 24/04/2025VW has overtaken Tesla as Europe's top EV seller: VW sold 66,000 battery electric cars in Q1, that's 157% more than last year Tesla sold 53,000 battery electric cars, that's 38% less than last year, in Europe's strongest quarter for battery EVs on record. www.businessinsider.com/volkswagen-o...businessinsider.comVW has overtaken Tesla as Europe's top EV sellerVolkswagen EV registrations rose more than 150% year-over-year while Tesla saw the biggest decline among the top 30 brands. 713145 131
Leon Overweel @loen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Hear me out: do OCR on all images posted to Bluesky and then match the detected text against my timeline filters, so that screenshots of tweets about topics I muted don’t fall through the cracks. 120 2
Reposted by Leon OverweelCentre for Research on Energy and Clean Air @creacleanair.bsky.social · 31/03/2025🇪🇺 NEW | #EU #CO2 fossil fuel #emissions decreased by 2.9% in 2024, following a steep 8.5% drop in 2023, CREA's early estimates suggest The reduction was driven mainly by decreased coal use in the power sector, which now accounts for only 19% of EU CO2 fossil fuel emissions 1155 15
Reposted by Leon OverweelJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 07/03/2025GOOD NEWS FRIDAY: Nearly half of EU city buses sold in 2024 were fully electric! EU policies + city-level action drive faster shift away from diesel. At this pace, all new city buses could be zero-emission by 2027. @transenv.bsky.social www.transportenvironment.org/articles/hal... 211728 117
Reposted by Leon OverweelKees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Frequency in the Baltic grid - decoupled from Russia's grid since yesterday - is now stable well within +/- 0.05 Hz: practice in island operation going well. Synchronisation with EU grid, for extra stability, will start this evening. baltic-grid.sympower.net 117224 172
Reposted by Leon OverweelNick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025In Oslo, construction projects are now clean and quiet -> As of January 2025, all contractors providing work to Oslo’s government have to use electric concrete trucks, excavators, and other machinery theprogressplaybook.com/2025/02/05/i...theprogressplaybook.comIn Oslo, construction projects are now clean and quietAs of January 2025, all contractors providing work to Oslo's government have to use clean and quiet machinery. 29635 96
Reposted by Leon OverweelFelix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 26/01/2025The Future Is Already Here🌩️🌩️🌩️ enjoy the SILENCE🔊🔊🔊 in Amsterdam❌❌❌ (surprising amount of diesel still around when I ran into Shenzhen ground works a week ago) #amsterdamelektrisch #alwaysbecharging 25815 58
Reposted by Leon OverweelDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/12/2024I’m convinced that the only way to get rich countries to act on climate is to pose it as a competition with China.on.ft.comChina’s EV sales set to overtake traditional cars years ahead of west[FREE TO READ] Volumes forecast to rise 20% next year, smashing international projections and Beijing’s official targets 611240206 1.2K
Leon Overweel @loen.bsky.social · 30/11/202425 minutes that finally explained to me why I love colored Christmas lights from 80s and 90s movies, but hate the ones you see all over the place today. A Technology Connections Miracle! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSFN...youtube.comLED Christmas lights which don't hurt the eyes: it finally happened!YouTube video by Technology Connections 110 1
Leon Overweel @loen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024We knew this, but it’s amazing to see it so clearly in this Norwegian data: 1: distance traveled by fuel; EVs (blue) are a sizeable chunk in 2023 2: energy use by fuel; EVs (yellow) are a barely noticeable sliver in 2023 Electrification doesn’t just shift, it massively reduces energy consumption. 24520 45
Leon Overweel @loen.bsky.social · 10/06/2023Just spent 20 minutes updating 115 gmail skip-inbox-straight-to-folder filters for newsletters to start forwarding to Feedbin so that I can consume them in NetNewsWire next to my RSS feeds. Fingers crossed this works 🤞 020 2
Leon Overweel @loen.bsky.social · 28/05/2023So am I two weeks late and has everyone abandoned this place already, or am I just not following the right people? 100 1
Leon Overweel @loen.bsky.social · 26/05/2023Turned off silent mode for the first time in 2+ years owning this (i)phone because I need to be able to receive a call and.. wow: the keyboard clicks are LOUD 020 2
Leon Overweel @loen.bsky.social · 24/05/2023Once every few years, you just have to go back and spend half an hour reading the behind the scenes at Disney parks AskReddit thread reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/301… 000 0
Leon Overweel @loen.bsky.social · 24/05/2023Glad I stopped posting on Twitter months ago but, man, it’s so sad to see the guy I had such a high opinion of during the few years after that 2015 biography slide off so much.. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202… 000 0
Leon Overweel @loen.bsky.social · 23/05/2023I’m kinda glad we’re calling them LLMs and GPTs and that the Foundation Model name never stuck. Always felt a bit pretentious tbh 000 0
Leon Overweel @loen.bsky.social · 19/05/2023i heard this is where all the hot takes are now, but in a decentralized kind of way 100 1
