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[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Battery storage is now the fastest-growing power tech on Earth. 108 GW added in 2025, dominated by #lithium. More than gas ever managed in a single year. This isn’t a gentle transition. It’s replacement. Storage is scaling. Gas is peaking. #LFP is winning. #Bettrification scales.

https://t.co/EvCMql0j1t

[Energy Storage Design @EnergyStorageD1]

So many roofs not enough PV cells...

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

Exports of solar products from China reached a massive new record high in March of 68 GW!

Panels: 32 GW
Cells: 18 GW
Wafers: 18 GW

First month of data since the conflict in the Middle East began + incoming changes in Chines tax rebates for solar products

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Check out this footage of an #EV truck overtaking the usual suspects dragging their heels up a steep grade, slowing traffic and winding everyone up.

Fully loaded Tesla Semi, but it could just as easily be Windrose, BYD or Volvo.

No shifts. No lag. Just torque. Cost always wins.

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Solar isn't just growing. The scale of its 2025 surge is completely bonkers
>We added enough new solar last year to displace every single unit of gas power generated by 100% of LNG exports through the Strait of Hormuz
>So just 1 year of solar growth wiped out the energy equivalent of the world's most critical fossil fuel chokepoint
>Solar growth was 18x gas growth
>China alone added more solar in 1 year than the entire world in 2023

This isn't a transition. It's a hostile takeover by superior economics. Betting on fossil fuels today is exactly like betting on whale oil while Edison was turning on the lightbulb

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

99.7% of EVs will never need a battery replacement.

Petrolheads can keep parroting “what about the battery?” all day.

The real-world data says otherwise.

Tracking thousands of EVs built since 2022:
Just 0.3% have needed a battery replacement (outside recalls).

That’s 99.7% still running fine.

Now compare that to ICE:
Some engines hit failure rates of ~3.7%
That’s 12× higher than EV battery replacements.

Even the best engines barely approach ~0.3%
And that’s just the engine, not the rest of the drivetrain.

Here’s the reality:

EVs
• One core system
• Minimal moving parts
• Thermal management + smart chemistry (LFP especially)
• Gradual, predictable degradation

ICE
• Hundreds of moving parts
• Constant heat, pressure, friction
• Multiple failure points
• When it goes, it goes hard

Modern EV batteries are cooled, managed, and preconditioned to last.

So while people keep yelling “battery replacement”…
They stay quiet about far more common, far more expensive engine failures.

The data is clear. The panic isn’t and the lies are coming undone.

[Liu Miao @liumiao]

China's first and world's largest pure electric container ship set sail today. Length: 127.8 m, width: 21.6 m, draught: 6.2 m, capacity: 742 TEU. Equipped 10 containerised batteries with 19,600 kWh in total and two 875 kW motors, reducing carbon emissions by 1,462 tonnes annually

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Parking lots over a certain size have three to five years to cover at least half their surface area with solar canopies or face fines.

The projected output: up to 11 gigawatts of capacity, the equivalent of 10 nuclear reactors.

The panels shade the cars. They can charge EVs directly underneath them. They generate electricity for the grid. The parking lot goes from dead infrastructure to power plant without using a single additional acre of land.

France plans to increase solar tenfold and double wind capacity by 2033.

The US has approximately 800 million parking spaces. Eight hundred million. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Indonesia on the move: Its electricity monopoly moves to retire 2,396 diesel generators across 741 locations

> Will replace them with solar + storage and micro-hydro, slashing 200,000 barrels of oil imports/ day
> Saves $2b in avoided oil imports every single year

Burning expensive, imported oil to provide power to islands is a national security suicide note. Indonesia is finally starting to read the manual: The sun is free, local, and doesn't require a carrier strike group to protect its "supply chain"

If your energy arrives on a boat, you aren’t a sovereign state. Indonesia, Pakistan, India are showing the way out

https://t.co/ijprOw0nyU

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

Two recent studies have re-examined the risk of birds entering in collision with rotor blades of wind turbines. The research found that there was not a single collision.
"The results from Aberdeen Bay show that modern offshore wind farms can be operated with low risk to wildlife."
https://t.co/d7amgBm9rF

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Swiss musician To Athena has performed inside a cave in a melting glacier to highlight accelerating ice loss in the Alps.

Scientists say the Morteratsch glacier is shrinking by around 50 metres a year, with the cave itself unlikely to survive another summer as temperatures rise.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A zoo in Belgium turned its parking lot into one of the largest solar power plants in the world.

Pairi Daiza, voted Europe's best zoo, covered 80% of its 7,000 parking spaces with 62,750 solar panels.

The installation produces 20 megawatts of peak power, which is more than the entire zoo consumes.

The surplus charges electric vehicles at onsite stations and sells the rest back to the grid.

It's the largest solar carport in the world, and it was built on land that was already paved, over cars that were already there. Nobody had to choose between wilderness and energy production.

Covering all existing US parking lots with solar panels could generate 1.7 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity, which would power half the country.

Why aren't we funding this?

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Massive geopolitical shift. NHK World confirms Japan has perfected a revolutionary process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a staggering 90 percent recovery rate. This brilliant technological leap guarantees Japan's absolute economic security.

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

30,000L diesel → ~320 MWh
Electric → ~110 MWh

~3.1 MWh/day
→ ~600 kW solar (~2.5 acres)
→ ~2.5 MWh battery

Diesel farming is energy waste disguised as power.

Electric flips it: ~3× less energy → lower costs → local control → no fuel dependence.
https://t.co/FpmlibaIy6

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

China just switched on the world’s largest offshore #solar farm.

1 GW off the coast of Shandong
~1.78 TWh/year
Enough for ~2.6–2.7M people
Built 8 km offshore, covering ~1,200 hectares of sea.

Land was never the limit. Now the ocean is the grid. #Bettrification ⚡🔋

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Diesel just got humiliated on its own turf by Chinese #EV Truck 🚚.

Sydney → Canberra freight run
Electric truck: 25 minutes faster + ~85% cheaper energy

Not greener. Not nicer. Just better.

Freight was supposed to be the last stand… #Bettrification

https://t.co/I55n0S1fKJ

[Energy Storage Design @EnergyStorageD1]

Luckily they've divested as much as they have from fossil fuels.

[Stephen Stapczynski @SStapczynski]

The global gas supply crunch is getting worse 🚨 🇦🇺

Chevron’s Wheatstone gas plant was damaged by a storm and will be shut for weeks. This is one of Australia’s large LNG export plants

LNG supply was already tight due to an outage in Qatar

https://t.co/N4RXHMKUxU

[Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum]

Coal used to dominate Australia's 🇦🇺 electricity mix at over 90%.

In the last twelve months to February, it fell below 50%.

What's driving coal out? Solar, wind, batteries ☀️🍃🔋

2026 might be the year renewables overtake coal for good.

[Energy Storage Design @EnergyStorageD1]

It should all be captured and reused for growing food under glass as should the heat...

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

CO2 from UK data centres could be ‘hundreds of times’ higher than thought https://t.co/6sB5rCBpl5

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

In 2023, there was not a single day until spring where WindWaterSolar met >100% of demand for part of the day.

During winter 2026, so far there are already 45 of 68 such days (67%), and 18 straight.

And gas use is now down 60% vs '23
Solar up 61%, batteries up 322% vs '23

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

China is moving rapidly to a solar/electric future with very little need for oil or gas