☀️ Sunshine Driver 🚗

Environnement, mobilité électrique, technologies vertes. Belgique et reste du monde.
I'm walking (& driving) on sunshine, oohoo 🎵

[Greg Jackson @g__j]

Getting gas locally is good short term, but it won’t cut bills. Heat pumps can.
Hundreds and thousands will save on bills this winter with their heat pump (on avg, £230 a year on Cosy Octopus vs a gas boiler).

[anabology @anabology]

Claude isn't a great musician (yet)

But this kind of video would be unfathomable to make even 6 months ago with previous LLMs

"Claudia Explains: Euclid"

[☀️ Sunshine Driver 🚗 @SunshineDriver]

Starlink Mobile getting to the masses in Peru through national mobile provider. Peru is a ~30M people country with ~18M not in the capital and with generally bad internet/mobile connectivity

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

America innovates 🇺🇸
Europe regulates 🇪🇺

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[☀️ Sunshine Driver 🚗 @SunshineDriver]

@TheSonOfWalkley 500

[☀️ Sunshine Driver 🚗 @SunshineDriver]

Encore des décisions dans l'intérêt de nos enfants, bravo... Des millions d'euros de salaire pour des centaines de réunions pour prendre une décision dans un sens puis encore d'autres pour finalement annuler le tout. 🤦🏻‍♂️
Et puis les jobs sauvés seront quand même perdus à cause de l'IA.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Back to the Future, but Elon is driving. 🚀

[☀️ Sunshine Driver 🚗 @SunshineDriver]

@DocBrownLloyd @Tesla I was so expecting you to do som me reenactment there 😅
I still think it would have been a much funnier and memorable event with you in it!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Scobleizer True.

You will be able to ask the Roadster to perform any of the tricks shown autonomously, as it will be sentient.

Also, we will have a wild looping track (crazier even than Hot Wheels) at our Texas HQ where you can test out your Roadster.

[☀️ Sunshine Driver 🚗 @SunshineDriver]

@TeslaBoomerMama Merge already

[Tesla @Tesla]

Real life, baby

[Kees Roelandschap @KRoelandschap]

HELP NEEDED

I’m looking for companies or outlets in Europe 🇪🇺 from where I can source 100-200 (Tesla) battery packs per year

This can be separate modules or full battery packs, they do not need the full power or capacity as they will serve a purpose other than for vehicles

They will be converted into battery packs for boats and homes

Who can help me out? Please do reach out in the comments 👇🏼 and I’ll hit you up in DM

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

I wasn’t planning to spend my day digging into tonight’s Roadster reveal, until I looked closely at where and how Tesla is staging it.

Instead of using the showroom or test track at Giga Texas in Austin, invitations sent people ninety minutes north to Waco, right next to SpaceX’s McGregor rocket test site. Ahead of the original October 1 date, the FAA restricted airspace over the area up to 10,000 feet, and Tesla ended up delaying the whole event two weeks because of severe weather and wind.

Think about that from a physics standpoint. A two-ton car with four rubber tires planted on asphalt doesn’t care about crosswinds or airspace closures. You only worry about wind shear and go out to a rocket facility when the vehicle is planning to lose contact with the ground.

[☀️ Sunshine Driver 🚗 @SunshineDriver]

Solo la energía total *no consumida* por el refino + transporte de 1 vehículo a combustión descartado (11kWh/100km) es suficiente (por ahora) para contrapesar el consumo de 60% de 1 vehículo 100% eléctrico.

Insisto: *Solo refino + transporte*.
Sin siquiera hablar de las pérdidas por el motor.

Quizás dentro de unos años la relación sea 1 a 1, mientras las pérdidas eléctricas se vayan reduciendo y la eficiencia de los motores eléctricos vaya mejorando. Y resultará que no aumenta en nada la carga para nuestra red eléctrica remplazar un coche fósil con un coche eléctrico.

Por eso se dice que vale mejor todavía (en falta de otra solución) generar electricidad con gasolina en una central y luego usar esta electricidad en vehículos eléctricos, que quedarse con el mismo medio (gasolina) para consumirlo/quemarlo en un coche a combustión: la combustión en una central es más eficiente que en un pequeño motor de combustión en un coche.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

"From an environmental standpoint, “there’s nothing useful about ethanol"

"The fuel is wildly inefficient compared with competing power sources"

“The ethanol supply is only ~4% of the U.S. transportation industry, yet all corn ethanol occupies about 1.24% of U.S. land"

"We could power the entire US, 100% of transportation, 100% of electric power (and 100% of industry and buildings with clean renewable energy for just 0.8% of U.S. land.”

"Ethanol is more dangerous than gasoline. Ethanol emits carcinogens and compounds that worsen smog and ozone."

“Ethanol increases air pollution deaths by increasing ozone" (relative to gasoline).

Expanding the sale of fuel made from corn could boost US farmers. But at what cost?
https://t.co/TFRmFekX1C

[Christian Breyer 🦣 @ChristianOnRE]

European residential heat pump sales up 11% in H1 - https://t.co/cThhad1zdI

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🚗 Best-selling electric vehicles in the world, January – August 2026

1. 🇺🇸 Tesla Model Y: 748,088
2. 🇨🇳 BYD Song / Seal U: 325,091
3. 🇨🇳 Geely Xingyuan / EX2: 321,454
4. 🇺🇸 Tesla Model 3: 298,903
5. 🇨🇳 BYD Yuan Up / Atto 2: 225,334
6. 🇨🇳 BYD Seagull / Dolphin Mini: 212,839
7. 🇨🇳 BYD Dolphin: 172,562
8. 🇨🇳 Li Auto i6: 152,842
9. 🇨🇳 Fangchengbao Ti7: 139,560
10. 🇨🇳 MG4: 134,623
11. 🇨🇳 BYD Sealion 06: 131,390
12. 🇨🇳 Xiaomi YU7: 128,472
13. 🇨🇳 Leapmotor A10 / B03X: 122,766
14. 🇨🇳 BYD Seal 06: 118,103
15. 🇨🇳 Xiaomi SU7: 118,065
16. 🇨🇳 BYD Yuan Plus / Atto 3: 113,008
17. 🇨🇳 Changan Qiyuan / Nevo Q05: 112,650
18. 🇨🇳 BYD Sealion 05: 100,201
19. 🇨🇳 NIO ES8 / EL8: 100,049
20. 🇯🇵 Toyota bZ4X: 98,714

Source: CleanTechnica

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla registrations in Germany were up 268% in September 2026 from a year earlier to 12,552 vehicles, the best month since December 2022.

Tesla is increasing production output at its Giga Berlin factory by another 20% to 7,500 vehicles per week starting this month (October), creating thousands of jobs, the company announced a few months ago. This production increase is on top of the 20% production output increase previously announced earlier this year.

[Alex Xplore @AlexXplore]

🇫🇷 Le plus grand système de stockage d’électricité en France

🔋 À Cernay-lès-Reims, le plus grand site français de stockage d’électricité par batteries, un projet né en 2022 et composé de batteries Tesla.

🇺🇸 Le coût annoncé est d’environ 100 millions d’euros, il y a 140 conteneurs Tesla Megapack (240 MW / 480 MWh), sur un peu plus de 3 hectares.

☀️ En milieu de journée, quand le solaire est abondant et que les prix deviennent parfois négatifs, le surplus est absorbé au lieu d’être perdu.

🌙 Environ 80 % de cette énergie est réinjectée le soir, à 240 MW pendant deux heures, soit l’équivalent de la consommation d’environ 450 000 foyers.

[☀️ Sunshine Driver 🚗 @SunshineDriver]

@lingxi @bot 1. Conversion of PNG to SVG is still very bad, while a human pro can do it no problem with Inkscape
2. Generation of video tutorials from doc + access to live web app for screen recording still has a lot of difficulty showing workflow consistency and synching voice w/ image