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[Wybren van der Vaart @WPvanderVaart]

@help_delhivery Hi I have shared it a while back with absolutely zero response from your side - not even an acknowledgement. What kind of a company are you?

[Wybren van der Vaart @WPvanderVaart]

Bought a pair of shoes on @NykaaMan with promise of delivery a day later - it's been 4 days of waiting and broken promise upon broken promise and lie upon lie by delivery agency @delhivery - first time ordering on @NykaaMan and the last time as well.

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

I've posted models showing that electric trucks are the future and hydrogen trucks don't make sense since 2017.
Glad it's finally becoming mainstream and good article.
https://t.co/MN1jX6nqRB

[Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix]

"While EVs have reached price parity in China, they’re still more expensive than comparable combustion-engine cars in most markets. @BloombergNEF expects more segments to reach parity in the years ahead as lower-cost batteries become more widely available outside China."
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[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

A firestorm of debate has ignited in India since I walked off a podcast due to the poor air quality.

Indians, organize yourselves and take action. You will do more to improve India’s health by cleaning up the air than by curing cancer.

[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

For years, we heard "lithium is scarce."

In the factual world, we know there is plenty in the earth's crust and sea. My own analysis showed a 95% correlation between production and resources: if we produce more, we find more.

Has anybody made excuses yet? E.g. CTO of Toyota.

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

America’s postwar vision for the world succeeded — and no country has benefited more than the United States.

Now President Trump might unleash forces that over time will damage, even destroy, the world that America created.

My take:

[Christian Reber 🇪🇺 @christianreber]

I was one of the first @Sequoia-backed founders in Europe, and working with Mike Moritz was one of my life's greatest honors (and challenges). Last year, I also met @shaunmmaguire in France, together with Europe's most active angel investors.

@shaunmmaguire I assume you're following Elon's lead on this one, but you are indeed supporting a Nazi party. Germany is undoubtedly going through hell right now, and YES, we urgently need a new pro-business, anti-woke, conservative government. YES, EU regulations are a terrible mess right now. But NO, we don't need to elect right-wing politicians to get us out of this mess. Supporting our leading conservative party @CDU is fine, @_FriedrichMerz is the way to go!

Please continue to express your opinion, but I would love to help to get you on the right side of history.

@LucianaLix @JulienBek @Alfred_Lin @dougleone

[Tesla Club India® @TeslaClubIN]

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- 200 to 350km range
- 470kW power
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[AukeHoekstra @AukeHoekstra]

This can't be repeated often enough: batteries are getting cheaper incredibly fast.

This not only means that our cars can drive on electricity.

But also that solar and wind become "firm" sources of power, and we can use our electricity grid much better.

[Tesla Club India® @TeslaClubIN]

One more of quality charging hardware is coming to India!!

Stay tuned

[Meacham @MeachamDr]

Coke Junior has already left Greenland disappointed realizing all that white stuff is just snow.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The ability to shock every day, to escalate beyond yesterday‘s bizarre or abusive action or statement with another, and another, is a power that all successful demagogues and autocrats possess. Western media and politics are still incapable of dealing with it.

[Spencer Fernando @SpencerFernando]

Trump is picking fights with Canada and the European Union, while repeating Russian propaganda about NATO and Ukraine and praising Xi Jinping. If you don't see how dangerous this is, it's time to wake up.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Why do Trump, Musk, and the MAGA team ridicule, offend, and berate our allies but never say anything critical about our adversaries? Strange.

[Chris Anderson @TEDchris]

With a certain amount of trepidation, I'm posting this open letter to @elonmusk, someone I have admired, but who, right now, is causing me concern. I know I'm not alone in thinking these thoughts. Please like or repost if you're willing... And Elon, if you're listening, please know this is offered in a constructive spirit.

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Dear Elon,

A thought hit me this morning.

On top of all your achievements in technology and entrepreneurship, you have become this century's single most influential writer.  You have more than 200 million followers on a powerful platform that you yourself control. And the words that you write flow well beyond just those followers into almost every user of X and far beyond courtesy of extensive media coverage.   This makes Rupert Murdoch at his prime seem inconsequential.

It must feel exhilarating. You made a huge gamble buying Twitter and it seems to have paid off spectacularly to the point that you can use it to massively impact the world, including changing governments.  You believe that X can largely replace most mainstream media. It is the new platform for citizen journalism, and you are citizen number 1.  You don’t need the hassle of editors and fact-checkers. Every single thing you post garners millions of likes and reposts. In a heartbeat you can change the global conversation.  No one in history has had this much power.

So there’s a lot at stake here, and, as it happens, journalism is something I care deeply about. I began my career as a journalist because I believed that good journalism was essential for the healthy functioning of democracy. Today I am worried — quite deeply worried, actually — that in your triumphant seizing of the global conversation, some of the core tenets of journalism are being forgotten. Without them, I think your efforts to make X the respected home of citizen journalism will fail.

There are numerous journalistic principles that matter — Grok can summarize them quite nicely. But there’s one in particular that’s been troubling me. It’s the fairness doctrine. The one that says that before you publish savagely critical claims about an individual, or an institution, you reach out to them for their side of the story. After all, just possibly, you may have missed a key fact or two that would change how people assess what has happened. Just possibly your sources were motivated to cause damage to that individual. Just possibly there’s an alternative explanation of what happened.

So, for example, when you tell hundreds of millions of people that someone should be hanged or jailed for outrageous crimes against humanity, just possibly you should first sound out what those who know those people really well would say about them. Some of your recent posts could literally get someone killed. Do you really want to risk that? How is it possible that you can do this at the very same time that you’re calling on people to make X more positive, more beautiful?  You say you want to maximize un-regretted user-seconds on X.  By far the simplest way you could do this, Elon, is simply to thoughtfully edit what you yourself post.

I get that from your eyes the issues you are championing are unbelievably important and worthy of extreme efforts. But the way you are presenting them is not citizen journalism. It's playground bullying. It’s crass and it’s cruel, and it’s therefore not nearly as effective as it could be.  You’re hearing the cheers of your most loyal followers, but missing the fact you’re making yourself a laughing stock among many who you really want on your side. Long-term that’s going to damage X, your other businesses, and indeed your long-term dreams for humanity.  No one wants to follow a playground bully to Mars.

I miss the old Elon. You can be funny, interesting, insightful and inspiring. You've fought incredibly hard for what you've built. And you may feel you're entitled to do whatever the hell you want with it. But I also know that you understand the danger of holding too tightly to the ring of power, how it can distort someone's judgement and turn them ugly.

I’m hoping you can loosen that ring just a little. For the love of humanity that you profess, I really urge you to embrace the fairness doctrine and showcase a better face of X.

Thanks for listening.

Chris

[Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix]

Will PHEVs save any OEMs? The China edition:

@CnEVPost reporting on @BYDGlobal PHEV/EREV vs BEV numbers
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PHEV: MoM decline
BEV: MoM growth
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Welcome to China! #BEV 🇨🇳🇨🇳
#alwaysbecharging

[Wybren van der Vaart @WPvanderVaart]

@stekkerauto Lovely! Happy new year!!

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Historic inflection point: China set in 2020 an official target for EVs to reach 50% of car sales by 2035. It will hit it in 2025, 10 years ahead of schedule

Electrification happens slowly, then all of a sudden. Then, it's the end of the age of oil

https://t.co/fz47PhXqG5