Derek Strocher

[Derek Strocher @ImpactCFO]

#cockwomble

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Number of electric vehicles on the road:

2010
🇺🇸 USA: 3,800
🇪🇺 EU27: 2,840
🇨🇳 China: 1,940

2015
🇺🇸 USA: 400,000
🇨🇳 China: 297,000
🇪🇺 EU27: 250,000

2020
🇨🇳 China: 4,490,000
🇪🇺 EU27: 2,180,000
🇺🇸 USA: 1,740,000

2022
🇨🇳 China: 14,100,000
🇪🇺 EU27: 5,700,000
🇺🇸 USA: 2,960,000

Note: including BEVs and PHEVs

According to Bruegel

[BloombergNEF @BloombergNEF]

Are electric vehicles really that clean?

The answer is a resounding yes. EVs have lower lifecycle emissions than gas cars - and by 2030, the difference will be even starker. https://t.co/j13AW22qk9

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Less Than $10,000!

"BYD launches cheaper Seagull electric car with starting price under $10,000 to fuel price war."

BYD declares war on ICE and oil, proclaiming "electricity is cheaper than oil." Legacy ICE automakers are rapidly running out of time.
https://t.co/VoUZWruo3d

[Nicklas (MED) 🇸🇪🚗🚀✨ @NicklasNilsso14]

We are considering switching from an electric car to petrol or diesel. I have some questions to see if it really suits me and my family and hope someone knowledgeable can help?

1. I have heard that a petrol car cannot be refueled at home but I have to go to a special place for this? How often do I have to fill up, is it several times a year? Will there be options for refueling at home? We are used to the car being filled up every morning, as sort of by itself.

2. Are there many parts that need to be replaced? The seller said something about oil and filter change, gearbox, timing belt and other service. Do you see how many percent degradation you have on the wearing parts or will they break suddenly?

3. Do I often have to brake with the brake pedal, or can I accelerate and brake with the same pedal as in my current car? Do I get gas back into the tank when I brake or go downhill?

4. Do all petrol and diesel cars have much slower acceleration? I test drove one yesterday and it felt like it took a very long time from when I stepped on the gas pedal until it reacted. Maybe there was something wrong with that particular car?

5. We now pay $0.02/mile but with the petrol it will be about $0.13, even if the new car is cheaper to buy it will very soon cost more. We drive 15,000 miles per year. We hope that more people will use petrol so that the prices will go down... is there such a trend?

6. I have understood that petrol and diesel consist largely of oil. Is it true that the extraction of oil is associated with global environmental problems and widespread wars with absolutely terrible consequences for people around the world, including several world wars and trouble in the last 100 years in which tens of millions of people have died? Is there any solution to that in sight, we don't want to contribute to such crap, do we?

7. My son also heard that petrol cars emit fumes and toxic gases. I’ve read about air pollution and its impact on respiratory health. Are we contributing to that by switching to a petrol or diesel car?
Will these pose risks to our health and the environment?

... have more questions but these are the ones I came up with now. Thanks for all the help!

[Derek Strocher @ImpactCFO]

A #Legend

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Terry Fox was a cancer patient who ran 5,373 km across Canada in just 143 days before he died.

Terry thrilled the entire country. His goal was to receive one Canadian dollar for every Canadian in the population (then 24 million people), and he achieved his goal by raising 24.17 million Canadian dollars in February 1981.

A year after Terry Fox's death, the Terry Fox Foundation was created, which promotes amateur races across Canada and in several countries to support the fight against cancer.

According to the Terry Fox Foundation, more than C$715 million has already been raised for cancer research on Terry Fox's behalf.

[Derek Strocher @ImpactCFO]

@calvertimpcap Investor Survey is live! Tell us: what motivates your investment decisions, what issues do you care about, what challenges are you facing? This directly influences our work for the coming year, so please provide your insights. https://t.co/YiWBlq6zZA

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

A startling info graphic from the @UN - demonstrating the dire consequences of half a degree. Are you ready to say good bye to 30% of all marine life?

There is no time to waste. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #oceans

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Alexei Navalny was asked what his message would be to people if he was killed.

His response from the Academy Award winning documentary about him directed by @DanielRoher

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: Global sales of gas-powered vehicle sales peaked in 2017, dropped every year since 2017, and are down 23% from peak.

EVs were 20% of global auto sales and 35% of sales in China in Q4 2023. Global EV spending rose 36% in 2023.
https://t.co/2565ehkZvv

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

#ClimateChange 🌡️ exceptional and caused by human greenhouse gas emissions 🏭

We are causing #globalwarming 100 times faster than past natural changes

We are taking Earth’s climate beyond natural limits, with CO2 & temp levels not seen for 3 million yrs

Climate change is real

[Derek Strocher @ImpactCFO]

This is how populations change....#heatpumps didn't all of the sudden become a better solution, but to overcome the inertia to change from gas furnaces installed, there needed to be the threat of Russia. People need to understand the #ClimateCrisis as the same kind of threat.

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

Whoa, heat pump sales are taking off in Germany.

[Derek Strocher @ImpactCFO]

Comments like this are the problem: "electric cars, they don't go far"...actually, they go exactly as far as any other kind of car - probably even further because they are better engineered - they just travel that far using electricity instead of gasoline. #ElectricVehicles

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: We’re going to place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to debank you from your— your political beliefs what they do. They want to debank you. We’re going to debank— think of this. They want to take away your country. Electric cars

[Derek Strocher @ImpactCFO]

Read MS by @matt_levine today re: the idea of buying "brown" companies (as per Shue/Hartzmark) as a way to fight #ClimateCrisis. Rebutted this before (https://t.co/elRKdpaFIJ). Change comes from better alternatives (re: green), not convincing coal co's to be a little less brown.

[Derek Strocher @ImpactCFO]

Right, except there's no such thing as "low carbon oil and gas". #ClimateCrisis
Cop28 president says his firm will keep investing in oil https://t.co/SqPaAdJR1M

[Derek Strocher @ImpactCFO]

Whenever I hear the call for "flexibility" or "balance" in the #EnergyTransition I am left to wonder, where was the flexibility over the last 100 years when the world was tilted into massive imbalance? Time to right the ship! #ClimateAction

[Reuters @Reuters]

COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber urges flexibility on fossil fuel deal

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

My God. Stop what you're doing and watch this.

[Evelina Stoikou @EvelinaStoikou]

The results from @BloombergNEF's 2023 lithium-ion battery price survey are out. Battery prices are back to their declining trajectory, after an unprecedented year of increases in 2022. Average pack prices reached a new record-low of $139/kWh, a 14% decline from last year.⬇️

[IPCC @IPCC_CH]

#COP28 starts this week.

Current policies make it likely that #globalwarming will exceed 1.5°C during the 21st century & make it harder to limit warming below 2°C.

#IPCC's Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action.

🔗 https://t.co/zAMzd12TGF

[Prof. Peter Strachan @ProfStrachan]

Eight things the world must do to avoid the worst of #ClimateChange
1. Stop methane emissions
2. Stop deforestation
3. Restore degraded land
4. Change what we eat
5. Go #RenewableEnergy
6. Use energy more efficiently
7. Stop burning #FossilFuels
8. #ActNow https://t.co/8wNURqsLfL