ivan

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I'm rarely using X due to amount of spam and bots. Keeping account so people know where to find me.

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

Back home after a great road trip holiday in an EV. Here's the approximate route (named places are where we stayed) (BTW - Hamburg -> Copenhagen -> Stockholm on the way there; Oslo -> Odense -> Osnabrück on the way home).

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

On the M20 heading to Le Shuttle. Start of a roadtrip from London to the Arctic Circle. (Photo taken by a passenger)

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

@bmay Unfortunately, the people who vote Reform won't learn anything from it and the rest of us will suffer the consequences

[Just Dave now @justdavenow89]

@dave60776 some people would say its loony to vote for a party of ex tories who ruined the country once
lead by the man that lied about brexit and fucke the country

[Lisajay87 @lisajay1987]

@justdavenow89 I live in a town with a reform council, they have put council tax up by max, upped the garden bin price, scrapped free parking on wknds even for badge holders, upped car parking fees, evicted two food vans from the town with 4 days notice and now bins collected every 3 weeks.

[Fitzjimi @fitzjimi]

Local councils are elected to run local services; bins, libraries, sports facilities, litter etc. Do not elect anyone only interested in fastening flags to lamposts. Flags won't get your bins emptied & streets clean & they will close the other stuff to buy flags, fact folks👍

[Flibberty Gibbert @ReturnOfDadbo]

Reform will fucking destroy every Council they are put in charge of.

That’s a fact.

Fancy voting for them?

You’re beyond help.

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

@BladeoftheS See: https://t.co/leXz4Si2rO

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

Don't vote Reform anywhere, but specially not in Bromley. They want to take Bromley out of London so you'll lose your older person's travel card ("freedom pass")

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Victoria Derbyshire spend 8 minutes taking apart Nigel Farage's £5,000,000 gift

"As you'd expect we asked Reform UK for an interview tonight. One Reform UK press officer asked: with who and to discuss what"

"We said we'd like to talk about the local elections, the detention centres in Green areas, and £5m gift from Christopher Harborne"

"We didn't receive another reply"

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

If it didn't affect so many people's lives, it'd be grimly amusing to watch all these Reform councils collapsing as they slowly realise that they can't actually save millions, deliver tax cuts AND fix potholes by sacking a Diversity Officer and banning rainbow lanyards.

[Sam @SamCKx]

It's staggering how much misinformation is spewed on social media by those brain-washed by the ultra-right/Reform propaganda machine.

Net migration has fallen from over 900,000 in 2023, to around 200,000 last year.

Small boat crossings were around 4700ish in Q1 this year, around half the Q1 2023 figure.

Despite these facts, I am seeing people literally seething, literally radicalised into openly and repeatedly sharing the myth that Labour are somehow responsible for an unpresendented and out of control immigration epidemic.

People will vote because of this. They will literally put into power the people responsible for manipulating them and lying to them. And those politicians will screw them, just like they did with Brexit. They will make them poorer, and angrier, and keep finding more minorities to blame for it all.

The saddest part, I think it's gone so far that there's almost nothing we can do about it.

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

Low information voters are so damaging to themselves and others.

Don't vote Reform. You aren't a billionaire. How much has Brexit benefitted you? Reform is the renamed Brexit party. Don't be fooled again.

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

@denialvibes @janusvh2 I highly recommend you watch this (I have no affiliation with the channel, this is just a very thorough video about what charging options are available)

https://t.co/PYar4OJDu3

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

@hjwakerley MG5 (EV) if he can charge at home, because there's less to go wrong than an ICE car and they're really cheap to run (if you can charge at home). I know it's not a manual, but honestly an EV drives like a manual that's always in the correct gear rather than like an automatic.

[Dr. Andy Palmer @AndyatAuto]

The claim that climate change is “real but not existential” is a distraction. No serious scientist argues human extinction is the risk. The risk is systemic damage that compounds — and it’s already visible at ~1.3°C of warming.

Measured reality, not panic:
• Extreme heat events that were once 1-in-100 years now happen roughly every decade.
• Sea level rise is accelerating — satellite data shows the rate has more than doubled since the 1990s.
• Heat is already reducing crop yields; this is observed, not modelled.

Calling that a “moderate inconvenience” is fantasy economics. Permanent losses of even 1–2% of GDP per year compound into trillions and lock in instability — especially for poorer regions.

The “renewables made no difference” line collapses under basic facts:
• Wind & solar are now the cheapest new electricity in most countries.
• Fossil use rose because global energy demand exploded, not because clean energy failed.
• Where renewables scaled fastest, power-sector emissions fell fastest.

Even Elon Musk — hardly a climate activist — is blunt: solar + storage will dominate because it’s cheaper, scalable, and inevitable. That’s physics and economics, not ideology.

Yes, activists exaggerated timelines. That doesn’t repeal thermodynamics.
We don’t deny heart disease because someone once overstated the risk.

Climate change isn’t the apocalypse.
It is a risk multiplier for food, water, health, migration and conflict — and dismissing that as “panic” isn’t realism, it’s complacency.

Sanity isn’t declaring victory.
Sanity is acting before costs compound beyond easy repair.

We both have kids; even the Mail accepts there is Climate Change - why wouldn’t we make it better if we could and even more so, if we could create a compelling U.K. economic advantage by doing so. As ever, I remain open to meeting and discussing all things battery and auto (since I’m not qualified to talk about anything else).

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

@The_Office9 @sciencegirl She is wearing gloves and dark clothes in most of this video so it is difficult to tell either way

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

@McguigganPeter @LyndonRosser @MDC12345678 And yet Denmark, Sweden and Portugal have both cheaper electricity and more wind power than UK, so the price is high in UK for some other reason (hint, it's how electricity prices are mostly set by gas)

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

@gavmarten @autocar Ethiopia has already banned import of new and second hand ICE cars. Norway to follow shortly if they haven't already.

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

@AlexEdgerton I've only had something like "range anxiety" when I drove a diesel because if you run out of fuel in a diesel it can mess up the engine because of sediment in the bottom of the tank.

I don't plan charging stops in an EV - just leave the car navigation to show charger locations

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

@RealBriansDad @michaelwood92 @ListerLawrence https://t.co/W4svrXdzSU

[ivan @ivanrmoore]

@ryanjacko2691 @AntiEVidiots @Mrtnvrbst @tommuk00 @ListerLawrence I've driven up to Scourie in an EV - much further north than Invergarry. There are @ChargePlaceScot chargers all over Scotland.