Rob Woolmer

Sustainability, peace.

[Redwood Materials @RedwoodMat]

The solution to America’s growing energy demand might already be on our roads. As millions of EV batteries retire from vehicles, many still have years of useful life left. Redwood Energy redeploys them as grid-scale storage today, powering data centers and strengthening the grid, before we recover their critical minerals at end-of-life.

[Starlink @Starlink]

Starlink is providing connectivity for 30 schools in remote parts of Kenya, improving digital literacy for students and teachers 🛰️❤️

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

If self-driving cars are 8x safer than human drivers and we refuse to deploy them because of one bad case, we are choosing to let hundreds of thousands of people die per year to protect our feelings about control.

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@TeslaJigsaw @snuuzu @teardowntitan Imagine someone had just bet you £££ you'd never be able to shoehorn Sandy Munro through the back door (not tailgate) of your MY like a wheelbarrow!

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@RPHFGO @ICannot_Enough Not necessarily, Tesla sells in China now and competes very well.

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@Julie_Bayley_ @Starlink @grok what will £35 monthly subscribers being paying in £'s from June (got a feeling it will be £40 for us UK users)

[Tesla @Tesla]

For a driver born without arms, FSD Supervised is life-changing accessibility

“I was born without arms and have driven with my feet my entire life. I’m a fully licensed driver, and traditionally I drove with my left foot on the steering wheel and my right foot handling the gas and brake. My only legal restrictions are automatic transmission and power steering.

Over the years, though, the strain from my congenital birth defects has led to significant arthritis in my hips. I drove a Model 3 for the past seven years, and it honestly helped extend my independence in a huge way.

Recently upgrading to the Model Y – along with Full Self-Driving – has been a complete game changer for me.

It dramatically reduces the physical pressure and fatigue of driving and has helped preserve a level of freedom and mobility that means a great deal to me.

Most people understandably think of Tesla in terms of innovation or sustainability, but for some of us, this technology truly becomes life-changing accessibility.”
– John F.

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@TeslaJigsaw Wow!

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@DrunkAt12 @elonmusk Tesla sells very well in China, where they do have a lot of competition from Chinese EVs!

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@BigYuriNator @KateFantom @BenGrahamUK Try reading this as it explains nicely how we know the warming is due to humans and this site links to the peer reviewed science:-

https://t.co/Ijab0mZPxl

[Jordan - The EV Guy @JordanEVGuy]

The internet is convinced “diesel is back” and “diesel is the future” after seeing a few headlines, and making up their own stories.

You can tell a lot about a company by how it reacts when the market moves on without them.

Stellantis are the first legacy car maker to accept that they have got it wrong, and have given up.

In 2025, Battery Electric Vehicles made up 19.5% of all car sales in Europe, up 4.1% year-on-year, and will grow again throughout 2026.

But here’s the interesting part👇🏼

If you look at the top 25 best-selling BEVs across Europe, only ONE Stellantis vehicle made the list.

The Citroën e-C3, which is their budget EV.

When you zoom out to brand performance across EV sales:

• Peugeot ranked 13th
• Citroën ranked 16th
• Opel ranked 19th
• Leapmotor ranked 24th

Meanwhile, they were comfortably outsold by Volkswagen Group brands like Skoda & Audi, Tesla, and even BMW, which wasn’t far behind the entire Stellantis portfolio combined.

So you’d expect the reaction here to be “let’s build better electric cars.”

Instead, Stellantis has quietly reintroduced diesel versions of some of its most popular models like the Peugeot 308 and DS No.4.

This is despite diesel making up just 7.7% of the European market in 2025 (and falling), and just 5.33% in the UK.

We are literally watching legacy manufacturers try to re-enter a shrinking market, rather than compete in the one that’s growing, because they have accepted that they can’t.

Demand for electrification isn’t slowing down, but some boardrooms clearly haven’t figured that out yet.

Build better EVs or get left behind, like Stellantis.

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@DaveKent101 @rhaetional @BarackObama @grok Climate scientists know the past CO2 peaks. It's the rate of change that's important, and currently that rate is unprecedented.

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@CuriousAboutEVs @KonstantinKisin Here here, spot on. I wish this point was put up as the counter argument more often!

[Electric Vehicles for the EV Curious (book) @CuriousAboutEVs]

Whoever is ranting in this video seems blissfully unaware that Britain's high electricity prices are due to a dumb market design where the price of all power is set by the marginal cost of gas. While gas sets the price, renewables already dominate generation; if the market were decoupled to separate gas from green energy, consumer prices would drop to reflect the lower cost of renewables.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

Change has never been easy. It takes persistence and determination, and requires all of us to speak out and stand up for what we believe in. As we honor Dr. King today, let’s draw strength from his example, and do our part to build on his legacy.

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@kaninikanaps @TheBritishIntel @grok could the UK government block a VPN?

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@Steviec1485 @SawyerMerritt You don't pay tax on unrealised gains (like stock). You pay it when you sell it. He sold stock in 2021 and paid a little over 50% in tax ($11B).

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

The Trump regime wants to dismantle a world leading climate research center. Why? Because the US has become a petrostate where the government has been captured by fossil fuel interests. They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full on denial of reality. 🤯

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@Patriot__au @digitalcleavage @JordanEVGuy Explain why it's rubbish. Which bits in particular do you disagree with?

[Rob Woolmer @robo1968]

@Patriot__au @digitalcleavage @JordanEVGuy Fossil fuels subsidies topped $7 Trillion in 2022 https://t.co/IFDUiQD2A7