If you're in France then check out the IECharge network. They install grid-connected battery reinforcement at electricity substations and tack on EV charging. As a result, they are able to offer the cheapest prices. The locations can be a little bit urban fringe, but the price is right!

A £15 Bluetooth to ODB2 adapter plugged into the car's diagnostic port (behind the cover by the driver's right knee), and the £5 "Car Scanner" mobile phone app (free version available). Here's an updated screenshot at 96k miles. Some cheaper ODB2 adapters don't work, so LMK if you'd like details.

@octopus.energy posted me a 321 page electricity bill printed out on A4 paper as a 5cm thick parcel (on their "Agile" tariff the rate changes every 30mins, so 48 line items per day).
They'd tried emailing it, but at 15 MB the email exceeded my server's size limit, so they posted a hard copy instead…

Last week we piled our family into the used EV that we bought last year and took the overnight ferry to Dieppe in Normandy, then drove the 600 km to my brother's house in Dordogne. The "IECharge" rapid charger network only cost €0.25/kWh, I assume they keep costs down by connecting to the HV grid.

Apparently only 48% of Americans. Not sure what sort of miracle they are (and the whole 2% who've changed their mind were previously) expecting. At least the disapproval number is shifting more rapidly (up >5%).

@bmweu.bsky.social (amongst other organisations) has announced they'll stop posting on X. Can't say I'm in the market for a new car, but I'm happy that at least some movement which financially harms this fascist appears to be resulting from these actions.

Works OK in the UK via energy retailers (principally Octopus) but I think this isn't how most of the US is set up (Texas being an exception I think?

... always a great conference and well worth a visit. Large enough that it usually spawns 5 to 10 fringe events (usually preceding). Every time I go, I seem to find some unexpected gem of a talk - 2024's was probably Scott Chacon's "So you think you know Git" archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedul...

Some aspects of the UK govt presentation are good - it calls out thermal power station conversion losses explicitly (and they fall off the bottom of the chart in an illustrative way) - it would be better if it did the same for transport conversion losses tho' (edited repost - fix serious typo!)...

I may well be preaching to the choir here but have you seen Michael Liebreich's similar "Hydrogen Ladder"? V5 included below... His "Cleaning Up" podcast also includes a few hydrogen focused episodes (e.g. on the economics of moving the stuff around).

Firefox 115 (ESR) on Linux

"between 9:00am and 9:30am on 21st December 2023 British wind farms averaged a record 21.81GW of generation" source: grid.iamkate.com It might have been a record for lowest proportion of fossil generation tho'. Not sure if it got lower, but that's when I happened to look today...

Check out this local crime against form-factor (with added bonus thermal bridge cringe points).

The I have some Xiaomi ones which I like. About £10 each with Sensirion T+H sensor, and e-paper display. Runs off a single CR2032 for about a year (depending on sampling frequency), and transmits data via Bluetooth Low Energy for central logging.