Ian McKee
@ianmck.ee
Climate and electrifying stuff. Head of Communications at ChargeUK, the voice of the EV charging industry. Muso. Cyclist. Runner. Somerset dweller. He/him. 🏴/🇲🇽
I will précis this by saying we are ON IT with EV hub signage and the problem is getting sorted. But that doesn’t stop this being a superb bit of PR from @gridserve.bsky.social. Bravo guys.
www.thesun.co.uk/motors/37395...
www.thesun.co.uk/motors/37395...
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is making major change to Britain’s EV ‘charging rooms’
LAURENCE Llewelyn-Bowen is set to plug into a new mission – to make Britain’s EV ‘charging rooms’ impossible to miss. The flamboyant designer, famed for transforming drab homes into dazzling spaces…
www.thesun.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I will précis this by saying we are ON IT with EV hub signage and the problem is getting sorted. But that doesn’t stop this being a superb bit of PR from @gridserve.bsky.social. Bravo guys.
www.thesun.co.uk/motors/37395...
www.thesun.co.uk/motors/37395...
As a Frome resident I feel especially vindicated by this victory over the NIMBYs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Frome battery site refusal overturned by government
The plans were refused in February but have now been overturned by the Planning Inspectorate.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
As a Frome resident I feel especially vindicated by this victory over the NIMBYs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform are so good at finding waste. Here they’ve wasted millions of gov money, the time of the companies applying for the contracts, the procurement and planning teams running the process and the money of Staffordshire residents stuck driving petrol cars.
www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...
www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...
Reform UK council quits consortium and grabs back £4.6m electric vehicle cashpot
Staffordshire County Council has made the switch
www.stokesentinel.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Reform are so good at finding waste. Here they’ve wasted millions of gov money, the time of the companies applying for the contracts, the procurement and planning teams running the process and the money of Staffordshire residents stuck driving petrol cars.
www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...
www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...
Reposted by Ian McKee
UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes
UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes
Industry bodies say proposals to make public charger operators pay the rates could harm the growing electric vehicles market
The UK charging industry has said it could face a £100m bill as the government considers making public charger operators pay business rates for the first time, at a time when slower-than-expected electric car sales have put pressure on the sector.
ChargeUK, an industry body, said that its estimates suggest that operators will have to pay business rates on as many as 64,000 parking bays beside chargers which have not, up to now, been liable for the taxes. The lobby group said the change could add as much as £300 to the annual charging bill for some people if the cost is passed on to the customer. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes
Not the biggest EV misinformation problem we face, but media's image choices can't be helping consumer confusion.
Story about cross pavement home charging... accompanied by a pic of an ultra rapid motorway charging hub.
"Is my street going to start looking like a motorway service station now?"
Story about cross pavement home charging... accompanied by a pic of an ultra rapid motorway charging hub.
"Is my street going to start looking like a motorway service station now?"
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Not the biggest EV misinformation problem we face, but media's image choices can't be helping consumer confusion.
Story about cross pavement home charging... accompanied by a pic of an ultra rapid motorway charging hub.
"Is my street going to start looking like a motorway service station now?"
Story about cross pavement home charging... accompanied by a pic of an ultra rapid motorway charging hub.
"Is my street going to start looking like a motorway service station now?"
No need to ask why Trump and the US right have been instructed to prop up the dying coal industry. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
www.bbc.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
No need to ask why Trump and the US right have been instructed to prop up the dying coal industry. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump really claimed climate change is a hoax and the US is the hottest country on earth in the same speech.
September 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump really claimed climate change is a hoax and the US is the hottest country on earth in the same speech.
I find it bizarre that there are lots of progressives on X calling for a boycott of Tesla.
Are they not aware of the irony of where they are posting this?
Tesla, albeit the biggest source of Musk's wealth, isn't wholly owned by him. And isn't an online platform designed to spread hate.
Are they not aware of the irony of where they are posting this?
Tesla, albeit the biggest source of Musk's wealth, isn't wholly owned by him. And isn't an online platform designed to spread hate.
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I find it bizarre that there are lots of progressives on X calling for a boycott of Tesla.
Are they not aware of the irony of where they are posting this?
Tesla, albeit the biggest source of Musk's wealth, isn't wholly owned by him. And isn't an online platform designed to spread hate.
Are they not aware of the irony of where they are posting this?
Tesla, albeit the biggest source of Musk's wealth, isn't wholly owned by him. And isn't an online platform designed to spread hate.
To think I was once in contact with Danny Kruger MP to arrange Good Energy's founder Juliet Davenport speaking at a Wiltshire Climate Summit. Now he's off to the party of climate denial.
September 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
To think I was once in contact with Danny Kruger MP to arrange Good Energy's founder Juliet Davenport speaking at a Wiltshire Climate Summit. Now he's off to the party of climate denial.
A solid 78% wind and solar on the grid atm 👌 @neso-energy.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
A solid 78% wind and solar on the grid atm 👌 @neso-energy.bsky.social
A ‘unite the kingdom’ protest in the United Kingdom is an oxymoron. These total losers are marching to support the status quo.
September 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A ‘unite the kingdom’ protest in the United Kingdom is an oxymoron. These total losers are marching to support the status quo.
Will any surviving humans in the coming decades be asking why we let liars destroy our planet?
Or can we find a way to stop their lies and fix the systems that spread them unhindered?
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Or can we find a way to stop their lies and fix the systems that spread them unhindered?
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Farage nearly as trusted as Labour on climate change, poll shows
Times research finds that the Reform UK leader seen as having the right policies on global warming by 22 per cent of voters, barely less than Starmer and Miliband
www.thetimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Will any surviving humans in the coming decades be asking why we let liars destroy our planet?
Or can we find a way to stop their lies and fix the systems that spread them unhindered?
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Or can we find a way to stop their lies and fix the systems that spread them unhindered?
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
The latest @climateoutreach.bsky.social BTCN report shows what Reform and the Conservatives are getting wrong.
Of course people are frustrated with high costs and you can weaponise that to an extent.
You cannot confuse that with people being against climate action.
climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/
Of course people are frustrated with high costs and you can weaponise that to an extent.
You cannot confuse that with people being against climate action.
climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/
Britain Talks Climate & Nature Archives - Climate Outreach
Britain Talks Climate & Nature exists to better understand and engage with people’s priorities, questions and concerns about climate and nature.
climateoutreach.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The latest @climateoutreach.bsky.social BTCN report shows what Reform and the Conservatives are getting wrong.
Of course people are frustrated with high costs and you can weaponise that to an extent.
You cannot confuse that with people being against climate action.
climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/
Of course people are frustrated with high costs and you can weaponise that to an extent.
You cannot confuse that with people being against climate action.
climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/
What, honestly, is the point of the token jazz inclusion? Does the jazz world care? Why aren't other genres given a token inclusion?
September 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What, honestly, is the point of the token jazz inclusion? Does the jazz world care? Why aren't other genres given a token inclusion?
Watching this and now I love a band I previously just danced to at weddings and was vaguely aware are important.
Trash Theory is an antidote to rapid regurgitative nature of the modern internet. Might be the best music journo of the last decade, or two.
Trash Theory is an antidote to rapid regurgitative nature of the modern internet. Might be the best music journo of the last decade, or two.
NEW VIDEO: The B-52's are known for many things: Wigs, Rock Lobster, that Tomacco episode of The Simpsons where they reworked Love Shack into Glove Slap. This might make you think them slight, a novelty, but they are more important than you think.
youtu.be/YN1quwTNPLo
youtu.be/YN1quwTNPLo
Tragedy, Togetherness & Rock Lobster: The B-52's Story
YouTube video by Trash Theory
youtu.be
August 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Watching this and now I love a band I previously just danced to at weddings and was vaguely aware are important.
Trash Theory is an antidote to rapid regurgitative nature of the modern internet. Might be the best music journo of the last decade, or two.
Trash Theory is an antidote to rapid regurgitative nature of the modern internet. Might be the best music journo of the last decade, or two.
Another harrowing climate change impact.
Opinion: it's getting hotter — and men need to rethink the way they dress for work, writes Robert Armstrong on.ft.com/4mBJsfj
August 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Another harrowing climate change impact.
All those blokes who said 'I'll get an EV when I can drive 500 miles without charging' are going to get one now, right? Right?
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new...
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new...
This Polestar just went nearly 600 MILES without charging on real UK roads! | Autocar
Unmodified Polestar 3 beats its official range by 143 miles and sets a new benchmark for EV SUVs
www.autocar.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
All those blokes who said 'I'll get an EV when I can drive 500 miles without charging' are going to get one now, right? Right?
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new...
www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new...
This @thetimes.com chart isn't too bad at showing the petrol/electric charging cost differential.
It misses a major nuance — most EV drivers don't exclusively charge at home, slow or rapid, but a mix.
And 7,500 miles per year is lower than average. Pence per mile would be a more useful axis.
It misses a major nuance — most EV drivers don't exclusively charge at home, slow or rapid, but a mix.
And 7,500 miles per year is lower than average. Pence per mile would be a more useful axis.
August 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This @thetimes.com chart isn't too bad at showing the petrol/electric charging cost differential.
It misses a major nuance — most EV drivers don't exclusively charge at home, slow or rapid, but a mix.
And 7,500 miles per year is lower than average. Pence per mile would be a more useful axis.
It misses a major nuance — most EV drivers don't exclusively charge at home, slow or rapid, but a mix.
And 7,500 miles per year is lower than average. Pence per mile would be a more useful axis.
Currently sat in a pub garden in Somerset, England, reading Babel, a book about the beauty of language and the ugliness of colonialism, next to a couple of young lads chatting in Welsh. Do I tell them it’s really cool to hear?
August 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Currently sat in a pub garden in Somerset, England, reading Babel, a book about the beauty of language and the ugliness of colonialism, next to a couple of young lads chatting in Welsh. Do I tell them it’s really cool to hear?
What... kind of opinions? 🤨
August 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
What... kind of opinions? 🤨
Reposted by Ian McKee
NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —
Reposted by Ian McKee
Good news alert
In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4%
Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7%
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In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4%
Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7%
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...
July 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Good news alert
In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4%
Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7%
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...
In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4%
Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7%
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...
Reposted by Ian McKee
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
This seems to be @octopus.energy caught on a technicality of a technicality. There is plenty of greenwashing and bad advertising the ASA should be cracking down on, this ain't it. Least of all when it's brought to them by the fossil fuel lobby. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Octopus Energy advert banned for misleading £500 claim
The energy giant disputed the Advertising Standards Authority’s ruling
www.independent.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This seems to be @octopus.energy caught on a technicality of a technicality. There is plenty of greenwashing and bad advertising the ASA should be cracking down on, this ain't it. Least of all when it's brought to them by the fossil fuel lobby. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...