Exclusive 🚨 Carmakers were the only ones to get the Transport Secretary's ear during the ZEV mandate consultation. It's led to one senior EV leader to brand DfT 'shambolic'. Eeek! www.fastcharge.email/p/exclusive-...

Scoop from moi... The UK's first electric fire engine hasn't been used for real in 3 years - despite promises to have it on the frontline in 2022. Why? 🚒 Read about it 👉
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Idea for hospital machines that go ‘ping’.

Can we introduce daytime sounds and nighttime ones. For example, at 2pm when Paul’s heart is going wild. Have the big noisy ‘nee naw’ one.

But. Between 11pm to 7am. Why not a whale call? Or. If some calls for a nurse, what about a crashing wave.

Idea for a multi millionaire looking to revive their image. Please, please, please donate contactless payment to public car parks in Britain.

RingGo, PaybyPhone and all of the other apps are fucking nightmare.

Scoop! The climate group Transport & Environment lobbied the UK to soften the definition of hybrids being sold after 2030, despite publicly calling for tough action on ICE vehicles.

Full story (including screenshots of their response) 👇
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Is China's luxury EV behemoth NIO about to make a fresh entrance into UK manufacturing?

The government told me this week they’d support it.

Story from yesterday 👇 www.fastcharge.email/p/is-a-uk-ch...

Yesterday I revealed that, one year after BT Group announced grand plans to convert up to 60,000 old green street cabinets into public EV chargers, they have pulled the plug on their pilot.

They only managed to install one charger. Story below!

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Ha! Best PR of 2025 so far by Blackstone who appear to have persuaded media their huge purchases of warehouses relates to logistics.

Meanwhile… no mention of their HUGE interest in data centres. Chapeau!

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Great point made here about the auto industry. Why do we always skip to no. of vehicles sold versus the actual revenue of car companies for measuring success? glennmercer.substack.com/p/peak-car-r...

My take on Lou Haigh’s resignation… (Tin hat on)

1/4.. No10 was already unhappy with her and it was open knowledge in Whitehall circles that they planned to move her early next year.

Bizarre advert on The Times app within a story on Stellantis closing its Luton factory

Ford today: ‘The ZEV mandate is unworkable.’

Ford in 2022: ‘We don’t think the proposed targets go fast enough.’

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Full story in Guardian, and featuring my newsletter 👍
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