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For the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars, according to Carbon B
For the first time ever, more electric vehicles were sold over a 12 month period in the UK than gas cars.
The takeoff in EVs is not limited to the UK, with EV sales rising this May by 39% in Germany, 83% in Italy, and 93% in France--which has weakened the position of those striving to overturn the EU's impending gas car ban.
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"To decarbonize road transport, the world must move away from petrol and diesel cars and towards electric vehicles and other forms of low-carbon transport.
This transition has already started. In fact, global sales of combustion engine cars are well past the peak and are now falling.
As you can see in the chart, global sales peaked in 2018. This is calculated based on data from the International Energy Agency. Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates this peak occurred one year earlier, in 2017.
Sales of electric cars, on the other hand, are growing quickly.
Explore more data on electric car sales across the world"
-via Our World in Data, February 16, 2025
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A lot of the information about this unidentified airbus model comes from the Official Star Wars Fact File 83 (BUS1 and BUS2) which details specifically the GoCorp airbus seen in Episode II, but includes enough broad details about airbuses in general.
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Cancer is no more of a disease of cells than a traffic jam is a disease of cars. A lifetime of study of the internal combustion engine would not help anyone to understand our traffic problems. The causes of congestion can be many. A traffic jam is due to failure of the normal relationship between driven cars and their environment and can occur whether they themselves are running normally or not.
D.W. Smithers, Lancet, March 1962
The announcements are having their intended effect anyway. For now.
The internal combustion engine appears to be on its last lap. More than nine countries and a dozen cities or states have announced what the media has called “bans” in the last few years. Copenhagen mayor Frank Jensen wants the city to end all new diesel cars starting next year. Last December, Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City said they would remove diesel cars and vans by 2025. Norway will phase out conventional cars by 2025, followed by by France and the United Kingdom in 2040 and 2050, respectively.
Yet despite all these commitments, no country has actually passed a law prohibiting anything. “There is literally not a single ban on the books in regulatory language that is enforceable in any auto market in the world,” Nic Lutsey, director of the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), said by phone. That doesn’t make them meaningless. Politicians, most of whom will be out of office by the time any bans take effect, can’t tie their successors hands decades into the future. US president Trump, for example, is already busy trying to revoke California’s authority under the Clean Air Act to set its own pollution standards and electric vehicle mandates. If successful, Trump would negate bills such as the one proposed by the state legislature last year to end manufacturing and registration of new gasoline cars in California by 2040.
A mysterious disappearance occurred on the dark night of 29 September 1913. A scientist named Rudolph Diesel boarded a steamer in Antwerp bound for London in preparation for an important technological meeting.
His prolific scientific and engineering career preceded him; Diesel worked tirelessly from Munich and across Europe in order to discover new ways of operating a steam engine, and to find more efficient power sources. The key issues in the research surrounded fuel injection. Yet his tireless work ethic paid off; by 1892, Diesel patented an internal combustion engine, and a rational engine that replaced the steam engine. Critics had disagreed on the feasibility of such a machine, but Diesel enlisted the help Machinenfabrik Augsburg to give him technical help. The results silenced the critics.
Yet the price of fame proved steep, and Diesel wavered under immense external pressures. After release from a sanatorium, he took time off from his work.
After 10pm that dark night in September, the visionary was never seen alive again. Today marks the birthday of the man whose influence continues, as Diesel’s design ideas provide transportation for millions today.
Image: Diesels first experimental engine 1893 by Imotorhead64. CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
