Dr. Andy Palmer @AndyatAuto

@hiltonholloway Relatively simple with BESS sitting behind the charger.

@MotoGE77 Jamie is an amazing driving talent and deserves a shot at the highest tier of motorsport

Chinese has its own architectural beauty @CRRC_ZELC

June 3 (Reuters) - British new car registrations in May were about 6% higher than a year ‌earlier, driven by strong demand for plug-in vehicles, with battery electric vehicles (BEV) accounting for 27% of all new registrations, data from New Automotive showed on Wednesday.

PETL has acquired the Kleandrive bus re-powering operation as a going concern through administration. The acquisition preserves a specialist British engineering capability in heavy vehicle decarbonisation. Live customer programmes continue without interruption. Kleandrive's technology converts existing diesel buses to fully electric powertrains, allowing fleet operators to decarbonise without the capital cost or embedded carbon of buying new vehicles. For many regional operators and local transport authorities working under tight budgets, it is the most commercially viable route to zero emission running. The acquisition extends the PETL group's clean propulsion portfolio. PETL is one of the UK's leading developers of battery and battery management system technology, including through our wholly owned subsidiary Brill Power, a University of Oxford spin-out. Adding repowering capability gives us a direct route to deploy that technology at scale in one of the highest impact segments of UK transport decarbonisation. Dr Andy Palmer CMG, Co-Founder and CEO of PETL, said: "Britain keeps losing its industrial base one company at a time. Repowering existing diesel buses is one of the most cost-effective ways for operators to decarbonise their fleets. It deserves to be built here, by British engineers, and we intend to make sure it is." More information about the acquisition can be found here: palmerenergytechnology.com/post/palmer-en…

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Lots of controversy in the replies - but let me add that @Ferrari intentionally repeated the same “shock strategy” it used with: * the FF, * GTC4Lusso, * and later the Purosangue SUV. All were heavily criticised initially — and then sold extremely well. This car is aimed at the Chinese market - it’ll be judged on it order pipeline and I’m told this extends into 2027!

Truly innovative cars are generational; cars like mini change the way we think and they count on revolutions in architecture and technology to enable them. When I was at Nissan and responsible for the LEAF, we consciously developed a vehicle which utilised the assets and advantages of an EV, but fitted within a relatively conventional design to acclimatise the consumer to a generational change. Nevertheless, I always felt and still feel that car companies needed to be braver and explore the addition design degrees of freedom that an EV platform avails - that thinking, love it or hate it, led to the Nissan BladeGlider I’m many times on record, calling for car companies to be braver. And so I applaud the new @Ferrari Luce EV direction for challenging the norm and yes it is… going to take some getting used to. One can say the same about the Jaguar Type 00 and the Bentley EXP 15; the Mercedes-AMG GT 4dr and the Cybertruck. A car’s style is a personal choice; but the more car companies that experiment, the more our image of what a car should look like will evolve. In that sense, I have to congratulate Ferrari for their foresight and bravery and hope that fortune favours the bold.

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@CarsCommentary BladeGlider I’d buy tomorrow

@tiff_tv @IndyCar Actually the F1 racing is great - and they have right turns! (That said I loved the Indy500 as well)

Who says @F1 racing isn’t exciting this year! It’s bloody great!

The investment in Ellesmere Port and indeed in Sunderland, would not exist without the ZEV mandate. It gave confidence to the OEMs to invest in the U.K. and it was set in agreement with them. The OEMs complied with the mandate in 2024 and 2025 and will comply in 2026. Changing the mandate will further undermine the trust in U.K. Labour need to spend their energy showing leadership through the mandate and encourage inward investment by the OEMs including the Chinese; if not, they will invest in CEE and Spain. The investment made by Nissan (for which I was responsible) for the Nissan LEAF in 2011 and the investment by AESC (a company I founded between Nissan and NEC) in U.K. against all odds (thanks to a Labour Govt) was a chance for the U.K. to reestablish itself as a manufacturing powerhouse - it was a close decision but it was won on the back of NMUK world class efficiency- don’t go down in history as the party that wasted that opportunity!

@hiltonholloway Come and visit us in Oxford!

@hiltonholloway @FUDdaily Fair question- in U.K., 51% of EV drivers said they still have a second petrol/diesel vehicle in the household.

Interesting article, but I think this depreciation effect is not unexpected. Prior to the arrival of Chinese cars, most legacy manufacturers were trying to charge an unrealistic premium on RRP for an EV. The rational was fairly understandable; EVs were not at scale and they therefore had a higher BoM cost. But the market price is elastic and won’t reward premium pricing. This is largely now solved by the Chinese entrants who have more realistic RRP’s and are forcing legacy companies to follow suit. Depreciation percentages are from RRP and don’t reflect the actual transaction prices. The actual depreciation from customer TP to 3 year residual price is pretty much the same as you’d expect. Just on long term durability, while accepting that the market doesn’t know because of the nascent nature of EV, it’s likely that the long term reliability of an EV will be superior to its ICE counterpart- simply based on the number of moving parts between the two. The market will solve both points over time, but it’ll take a few years of transition.

It really isn’t - the F1 battery is tiny 2026 F1 energy store ~1.1 kWh Typical 12V car battery ~0.5–1.0 kWh So pretty much the energy of the 12v starter battery in your car. Compare that to Formula E Gen3 battery: ~38–40 kWh Or a Tesla Model 3 Long Range: ~75 kWh It’s less than a road going “self charging “ hybrid

Fatih Birol, boss of International Energy Agency: “Electric cars are now - worldwide - 30% of new car sales. Five years ago, it was 5%” It’s why fossil fuel lobbyists are so relentless right now. EVs are increasingly cheaper to buy, cheaper to fuel, cheaper to service and better to drive. “15 years ago solar was a romantic story. Now it is everywhere… wind and nuclear will make a big contribution as well” If you look outside the UK, these changes are everywhere and huge