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Mercedes tests 1MW charging for its electric truck.
The charger pushed 1,242 amps at 806v to deliver 1,001.1 kW at 22% state-of-charge (SOC).

Don't stick your fingers in that one!


https://insideevs.com/news/718026/merce ... ging-test/

Toyota now discounting the Mirai by 60% in an attempt to move them off their dealership forecourts.

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/t ... emand-dies#

Wonder how many billions Toyota has lost backing the fuel cell horse?

What's going on?
I know Musk is a strange character, and of course we don't have any real information, but why would he do this?

https://electrek.co/2024/04/29/tesla-co ... rger-team/

I think it's probably a result of undue influence of the petrochemical industry in Scotland - the only industry that would benefit from H2 heating is the fossil fuel extractors...

April 2024 - just pipped 2023's stats

11kWp Office Array.

Total generation - 1.101MWh (1.077MWh last year)
Self-consumption - 0.79MWh (72%)
Export - 0.31MWh (28%)

Overall electricity consumption 3.09MWh
Imported 2.29MWh (74%)

https://www.current-news.co.uk/octopus- ... -supplier/

Octopus now has 22% of the electricity market, surpassing British Gas (20.3%), E.ON (16.8%), OVO (13%) and EDF (10.9%).

Thought this might amuse. Yesterday - last day of April, properly sunny for pretty much the first time this year. Office solar agreed. But also a very busy day in the studio - full day of filming, and we had 2x EVs on charge during working hours, and looks like we had a public EV charge session star...

I think that the English Govt has shelved plans for H2 gas blend, but the Scottish Govt still intends to push ahead with a trial. https://kintorehydrogen.co.uk/ Thanks Joe, that was an interesting one until I read it was "providing the UK gas network with a large supply of green hydrogen",...

Sizewell C "heavily de-risked" to attract pension funds...

https://realassets.ipe.com/analysis/jul ... 23.article

This is alongside their plans to build a bigger reservoir, replacing the 40 year old turbines/generators to give it a power upgrade

https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4202 ... er-station