First quarter electric car market share by year in Denmark:

[rubbel@snabelen.no]

@mihamarkic @joacim @randahl There were no charging points in Norway when we started the EV adoption either. You need to organize if you want change. Put pressure on landlords and politicians. Change will come.

[numodular@c.im]

@cauZation @randahl Amazing to see the political theater congress is displaying on the war powers act, when the president has veto power.

Now France24 broadcasting is using more anti-American rhetoric to justify the EU's clear divorce of US partnerships.

This is a pretty steep fall, and I still stand firm, along with other historians, that ignorance is still the ultimate enemy. There's just too few Americans educated enough to make a difference.

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@rubbel @joacim @randahl A little like chicken and egg situation.

[joacim@mastodon.melin.org]

@rubbel @mihamarkic @randahl Yeah well there's not enough power grid to feed our condominium area at the moment. That will probably fix itself in a few years but I will probably have moved away by then.

[saarmuller@mastodon.social]

@Eetschrijver I suppose you have the luxury to charge your car at your house? Here in #Amsterdam infrastructure for electric cars runs far behind and the network in the #Netherlands has serious capacity problems. The individual choice isn't as simple as it seems here in particular if you need an invalid parking spot. I refuse to be called "stark crazy" for a choice I didn't have. @randahl

[susibryant@mastodon.social]

@saarmuller @Eetschrijver @randahl

[davidm_yeg@beige.party]

@saarmuller @Eetschrijver @randahl

This *is* an important point… every place that a car can be parked for a length of time should be capable of slow charging that car, because mostly cars just sit and slow charging is the most energy and cost efficient way to charge them.

[davidm_yeg@beige.party]

@Fruitknife @randahl

Canada … 11.2%

[notsoloud@expressional.social]

@mihamarkic
Dunno how the roads are around your place, but you can charge an e-bike at home and it will replace some of your car trips. But you probably thought about that

I'm just a little excited about the possibilities of the fossil car to e-bike transition
@joacim @randahl

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@mihamarkic @rubbel @joacim @randahl

there's a new thing in #China where you drive up, a machine swaps out your dead batteries for fresh ones, and on you drive

less time than it takes to fill your car up with gas at a pump

kind of like how we swap empty for full propane tanks for our backyard grill

this could be the way forward

it even saves gas stations from extinction

range and charging time/ availability is the big problem with #EV

this idea solves that problem

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/18/nx-s1-5788990/ev-battery-charge-long-china-nio

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@cauZation @randahl

right but there's blame placing, and solving the problem

i am not saying we should not seek justice

but i am saying we should not stand in the way of solving the problem in our desire for justice

we should do both

solve the problem, and apportion proper blame

[minmi@sfba.social]

@benroyce @mihamarkic @rubbel @joacim @randahl

This is especially useful for electric scooters with little batteries you can just pop in and out.

Eg https://www.gogoro.com/gogoro-network/

You can set up the chargers with their own solar panels too.

[emmecola@fediscience.org]

@randahl Well done, Danes!

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @rubbel @joacim @randahl This tech appears here and there but so far it doesn't stick since car manufacturers prefer integrated non removable battery. AFAIK even Tesla tried this way only to forget about it soon after. It'd require battery standardization if nothing else, but there is zero will

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@mihamarkic @rubbel @joacim @randahl

correct, zero will now

but the kind of thing that could grow some will

[theejj@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @mihamarkic @rubbel @joacim @randahl I’m a fan of anything that convinces people to move away from gas vehicles.

That said, there’s a huge misunderstanding about how to make EVs convenient. People need to stop thinking of EVs as cars that fill slowly, and understand that they are cars that fill up passively. Anytime in EV is parked it can charge. THAT is the real convenience. These are cars that can use a regular outlet to just be full ALWAYS.

[enigma@norden.social]

@benroyce
the idea and prototypes by Peugot, Renault in France is not new. And in China it isn't new either.
@mihamarkic @rubbel @joacim @randahl

[chuckmcmanis@chaos.social]

@benroyce

This stuff is patented (see https://patents.google.com/patent/US12187155B2/en and https://patents.google.com/patent/US8164300B2/en?oq=US8164300B2) but there are others as well. Tesla refused to license the patent(s) and so for the initial growth of EVs this wouldn't happen. In China they are more competitive and this area has recently seen a lot of innovation.

[the5thcolumnist@ottawa.place]

@TheEjj @benroyce @mihamarkic @rubbel @joacim @randahl

Which means workplaces like INCO (now Vale) in Sudbury that have outlets for block heaters in the winter can allow their use for slow EV charging all year round.

[cejjacobs@mastodon.social]

@benroyce not really new, look it up on wiki (1896!). The thing is: battery life is an issue for many car owners. With swapping you might get a less healthy battery in return, or perhaps you don’t own it. So it makes you dependent on a company (whereas EV driving makes you less dependent overall, as you can charge at home)
@mihamarkic @rubbel @joacim @randahl