Telsa's Elon Musk is concentrating on humanoid robots and Canadian truckers. Is he losing his way? Plus Big Oil is screwing us on orphan wells but lookout for lawsuits from environmentalists paving the way to cleaner future.

After a winter blizzard hits the home city of this podast, James learns two things: 1. Siding comes off houses easily and 2. Gas cars are dangerous when you're stuck in a snow drift. Not true for electric cars.

Brian researches an 1920s story of light bulb companies colluding to make their bulbs only last 1000 hours.

A local EV buyer was surprised at range loss in the Hyundai Ioniq 5 even though it's not that bad. He also says the sales person knew nothing about electric vehicles behond that they have four wheels.

Elon Musk Cray or Slay: humanoid robot obsession and unpopular political opinions. Will Elon stop believing in climate change one day soon and if so, what will that mean for the planet?

Tennis Australia announced that it had ended a sponsorship arrangement with oil and gas company Santos early. The sponsorship deal covered Santos’ logo being featured in on-court signage at both the ATP Cup and Australian Open and was supposed to run across multiple years starting at the 2021 Australian Open.

A new study by Atlas Public Policy on the total cost of ownership for EVs says EVs are beating gas equiv. vehicles in all categories across the board.

Ford Escape room game.

A federal judge on Thursday canceled oil and gas leases of more than 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, ruling that the Biden administration did not sufficiently take climate change into account when it auctioned the leases late last year.

The decision by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia is a major victory for environmental groups that criticized the Biden administration for holding the sale after promising to move the country away from fossil fuels. It had been the largest lease sale in United States history.

Now the Interior Department must conduct a new environmental analysis that accounts for the greenhouse gas emissions that would result from the eventual development and production of the leases. After that, the agency will have to decide whether it will hold a new auction.

The Canadian Press is reporting that the Cost of cleaning up Orphaned oil wells in Canada, mostly Alberta and Saskatchewan, will be a billion dollars by 2025, but that figure doesn’t include many costs, so it’s likely much more than that. There’s already 10,000 orphan wells, and another 7,400 that are abandoned but not yet considered orphaned. The billion dollar figure doesn’t include other infrastructure like pipelines, or the oil sands.

Elektrek is reporting that electric bikes are now outselling electric cars and plug-in hybrids in the US.

According to data released by the LEVA, the US saw nearly 790,000 electric bike imports in 2021. That marks a 70% increase from the 463,000 imports in 2020. Also in 2021, Americans purchased 652,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids, according to BloombergNEF.

Porsche Taycan goes coast-to-coast with just 2.5 hours of charging!

Volkswagen has successfully converted its Zwickau plant from an ICE factory to a pure EV production facility.

Transport Canada announces ‘Defect Investigation’ into Tesla Model 3/Y heat pump issues, seeks feedback from owners.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory has released a report looking at future energy storage needs for the US electricity system. It finds little need for energy storage beyond 6 hours of duration until 2040's when grid reaches 90%+ renewables. 

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