EVs: 1 in 5 EV public charging stations do not work
And the failure rate is increasing: Roughly one in five public charging attempts fails, with 72% of them attributed to equipment issues. “Just adding stations isn’t the answer … we…
Less than 1 in 5 Americans think their next vehicle will be an EV
Nearly 80% of the public cite the lack of charging infrastructure as a primary reason for not purchasing an electric vehicle. Source: Nearly half of Americans say unlikely they’ll buy…
Demographics: Visualizing the World’s Plummeting Fertility Rate
Good visualizations at the link. Short-term solutions like immigration can help until populations are shrinking in every country. Longer-term solutions—reducing the cost of raising a child, and providing better support…
Demographics, Automation: Drone deliveries to homes and businesses
A US startup has won permission to fly drones over people and beyond the view of their operators in New Zealand, a key regulatory step that could help open the…
Demographics: “A Global Population Shortage Is Coming, Will Cause Economic Chaos”
The global population decline is in motion. And that could hamper the world’s entire economic model, leading to a dramatic crippling of our global economy, says Sebastian Dettmers, CEO of…
“Population bomb” theory debunked
50+ years ago, the Population Bomb was published, predicting a dire future of calamity, starvation and war due to population growth. This was followed shortly after by a report from…
Demographics: Oregon’s population decline
The population research expert adds, “migration is a hot-button topic but actually, fertility rate is one that I would highlight. The birth rate has been declining. Pre-pandemic, we projected that…
Public health: NPIs didn’t work, and few now trust public health
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1645640530846715905
Memory issues on the blog
I have several blogs running on a shared web server host. For several months, they have been offline 1-3% of the time – which is terrible uptime performance. Yesterday, the…
EV sales need to grow 34% every year to achieve 2030 EV goals
To reach 60% by 2030, that means we need to grow EV sales at a compound annual growth rate of 34% between now and then – a similar growth rate…
Evs, Education: “Exposing the structural violence of private electric automobility”
WE MUST BAN ALL PRIVATE AUTOMOBILES AND TRANSPORT SAY ACADEMIC EXPERTS. Electric vehicles are “VIOLENCE”! EVs are a source of “structural violence”: A wolf in sheep’s clothing: Exposing the structural…
Public health oops: Masks made no difference in health care settings
In a world moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and medical offices have been the last bastions of mandatory masking. But new research finds that in communities where pandemic…
Climate Future Followup: Global Warming will cause more baseball homeruns
Abstract Home runs in baseball—fair balls hit out of the field of play—have risen since 1980, driving strategic shifts in gameplay. Myriad factors likely account for these trends, with some…
Business: Frontier Airlines pays $10 bonus to staff for each carry-on they reject
Dyana Villa shared a video of her experience traveling with Frontier , in which she and her friends can be seen fitting their bag into the baggage sizer. She later…