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An AI researcher's resignation post drew over 110 million views on X and a week of wall-to-wall coverage. Tailpipe and smokestack pollution killed an estimated 74,000 people in Europe in 2024 — one every seven minutes — and got a line in a think tank PDF.
Read →Air pollution killed an estimated 74,000 people in Europe in 2024 — one every seven minutes. Meanwhile the moral-panic machinery that once came for Elvis is fully deployed against TikTok, and hundreds of people show up to fight data centres. Nobody holds a town hall about tailpipes.
Read →Dead EV batteries are classified as hazardous goods, so moving them costs on average 16 times more than standard freight. That single line — not chemistry, not physics — is a big part of why European recycling doesn't pay. Fixing the logistics could cut costs around 34%.
Read →Tesla has filed 3,953 crash reports under NHTSA's Standing General Order for driver-assist systems. Journalist Fred Lambert found that all but two are stamped [REDACTED — confidential business information] — including reports on crashes that killed people.
Read →UL's Fire Safety Research Institute spent nearly $3 million over three years burning six EVs and three fuel-powered cars. The finding: similar fire growth rates, similar peak fire sizes, similar durations. Meanwhile the urgent "park outside" orders keep landing on combustion vehicles.
Read →Nearly 1,700 London children were tracked against a matched group in Luton. Before the ultra-low emission zone, the London kids had significantly smaller lungs. By 2022 the gap had closed. Meanwhile the US EPA is proposing to weaken 2027 diesel truck standards affecting 72 million Americans.
Read →Since 2021, NHTSA "park outside" fire recalls have covered 4.6 million gas-only vehicles against about 662,000 EVs and hybrids — a seven-to-one gap you almost certainly never read a headline about.
Read →Ten Americans died with Tesla's FSD engaged in ten months. Vehicle exhaust kills roughly 385,000 people a year worldwide — and not one of them counts as a car accident, because nobody hit anything.
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