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This One Checks Out: Cheap Chinese EVs Are Matching Pricier Rivals for Crash SafetyChecks OutAustralia & Oceania India Is Building a 1,000km Power Line Just to Get Solar Out of the DesertChecks OutRest of World The EU Just Approved Up to €35 Billion to Keep Germany's Gas Plants RunningClaim CheckedEurope & UK Texas Hits Pause on New Data-Centre Power Hookups: the Grid Can't Tell Real Demand from "Ghost Demand"Claim CheckedNorth America Seven Home Battery Models Frozen Out of the Federal Rebate Over Paperwork, Not SafetyClaim CheckedGrid & Backup Power A State-Owned Battery Got Fined for "Profit-Maximising": the Real Story Is a Software Bug, Not a Cash GrabClaim CheckedGrid & Backup Power Australia's "24.9% EV Record" Month Isn't the Year's Number EitherClaim CheckedAustralia & Oceania Tesla's "8,000 Model Ys in a Month" Record: Real Number, One Big CaveatChecks OutAustralia & Oceania Europe's Solar Records and Its Price Spikes Are Both Real: And Not a ContradictionClaim CheckedEurope & UK The UK Grid Operator's "Cutting Diesel Backup" Announcement: A Future Goal, Reported as TodayClaim CheckedGrid & Backup Power China's "World's Largest" Solar-to-Hydrogen Project: Largest by Which Measure?Claim CheckedRest of World Nigeria's New EV Push, on a Grid That Struggles to Keep a Fridge RunningClaim CheckedRest of World US EV Sales "Bounced Back" After the Tax Credit Ended: Bounced Back From What?Claim CheckedNorth America NSW Says It "Smashed" Its Battery Storage Target: Smashed Against Which Number?Claim CheckedAustralia & Oceania New Zealand's "94.5% Renewable" Grid Claim: True for an Hour, Not the YearClaim CheckedRest of World When "News" Is Just a Press Release Wearing a BylineClaim CheckedAustralia & Oceania The "$6.2 Billion Diesel Health Cost" Headline Everyone Copied, Nobody ReadClaim CheckedGrid & Backup Power Australia's Own Testers Checked 20 EVs Against Their Claimed Range. None Matched It.Claim CheckedAustralia & Oceania An EV Lobby Group's Website Makes Five Big Claims: None of Them SourcedClaim CheckedAustralia & Oceania America's "Record 86 GW" of Solar and Storage: A Plan, Not Yet a ResultClaim CheckedGrid & Backup Power Pakistan's "7,000 MW" of Rooftop Solar: Nobody Actually Knows the Real NumberClaim CheckedRest of World A German Utility Just Walked Away From 3GW of UK Offshore WindClaim CheckedEurope & UK California's "Instant" $3,500 EV Rebate: Genuinely Instant, With a CatchChecks OutNorth America Is a Gas Turbine Shortage Really "Derailing" the AI Data-Centre Boom?Claim CheckedGrid & Backup Power The "World's Largest Battery" Isn't Lithium: And That's the Whole PointChecks OutNorth America India's "90% EV Surge" Is Really an 83% Surge in Just One Slice of the MarketClaim CheckedRest of World Britain Paid Wind Farms Over £1 Billion to Switch OffClaim CheckedEurope & UK "One in Five" Australian Cars Sold Are Electric: For One MonthClaim CheckedAustralia & Oceania Australia Quietly Relaxed Its Diesel Standard. Here's Why That Matters.Checks OutGrid & Backup Power Texas Had a "Boring" Grid Summer: And the Numbers Back It UpChecks OutNorth America South Africa's 365 Days Without Blackouts: Whose Win Is It?Claim CheckedRest of World The EU's 25% Solar Month: Real, With One Small CorrectionChecks OutEurope & UK Two "World's Largest Battery" Claims, Measuring Two Different ThingsClaim CheckedGrid & Backup Power Australia's Biggest Data Centre Runs on a Small Refinery's Worth of DieselClaim CheckedGrid & Backup Power