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Full Archive · 34 Fact Checks
This One Checks Out: Cheap Chinese EVs Are Matching Pricier Rivals for Crash Safety
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Australia & Oceania
India Is Building a 1,000km Power Line Just to Get Solar Out of the Desert
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Rest of World
The EU Just Approved Up to €35 Billion to Keep Germany's Gas Plants Running
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Europe & UK
Texas Hits Pause on New Data-Centre Power Hookups: the Grid Can't Tell Real Demand from "Ghost Demand"
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North America
Seven Home Battery Models Frozen Out of the Federal Rebate Over Paperwork, Not Safety
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Grid & Backup Power
A State-Owned Battery Got Fined for "Profit-Maximising": the Real Story Is a Software Bug, Not a Cash Grab
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Grid & Backup Power
Australia's "24.9% EV Record" Month Isn't the Year's Number Either
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Australia & Oceania
Tesla's "8,000 Model Ys in a Month" Record: Real Number, One Big Caveat
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Australia & Oceania
Europe's Solar Records and Its Price Spikes Are Both Real: And Not a Contradiction
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Europe & UK
The UK Grid Operator's "Cutting Diesel Backup" Announcement: A Future Goal, Reported as Today
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Grid & Backup Power
China's "World's Largest" Solar-to-Hydrogen Project: Largest by Which Measure?
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Rest of World
Nigeria's New EV Push, on a Grid That Struggles to Keep a Fridge Running
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Rest of World
US EV Sales "Bounced Back" After the Tax Credit Ended: Bounced Back From What?
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North America
NSW Says It "Smashed" Its Battery Storage Target: Smashed Against Which Number?
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Australia & Oceania
New Zealand's "94.5% Renewable" Grid Claim: True for an Hour, Not the Year
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Rest of World
When "News" Is Just a Press Release Wearing a Byline
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Australia & Oceania
The "$6.2 Billion Diesel Health Cost" Headline Everyone Copied, Nobody Read
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Grid & Backup Power
Australia's Own Testers Checked 20 EVs Against Their Claimed Range. None Matched It.
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Australia & Oceania
An EV Lobby Group's Website Makes Five Big Claims: None of Them Sourced
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Australia & Oceania
America's "Record 86 GW" of Solar and Storage: A Plan, Not Yet a Result
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Grid & Backup Power
Pakistan's "7,000 MW" of Rooftop Solar: Nobody Actually Knows the Real Number
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Rest of World
A German Utility Just Walked Away From 3GW of UK Offshore Wind
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Europe & UK
California's "Instant" $3,500 EV Rebate: Genuinely Instant, With a Catch
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North America
Is a Gas Turbine Shortage Really "Derailing" the AI Data-Centre Boom?
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Grid & Backup Power
The "World's Largest Battery" Isn't Lithium: And That's the Whole Point
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North America
India's "90% EV Surge" Is Really an 83% Surge in Just One Slice of the Market
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Rest of World
Britain Paid Wind Farms Over £1 Billion to Switch Off
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Europe & UK
"One in Five" Australian Cars Sold Are Electric: For One Month
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Australia & Oceania
Australia Quietly Relaxed Its Diesel Standard. Here's Why That Matters.
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Grid & Backup Power
Texas Had a "Boring" Grid Summer: And the Numbers Back It Up
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North America
South Africa's 365 Days Without Blackouts: Whose Win Is It?
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Rest of World
The EU's 25% Solar Month: Real, With One Small Correction
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Europe & UK
Two "World's Largest Battery" Claims, Measuring Two Different Things
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Grid & Backup Power
Australia's Biggest Data Centre Runs on a Small Refinery's Worth of Diesel
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Grid & Backup Power