The only reason why some people can use electric cars, is because everyone else doesn’t. If all car and truck drivers were forced to use electric vehicles, the problem of recharging them would become completely unmanageable.

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Related: The Removal Of Tesla’s Dutch Treat

Tesla sales typically follow a pattern that exudes “stuffing” at the end of any quarter, and there was clearly some pull-ahead in sales into December in Holland because of the tax law change.
 
But, no statistical or seasonal anomalies could have possibly prepared me for this morning’s BOVAG figure for Tesla sales in January in the Netherlands.
 
Tesla sold 165 cars in the Netherlands in January.
 
That’s right, and that’s a 99% sequential decrease in sales. That figure was composed of 153 Model 3s, 5 Model S and 8 Model X. Seriously. For an entire month. To be fair that is a 150% increase over January 2019’s sales figure of 63 units, but, again, Tesla’s December 2020 sales in the Netherlands are, by my estimation, going to be massively lower than December 2019’s.

To be continued…

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Via WUWT – Crescent Dunes, the world largest concentrated solar power plant featuring 10 hours of molten salt thermal energy storage, just went bust.

The Department of Energy called the vast and expensive solar project a “success story” and “milestone for the country’s energy future.”
 
But you can’t trust what the government says. Crescent Dunes is a flop and taxpayers are set to lose $737 million on it, according to a new Bloomberg report. That is even more than the $535 million taxpayers lost on the corruption‐​soaked Solyndra solar project.
 
With 10,000 mirrors arrayed in the Nevada desert, Crescent Dunes does look cool. But with the much lower costs of solar photovoltaic and natural gas projects, the government’s gamble on this alternative technology was folly. Politicians never apologize for their mistakes, and the main politician responsible for this one, former Senator Harry Reid, has retired and won’t face any tough questions about wasting our money.

h/t Lance