Ian McKee

@ianmck.ee

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Climate and electrifying stuff. Head of Communications at ChargeUK, the voice of the EV charging industry. Muso. Cyclist. Runner. Wiltshire dweller. He/him. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🇲🇽

June car registrations by fuel type 2026 2025 % CHANGE MKT SHARE ’26 MKT SHARE ’25 BEV 63,950 47,354 35.0% 30.0% 24.8% HEV 29,874 23,835 25.3% 14.0% 12.5% PHEV 26,702 21,382 24.9% 12.5% 11.2% PETROL 84,541 88,029 -4.0% 39.7% 46.0% DIESEL 8,099 10,716 -24.4% 3.8% 5.6% TOTAL 213,166 191,316 11.4%
Anakakin and Padme meme: Anakin: I'm cancelling the freeze on fuel duty and loosening sanctions on Russian oil Padme: but you're making public ev charging cheaper too right? Anakin: Padme: Right?
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero LinkedIN post announcing: "Our Fuel Finder scheme mandates all UK petrol stations to report their prices, helping households with a car find the best deals and save around £40 a year. Apps and websites are now displaying real time fuel prices, meaning drivers can find the cheapest fuel at stations close to them."
Cartoon of a climate summit where a presenter has listed all the benefits of decarbonisation (energy independence, clean air, healthy children etc) and someone in the audience asks ‘what if it’s a box hoax and we create a better world for nothing?’
A bar with a screen showing the rugby with men in berets in the foreground.
UK's top 10 bestselling cars in 2025: Ford Puma, Kia Sportage, Nissan Qashqai, Vauxhall Corsa, Nissan Juke, Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Tiguan, MG HS, Hyundai Tucson, Volvo XC40
Richard Holden MP asked the Secretary of State for Transport where he can find the latest EV charging figures at local authority level in parliament.
Screenshot of a story from The Times titled "Rules on EV chargers to be eased for motorists without driveways" accompanied with an image of an Ionity ultra rapid charging hub.
NESO’s GB electricity generation mix showing 61% wind and 17% solar.
Chart titled 'No driveway? No savings' showing yearly running cost of electric v petrol cars dependent on where you charge. Chart shows costs over time of a home EV tariff, slow public charger, fast public charger and petrol assuming 7,500 miles driven per year.
Screenshot of a journalist request from 'Independent Gasoline Marketing Magazine' looking for 'Experts needed for opinions on EV charging stations'
Screenshot from LinkedIn where Juliet Davenport says "Well said Nigel Pocklington - Good Energy has always been at the forefront of finding ways to create a renewable Britain not just make money, insisting that Renewable Energy Suppliers balance renewable energy in their own portfolios will do more to support a balanced system than zonal ever could !"
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Climate stripes being projected onto a wind turbine with a group of people watching in the foreground.
Oxford University’s Professor Dieter Helm has said that estimates on the impacts of renewable energy have historically overlooked the cost of preventing issues surrounding unreliable weather, for example.
City AM website headline claiming "Exclusive: Government admits fossil fuels use is cheaper than net zero technology"
Photo taken from a crowd watching a panel of four people with a projection of 'The News Meeting' behind them.
Drake meme: Yes to: Writing crucial stories we share with them about consumer transparency and climate change No to: Writing cobbled together clickbait based on our support articles
"What Ofgem is proposing is more to hide standing charges within the unit rates, even allowing energy firms to charge more for the first units of energy which is completely the opposite from what we actually need," said Jonathan Bean, from campaign group Fuel Poverty Action. Peter Smith, from charity National Energy Action, said the system would still be unfair and impact on the most vulnerable. "We are particularly worried pre-payment meter customers may be left racking up increasingly unaffordable charges, which will continue to need to be repaid in full before they can turn on the lights or run a warm bath for their children," he said.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tweeting earlier this week about how as AI gets more efficient and accessible its use will skyrocket.
Screengrab from the FT Alphaville blog headlined "A fork in the road for Tesla" with the stand first "Clean power versus white power"
No music on a dead planet t-shirt, inspired by the wavelength illustration from Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album, except the wavelengths are all flat.
Graphic showing year on year growth of EV charge points in 2024. Slow/fast +36% to 59,228 Rapid +19% to 7,450 Ultra-rapid +83% to 7,021 Total devices +38% to 73m699 Total charging hub locations +103% to 537
Screen shot of an article on inews titled 'heat pumps to be installed in most UK homes despite fears over cost'
Screenshot from government announcement on its Clean Power 2030 goal stating "We will measure this by being on track to achieving at least 95% of low carbon generation by 2030 in line with advice from the National Energy System Operator (NESO)."
A great spotted woodpecker flies between branches in a bit of woodland.
A green woodpecker with red on top of its head and yellow feathers on its back, sat on a garden fence.
Screenshot of an article about Casey Means, health influencer behind RFK Jr's 'MAHA' movement, and the cover of her book which is titled 'Good Energy'.
A grey ragdoll cat is poised to pounce towards the pheasant.
A common male pheasant on a lawn by a fence.
Screen shot from a Telegraph article about a Department for Transport backed campaign to tackle myths about electric cars, which puts the word 'myths' in inverted commas.
Screen shot of the Glastonbury tickets holding screen with 12 green progress bars, and the message that tickets are now sold out.
Summary of BBC News app notifications which suggests Sue Gray may have been lined up for the post of Archbishop of Canterbury.
OK you got it!
Screenshot of a cat on a table. Video analysis: 2.8m views, 540k views, 1,596 comments, 169k shares.