Mike Murphy

Contributor: California can fix Trump’s EV mistake latimes.com/opinion/story/…

#EVCS folks, come see @murphymike , myself, and the EVs for All America crew at our booth on the expo floor! We're at the end of the middle row coming in (pass the Alpitronic booth and keep going towards the back wall)

The EVs for All America crew here at Charging Expo in Las Vegas!

EVs helped avoid the use of 2.3 million barrels of oil daily last year. By 2030, that number could more than double to 5.25 million barrels bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

What an upset!

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Hooray for @RichardEngel, one of the greatest--and bravest--broadcast journalists of our time for responding to @POTUS's callous attack on people with learning disabilities by speaking so openlly about his own. (Me too, Richard!) I hope kids who are struggling hear his message!

Fun fact: Most of the electricity generated in Iowa (Chuck Grassley) and South Dakota (Thune) is generated by wind turbines, and their states have among the lowest electric rates in the US.

"Six months ago the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines. It gets dumber: Those four final American minesweepers left the theater in mid-January." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

🇫🇷 A French general just said joining Trump’s coalition is like buying a ticket to dinner and dancing on the Titanic – the evening after it hit the iceberg. That’s not a metaphor. That’s a military assessment. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

On this day in 1995, the last clan chief in history known to have led his men into battle died at the age of 83. Simon Fraser, the 15th Lord Lovat, was the Chief of Clan Fraser. He was the man Winston Churchill described, in a letter to Joseph Stalin, as “the mildest-mannered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.” The Scottish Commando chief whom Hitler placed a 100,000 Reichsmark bounty on, dead or alive. He was a well respected man that already had a serious war record before D-Day. The night before D-Day, Lovat addressed his men. He closed with this: “A hundred years from now, your children’s children will say - they must have been giants in those days.” Then came June 6th, 1944. Sword Beach, Normandy. As Brigadier of the 1st Special Service Brigade, Lord Lovat waded ashore leading 3,000 commandos into hell. And behind him came the sound that made the whole scene unforgettable. The English War Office had strictly banned bagpipes in battle. They said it was too conspicuous. Too dangerous. Lovat brought his personal piper, Bill Millin, and gave the order: “Play us ashore.” When Millin hesitated, citing the regulations, Lovat smiled and replied: “Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.” So Millin played Highland Laddie, The Road to the Isles, and All The Blue Bonnets Are Over the Border. Men fell around them. Bullets tore through the surf. The noise of artillery was deafening. And through it all, the unmistakable scream of the bagpipes. Captured German snipers later admitted they had Millin in their sights, but didn’t shoot him because they assumed he had gone completely mad. Lovat’s mission was to reach Pegasus Bridge, where British glider troops were desperately holding on. The schedule said 1pm. Lovat and his men fought their way off the beach and arrived at exactly 1:02 PM. He calmly walked up to the commanding officer under enemy fire and apologised for being two and a half minutes late. His commandos then marched across the bridge in the open. Lovat had ordered his men to wear their green berets instead of steel helmets, so the Germans would know exactly who was coming for them. Twelve men were shot through their berets that day. After that, they finally put their helmets on. But they held the bridge. For Clan Fraser, there was something almost mythic about it. Their ancestors had come from Normandy centuries earlier. Now their chief had led Highland soldiers back onto those same shores in one of the most decisive battles in modern history. Six days later, Lovat was given his last rites after being hit by friendly fire from a stray artillery shell. Against all odds, he survived. He returned home a hero. He went on to serve in Parliament, judge cattle internationally, and manage his massive 250,000-acre Highland estate. But his final years were marked by grief. Two of his sons died within weeks of each other in 1994. Beaufort Castle, his ancestral home, had to be sold that same year. When Lord Lovat died on 16 March 1995, an era died with him. Bill Millin later played at his funeral, bringing the story full circle. The last clan chief who went to war. The brigadier who brought bagpipes onto D-Day. The Highlander with a price on his head. Scotland does not produce many men like that ⚔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The next governor of California needs to focus on GOVERNING CALIFORNIA — effectively and well — and @MattMahanSJ is the only candidate articulating a back-to-basics agenda to make California work for all of us. As Democrats, proving good government can work must be Priority #1.

The Ford has been on a record long mission, huge strain on crews.

Our EVsForAllAmerica pod whiz @MaxPatten has a great new ep with The Man to See on EVs at Ford, Alan Clarke! Deep dive on the very exciting, world competitive, profitable(!) next gen EV coming from Ford, the largest vehicle maker in America. 🇺🇸 (Revolutionary Assembly tech too!)

EV Interest Spikes in US "A typical electric vehicle uses about 7.5 kWh of electricity to travel 25 miles...charging with household electricity, that power costs about $1.30 on average, far less than a gallon of gasoline." High gas costs boost EV! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

No Chinese support for Trump in Iran, but it is very much in Trump's and Xi's interest to have some kind of a win out of the summit. Thank you @EmilyCNBC @CNBC for a fascinating discussion. cnb.cx/4rz5txx

Smart Max Boot piece on Iran war… The U.S. military’s greatest weakness in Iran is one it can’t fix wapo.st/40uZE9t

Oil companies in the West: still debating whether EVs are viable. Oil companies in China: building charging hubs the size of fuel terminals. Shell’s biggest EV station on Earth: 📍 Shenzhen ⚡ 258 fast chargers The future isn’t waiting for Western think tanks. #Bettrification

Most fluent administration in American history in the once dead language of Moron. #IdiocracyTheDocumentary

The US does not possess infinite political capital, bandwidth, military capacity or economic resilience. Every resource expended in Iran represents energy diverted from the true tectonic challenges defining the 21st century. My take:

After taking time to digest @Rivian's R2 pricing and trim packages, I believe it can be the high-volume, mass-market EV the brand desparately needs. They may not have "hit it out of the park", but I think it's a solid triple. It would have been great if the $45k option would have come later this year, instead of late 2027, and if it had better fast charging capability, but they really delivered on most other metrics. Let's hope Rivian can launch it smoothly, without too many manufacturing scaling issues, so it can deliver the vehicle in volumes it never had to produce on its two previous models. youtu.be/s-N80kl2IIA?si…