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EVs and climate change

29 June 2026

We're told that EVs will help reduce the rate of climate change.

Instead of guzzling huge quantities of fossil fuels and belching CO2 from their exhausts, EVs will instead sip gently from the font of renewable energy and ensure that mother nature's vital cycles are protected from harm.

Sounds great -- although in some countries, a fair amount of the electricity used to recharge an EV comes from fossil fuel and even here in New Zealand we're still dependent on the stuff for at least some of our power generation.

Unfortunately, I think there's about to be a real race take place, between increasing global temperatures and EVs.

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I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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