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Tristan Perry
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Tristan Perry writes Green Car Future, a personal blog at greencarfuture.com about hardware and science. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for electric-car explainers on topics such as Norway's EV adoption, regenerative braking, EV production emissions and Tesla. Commenters cite its articles as sources in discussions of EVs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
by Tristan Perry
What Hacker News says?
It may have in the early days (just like many countries' oil programmes), however now the fund is helping to provide subsidies which makes gasoline cars more expensive than electric cars (amongst other policies), and hence Norway is now one of leaders of EV adoption (per person): https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/how-norway-so-many-e...
Comment linking /electric/how-norway-so-many-electric-cars
on “Norweigan oil fund”https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/2018/12/12/are-evs-h... The actual production of an EV _can_ result in more emissions (along the whole supply chain) than petrol cars, yes. Although the vast majority of car manufacturers (and supply companies) are geared up for producing petrol cars and not EVs, so it's no real surprise that _right now_ electric cars aren't as efficient to build. The more that electric cars a…
Comment linking /electric/2018/12/12/are-evs-harmful-for-environment.html
on “Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030”Did the P85D actually come to a full stop via regen? I thought that was only a feature of newer Tesla models. The newer models are certainly capable of stopping using the motor alone, you can feel the friction brakes engage to hold you at a stop. Edit: https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/tesla-one-pedal-driv...
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on “USPS Forges Ahead with Gas-Powered Mail Trucks Despite EPA's Desire for EVs”Pretty much everyone who follows the space knows it, even Jalopnik themselves: https://jalopnik.com/in-case-you-needed-a-reminder-tesla-fan... The article starts with "I know that we often get accused of having a strong anti-Tesla bias on our site". You can read a balanced article about this here: https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/why-jalopnik-hates-t...
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on “Elon Musk Took $17M in Federal Charging Grants Before Firing Supercharger Team”This isn't a universal truth. It varies by vehicle, and apparently even by what level of regen is selected. https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/does-regen-braking-t...
Comment linking /electric/does-regen-braking-turn-on-brake-lights
on “Tesla Vehicle Safety Report”According to this article [1], the brake lights do come on. But the article is from 2021, so who knows if that is still true (or if it was ever true for all Teslas, since they only tested one). 1: https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/does-regen-braking-t...
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on “Tesla Vehicle Safety Report”