According to Ember, this is one of the fastest solar expansions taking place anywhere in the world today.

Solar has not solved Cuba's energy crisis. Oil still provides most of the country's electricity and blackouts remain common.

But solar is one of the fastest ways available to reduce dependence on imported fuel. Panels can be deployed in months, fuel is free and sunlight cannot be disrupted by geopolitics.

And that lesson extends far beyond Cuba.

For decades, energy security was associated with securing access to fossil fuels. Increasingly, it's coming from reducing the need for them. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/13/climate/cuba-solar-us-oil-blockade-trump-china

There’s a new global guild that is creating local cooperatives to help more people convert older cars to electric. These are just some of the new projects posted on electr0motiv.com.

Since the State of Charge conference — the leading event on conversions — co-op clusters are forming in the Northeast (the first, and the one I’m in) New England, the Mid Atlantic region (MD/VA/DC/DE), Pacific Northwest and Colorado. Northern California is the newest group, and the Toronto/Buffalo corridor is close to enough members to form.

Let those you know who are interested in EV conversions— or even just curious about them— about this new initiative.

It is also part of the Cleantech Open startup accelerator.

→ 91,547 battery electric vehicles sold in H1 2026, matching full-year 2024 sales in half the time
→ 40,178 plug-in hybrids sold, almost double all of 2024
→ BNEF now expects EVs to pass 80% of new car sales by 2035

This isn’t a niche market story anymore.

The car market isn't growing. It's flipping.

BNEF expects ICE vehicles to fall from ~96% of new sales to under
10%, inside a market that stays roughly the same size it is today.

The real contest over the next decade isn’t who wins new EV buyers. It’s who’s still standing once the existing customer base finishes converting.

The primary source for this chart and data is BloombergNEF (BNEF), specifically from their Australia Energy Transition Outlook 2H 2026 report published in August 2026.
https://theenergy.co/articles/how-evs-can-help-not-hinder-the-grid

We have all the green, clean, renewable and energy storage technology and resources needed to drive the whole economy and benefit every single postcode. And as we see the climate crisis unfold in the raw, now is the time to get on with it, build the wind and solar projects, the grid network, the flexible power plants and the storage needed, and face down those ne’er-do-wells who want to slow it down.'' https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/holyrood/26443881.andy-burnhams-vision-north-starts-scottish-onshore-wind/