David Smith
David Smith
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We wrote about Gul-e as part of our long read last year on how Oxford has become a superpower in EV tech (and bizarrely, no one seems to be shouting about it).

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Fully charged: how Oxford became an electric superpower
Quietly, Oxford has become a global powerhouse in electric vehicle charging and energy storage. You might have noticed more electric taxis, and electric buses. If you're really attentive you might ha...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I am also extremely impatient with this story. We are in an intensely contentious moment in economic politics, with major policy decisions being made or swerved with material impacts on people's lives. It is frankly a bit contemptuous that lobby journalists cannot keep their eye on the ball.
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Yes and - this could be really quite relevant to the current situation - there was a lot of "ah well fun and games, easy come easy go" for the first 12 months, as the dot com bust segued into the much more damaging telecom bust, which had much more debt financed capex.
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Strikes me that if the rightwing PP win the next election in Spain, governing as they'll have to, in coalition with the Trumpian Vox, webpages like this one from RTVE, Spain's public broadcaster, might well disappear in days...
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM