Why the War on Iran Is Accelerating the Shift to Renewables and EVs

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Tom Raftery discusses how the war on Iran is accelerating the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles.

Get in touch - leave me a message What if fossil fuels aren’t energy security at all, but exposure dressed up as realism? This war is making that harder and harder to ignore. In this bonus episode of Climate Confident+, I unpack why the US and Israel’s war against Iran is forcing a faster rethink of fossil fuels, renewables, EVs, and electrification. This is a solo episode with me, Tom Raftery, and the stakes couldn’t be clearer: if your economy, business, or household still depends on fuels ...

People in this episode

Host: Tom Raftery

Topics covered

• renewable energy
• electric vehicles
• fossil fuels
• geopolitics
• energy security

Keywords

• renewables
• EVs
• fossil fuels
• energy security
• Iran
• US
• Israel

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Iran, US, Israel

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