EV sales outpace petrol cars; workers found alive in Nepal; and illiterate boyfriend tests

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Electric vehicle sales in Australia have exceeded petrol cars for the first time.

More than 27,000 EVs were sold in August, a new record for a single month and representing 24.9% of new cars sold. The climate-friendly technology surpassed both petrol vehicles (nearly 26,000 sold) and diesel cars (23,600).

The rise in EVs has been helped by two factors – the war in Iran pushing up oil prices and making running a petrol car significantly more expensive, and the introduction last year of a federal vehicle emissions standard that required auto companies to cut average tailpipe emissions year-on-year.

The climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, said EV sales surpassing petrol cars was a “landmark moment”.

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“I was alive, and I hadn’t been in a long time.” – Tim Andrews, pig kidney recipient

Tim Andrews was seriously ill with end-stage kidney disease caused by type 2 diabetes and had only a 9% chance of receiving a human kidney within five years, against a more than 40% risk of dying or being removed from the waiting list.

But in a world first, and thanks to a genetically modified kidney from a pig called Wilma, Andrews was kept alive for a record nine months while he waited for a human transplant.

Can your boyfriend read? Women are giving their partners the “Illiterate Boyfriend” test on TikTok. Users have compiled a list of what are essentially SAT words for women to ask their male partners to read. Many of these men – this is an overwhelmingly heterosexual activity – fail to finish the list unscathed.