By Cal Jeffrey

Smile, you're on robotaxi camera

Big Brother is watching: As robotaxis struggle to break free of their isolated testing pockets, one thing is becoming clear: if you see an autonomous vehicle, it sees you too. Police departments in cities where these services operate are increasingly seizing footage from the cars when they believe it could help an investigation – but what does that mean for your privacy?

In April, the Los Angeles …

Phil Baker

There is a question that skeptics of electric vehicles love to raise every time I write a positive column about EVs. It sounds reasonable when you hear it: “Sure, your EV uses no gas — but what about the oil used to create the energy to charge it? How is that any better?” It’s a fair question. It just happens to have a very clear answer, and the answer still favors EVs.

The …

By Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman

The Trump administration on Thursday filed a new lawsuit against California over its strict limits on planet-warming pollution from cars, arguing that the restrictions would unlawfully force a rapid transition to electric vehicles in the state.

The suit comes roughly nine months after the Republican-controlled Congress moved to block California from banning sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035. It targets clean car rules that California has continued to …

By Ian Austen and Jack Ewing

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced several measures Thursday aimed at making Canada a global leader in electric vehicles and rescuing an industry ravaged by U.S. trade policy.

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced on Thursday a sweeping plan to offer billions of dollars in incentives and tax breaks for auto industry investment designed to help turn Canada into a global leader in electric vehicles.

The new policies, Mr. …

By Dan Wang

Opinion - Guest Essay

President Trump has an unconcealed hunger for natural resources from abroad and the power they could grant him. He declared that the United States intervened in Venezuela to “take the oil,” betting that investors would put up at least $100 billion to revive a decrepit industry. His gamble is that countries will still want to buy oil from America to power their cars, trucks, ships and planes for …

By Andrew J. Hawkins

The Blue Oval is betting its future on a new “universal” vehicle platform and manufacturing process that will require more automation and fewer workers.

Ford says its finally cracked the code on cheap EVs.

The automaker announced plans to build “a family” of low-cost electric vehicles at its Kentucky assembly plant, starting with a four-door, midsized $30,000 pickup truck in 2027. Ford touted the announcement as its “Model T moment” that …

By Lydia DePillis and Bhadra Sharma

Subsidies, hydroelectricity and a manufacturing powerhouse neighbor are moving the cars into Nepal faster than almost anywhere else.

The narrow streets of Kathmandu — sized for pedestrians and rickshaws — are choked with engines. Buses, motorbikes, small trucks and taxis fill the sprawling valley with horns and exhaust. For its more than three million residents, just getting around is a dangerous, eye-stinging ordeal.

But recently, a new kind of …

By Neal E. Boudette

The driver gave testimony in a federal trial about Tesla’s role in a 2019 accident that killed a woman in Florida.

The driver of a Tesla car that killed a woman in 2019 testified in federal court on Monday that the company’s Autopilot driver-assistance system had failed to warn him of an impending accident or engage the brakes.

The driver, George Brian McGee, was driving his new Tesla Model S on …

Because Lincvolt is an electric car, I believe it is an important part of the future of our planet, our home. We need to act together to change the way this world is. Ecosystems are critical to the health and continuance of Earth as a healthy place for all beings to live. Destruction of Earth’s ecosystems must be avoided and reversed. Our climate has been disrupted by our over use of fossil fuels. Every time …

By Adam Nossiter

As a senior designer at G.M., he helped create the exuberant, elongated shape of 1960s and ’70s cars like the Pontiac GTO, the Bonneville and the Trans Am.

William L. Porter, a car designer who helped create the shapes of some of the most celebrated American vehicles of the late 1960s and early ’70s, died on April 25 at his home in Whitmore Lake, Mich. He was 93.

His death was confirmed …

By Heather Knight

In the parking lots of Mill Valley, Calif., mysterious index cards have surfaced on the windshields of Tesla Model Xs and Model 3s.

“Stop Elon,” they urge in teal script. “Dump your Tesla.”

A few years ago, buying a Tesla in Mill Valley meant that you had money, but were not overly showy. It meant you were a progressive environmentalist who had style.

It meant you belonged.

Ten miles north of the …

By David Shepardson, Arsheeya Bajwa and Akash Sriram

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab is recalling nearly all Cybertrucks in the United States to fix an exterior panel that could detach while driving, the company said on Thursday, the latest in a series of call-backs for the pickup truck.
The recall covers just over 46,000 vehicles built from November 2023 through February 27 of this year, Tesla said in a filing …

By Sara Ruberg

Seven Tesla charging stations were intentionally set on fire on Monday at a shopping center outside Boston, the police said, the latest in a series of attacks against the electric vehicle company since its owner, Elon Musk, built a deep partnership with President Trump.

The charging stations were set on fire around 1:10 a.m. at a shopping center in Littleton, Mass., about 30 miles outside of Boston, according to a news release …

By Natalie Venegas

When Mike Schwede first sat in a Tesla Roadster 15 years ago, he felt like it was a glimpse into the future. By 2016, he was the proud owner of a Tesla, revelling in the thumbs up he would get from other drivers as he whizzed along Europe’s highways in the electric vehicle.

But of late the sheen of owning a Tesla has begun to wear off. For years the brand has …

By Natalie Venegas

What Is Newsom Proposing?
Newsom's proposal seeks to reimagine the state's previously successful Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, which concluded in 2023 after facilitating the purchase of nearly 600,000 EVs and saving over 450 million gallons of fuel, Newsom's office said in a statement.

The funding for the new rebates could come from California's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a revenue stream supported by the state's cap-and-trade system.

Details about the program's cost and …

By Nicolás Rivero

For about a decade, Tesla has been the world’s biggest EV producer, making its luxury vehicles the most ubiquitous electric cars on the road.

But now a very different type of car, made in China and selling for as little as $10,000, is vying for the top spot. China’s BYD, which makes more than a dozen models of all-electric sedans, SUVs and minivans, built more electric cars than Tesla last year, the …

By Jack Ewing

To a large extent, the electric vehicle market in the United States runs on Democratic policies. There are federal tax credits for car buyers. Subsidies for battery manufacturing. Cheap loans to build electric car factories. Grants for chargers. Regulations that push automakers to sell more vehicles with no tailpipe emissions.

All of that support — amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars — could go away soon after the inauguration of President-elect …

By Rene Marsh, Ella Nilsen, Tami Luhby, Chris Isidore and Phil Mattingly, CNN

CNN — Vivek Ramaswamy, the incoming co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump’s commission to cut government spending, has set his sights on money the Biden administration is dispersing in its final days in office, including a key loan to a rival company of his commission co-chair, Elon Musk.

Last week, the Department of Energy announced a $6.6 billion conditional loan commitment to Rivian, …

By Miles Klee

“Teslas are the safest cars on the road, but most people don’t know that,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) last year. The superlative is typical of the billionaire, and the automaker itself, which boasts that its vehicles “are engineered to be the safest in the world.”

But while Tesla’s cars routinely receive top safety ratings, including from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, accident statistics show that the …

Donald Trump’s transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Ending the tax credit could have grave implications for an already stalling US EV transition. And yet representatives of Tesla – by far the nation’s biggest EV maker – have told a Trump-transition committee they support ending the subsidy, said the two sources, …

By Peter Johnson

NIO and its suppliers are forging a new path in China’s EV market. WeLion New Energy Technology, NIO’s semi-solid-state EV battery maker, saw a 31% increase in installations last month. The growth comes as NIO officially began renting its 150 kWh battery pack for the new ET7 this month, enabling over 621 (1,000 km) CLTC range.

NIO semi-solid state battery maker sees growth in May
NIO launched the ET7, powered by a …

A new Mix model by Zeekr, a Chinese electric vehicle brand, at the Beijing auto show.Credit...Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times

By Keith Bradsher

Automakers in China are building a new generation of bigger, more technologically advanced and competitive electric cars, threatening to leap further ahead of their global rivals as they step up exports around the world.

The dozens of car companies operating in China plan to put 71 new battery electric models …

Once considered a laggard, the German luxury carmaker is one of only a few established automakers that has been able to compete effectively against Tesla.

By Jack Ewing

Employees conducting inspections of electric vehicles at BMW’s plant in Munich.Credit...Laetitia Vancon for The New York Times

As BMW car bodies glided down an assembly line in Munich recently, showered by sparks from robotic welders, it was hard to tell which vehicles would be powered by batteries, …

The fourth recall in two years covers nearly all of Tesla’s models in the United States. Credit: Jim Wilson / The New York Times

The automaker began issuing software updates on Tuesday following a lengthy investigation by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor, The New York Times

Tesla on Tuesday recalled more than two million vehicles to update a function designed to ensure drivers are focused when using its Autopilot feature, according …

Volvo EX30 reveal (Source: Volvo)

By Peter Johnson. electrek.co

EV sales surged past 300,000 for the first time in the third quarter, a nearly 50% increase over last year. As automakers like Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, and Hyundai ramp production, Tesla’s market share is slipping.

The latest quarterly EV sales estimates from Cox Automotive dropped Thursday, showing a record 313,086 electric cars sold from July to September. EV sales have now expanded for 13 straight quarters.

…

Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes

Toyota has up to now been seen as something of a laggard in the electric vehicle market. Photograph: Indranil Aditya/ NurPhoto / Rex / Shutterstock.

By Bob Davies, The Guardian

Toyota says it has made a technological breakthrough that will allow it to halve the weight, size and cost of batteries, in what could herald …

Ford chief executive Jim Farley sat for an interview at The Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival in May 2023, and the conversation kept circling one question: who is Ford actually racing against? Not just the old carmakers, in his telling. The competitors that matter now are the technology giants — Apple, Google — and Elon Musk's Tesla, companies that treat the car as a computer first.

The Times Contrarian previously carried the Journal's …

Annu Kilpeläinen

By Ezra Dyer, The New York Times
Mr. Dyer is a columnist for Car and Driver magazine.

Tesla had me convinced, for a while, that it was a cool company.

It made cars that performed animatronic holiday shows using their lights and power-operated doors. It came up with dog mode (a climate control system that stays running for dogs in a parked car), a GPS-linked air suspension that remembers where the speed bumps …

Benjamin Reynaga unscrewing the main lithium battery from a vehicle at LKQ’s plant in Adelanto, Calif. Credit: Gabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times

Many companies and investors are eager to recycle batteries but it could take a decade or more before enough used lithium-ion batteries become available.

By Niraj Chokshi and Kellen Browning, The New York Times
Reporting from Adelanto, Calif.; Reno, Nev.; and Rochester, N.Y.

Benjamin Reynaga used power tools to hack his …

The Electric Car Could Finally Put AM Radio Out To Pasture

from the it-was-nice-knowing-you dept

By Karl Bode, techdirt.com

There’s a long way to go before the electric car revolution even comes close to the version that currently exists in everybody’s heads. Getting enough rare-Earth minerals to ramp up EV production at the scale most have in mind will be a big challenge. Then there are other issues related to safety thanks to EVs’ incredible …

By Will Lockett

This next-gen technology solves EVs’ biggest problems.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are incredible. They are faster, more efficient, and way better for the environment than the gas-guzzling cars of old. Yet, we are still far from being able to switch everyone over to this revolutionary technology. You see, EVs are still too expensive, take too long to charge, and have too short of a lifespan. In other words, you are a little stumped …

Black workers at Tesla’s Fremont, Calif. factory were relegated to difficult physical jobs such as scrubbing floors on their hands and knees, a lawsuit alleges. (Noah Berger/ Associated Press)

By Margot Roosevelt, Russ Mitchell, The Los Angeles Times

Warning: This story quotes several racist slurs allegedly directed at Black workers at Tesla’s California plant, according to a lawsuit filed against the company.

The N-word and other racist slurs were hurled daily at Black …

Employees work on the assembly line of an EV factory in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, China. The price of lithium has skyrocketed over the past year and is predicted by some to keep rising. Photograph: VCG/ Getty Images

By Royce Kurmelovs, The Guardian

Lithium prices have “gone ballistic” as surging electric vehicles sales worldwide create massive demand for the critical component of lithium-ion batteries.

According to figures from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (BMI), the price of the …

The Prony Resources nickel mine processing plant in Goro, New Caledonia.

Nickel is vital to electric car batteries, but extracting it is dirty and destructive. A plant with a turbulent history in New Caledonia is about to become an experiment in sustainable mining.

By Hannah Beech, The New York Times

Photographs by Adam Dean

GORO, New Caledonia — From the reef-fringed coast of New Caledonia, the Coral Sea stretches into the South Pacific. Slender native …

Submitted to NYA by Mary Appletree

Photo: Zunum Aero/ Handout via Reuters

Rough air ahead.

By Michael J. Coren, Climate and emerging industries editor

For $140,000, you can fly your own electric airplane. The Slovenian company Pipistrel sells the Alpha Electro, the first electric aircraft certified as airworthy by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2018. It’s a welterweight at just 811 pounds (368 kilograms), powered by a 21 kWh battery pack—about one-fifth the power …

The Tesla plant in Grünheide, Germany, is at least six months behind schedule, according to local officials. Credit: Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times

Elon Musk wanted to tap German engineering expertise, but may have gotten more local culture than he had bargained for.

By Christopher F. Schuetze and Jack Ewing, The New York Times

GRÜNHEIDE, Germany — The vast pale gray factory with its own exit on the autobahn, surrounded by a pine …

Photos, L/R
1- A ChargePoint station in Berkeley, Calif. The company sells chargers to businesses and collects fees for the software to manage the stations.
2- Most E.V. drivers today charge their vehicles at home and only occasionally use charging stations when they are taking longer trips.
3- Volta sells both power and advertising on large screens attached to its stations.
4-EVgo, another company, primarily makes money by selling electricity to drivers.
Credit: Kelsey McClellan …

By Seth Weintraub , Electrek.com

GM Friday afternoon announced it would expand its Bolt recall to ALL Chevy Bolts including ones manufactured in the US and including the 2022 EV and EUVs. It looks like LG is being thrown under the bus here.

GM has changed its tone on the recall press releases, now putting the blame squarely on the battery supplier.

General Motors is voluntarily expanding the current Chevrolet Bolt EV recall to cover …

In this Dec. 21, 2020 file photo, a Chevrolet Bolt charges at an Electrify America site outside Colorado Mills outlet mall in downtown Lakewood, Colo. Electrify America, an electric vehicle charging network funded with money paid by Volkswagen as punishment for its emissions cheating scandal, says it plans to more than double its number of charging stations throughout the United States and Canada. The expansion will include 1,800 fast-charging stations and 10,000 individual chargers by …

Featuring: Kaitlyn Murphy, equity investment analyst; Wenjie Ge, equity investment analyst; Chris Buchbinder, equity portfolio manager, capitalgroup.com

Ladies and gentlemen, start your batteries.

Sure, we’ve been hearing about the advent of the electric car for a long time. But evidence is mounting that it has already arrived — ahead of schedule.

Consider this: General Motors announced in January that it will stop manufacturing gas- powered cars by 2035, a dramatic shift underscored by a comical …

China's largest fuel retailer has stripped a Shanghai filling station of its pumps and underground gasoline tanks, replacing them with BYD battery packs and high-power chargers, according to reporting by electrek.co. The site on Huqingping Road is the first to open under a cooperation framework the two companies signed in June. Chargers are rated up to 1,500 kW on a single connector, but the station draws only around 100 kW from the grid, because stacks …

By: Tim Levin

People who drive electric cars like the driving feel and comfort more than those who drive gas, diesel, and hybrid vehicles.

New-vehicle owners are happier overall with their cars than they were last year, but people who bought EVs have the biggest smiles on their faces. That's according to JD Power's 2026 Automotive Performance, Execution, and Layout (APEAL) study, which gauges "owners' emotional attachment and level of excitement with their new vehicle."

…

By NYA Staff

For decades, the consumer tech industry has operated under the rule that adding more features to a product makes it better. We see it in smartphones that ship with dozens of pre-installed apps you can’t delete, smart refrigerators and washers that require software updates to work, and televisions that spy on our viewing habits to serve us ads.

Somewhere along the way, tech companies stopped building basic products that worked like tools …

Right now, it’s like a dream, being in this car again, rolling down the road. We still have a ways to go, getting her back where she was before Covid hit when she was stranded by a failed inverter on a grade outside of Pescadero California, pulling onto Pacific Coast Highway 1. She went into the shop then and we went into quarantine for months. Everything ground to a halt. It took a while to …

Lincvolt is home and now I’m driving her every day. Just got back from Lookout, where we discussed new dates being added to the World tour itinerary. She ran perfectly on the way home. What a great feeling to have her back! I’ll keep you posted.

We recently added new bulbs to headlights, brighter and less power consuming, but they are definitely not mellow like her originals. More on that is coming. Her E-brake will …

After a significant service and maintenance, Lincvolt is finally coming home. I’ll be so happy to get behind the wheel again, riding with my friends and family in this a series hybrid, batteries recharging while underway by way of her cellulosic ethanol fueled generator. With her great response and torque, Lincvolt is a joy to drive!

Insulation has been replaced and rebuilt around the windows and top to provide a tight, dry experience in bad …

When we were recording the ‘Monsanto Years’ in 2015, I met Haskell Wexler, the legendary film maker and ace cameraman/interviewer. He came out to the sessions and shot Promise of the Real and I recording our first album together. We were just getting to know one another. You can view some of that in ‘The Monsanto Years’. We were recording in Teatro, an old Oxnard Theater.

Haskell came in and just started shooting, talking to …

We are sharing this ‘work in progress’ with you now. Our series about the story of Lincvolt, beginning with Episode 1, from the day we started our journey.. Larry Johnson and myself travel to Wichita to get a 1959 Lincoln electrified. It’s the first of five episodes. Enjoy!

We continue sharing this ‘work in progress’ with you. Our series about the story of Lincvolt is an unfolding journey!

Larry Johnson and I travel arrive in Wichita to get a 1959 Continental electrified. Come along for the ride . . . . the second of five episodes.

We continue sharing this ‘work in progress’ with you. Our series about the story of Lincvolt is an unfolding journey!

This episode shows you a lot of the roadblocks we encountered on our journey of inexperience, hope and dedication!

Larry Johnson and I travelled arrive in Wichita to get a 1959 Continental electrified. We learned a lot. Come along for the ride . . . . the third of the five episodes.

Episode #4

Episode #5

Improvements to the Inverter, cabling, and more are close to complete, as Lincvolt, an electric powered 59 Lincoln with an ethanol generator, is getting ready for the road. Stay tuned.

Listening to Marvin Gaye and other great Motown acts; listening to James Brown, how can anyone doubt that black lives matter? I am a listener who loves listening to music in my car. I used to check every new album out by driving around with it blasting. That was mostly back in the day of analog playback and it sounded so great. Now when I listen in a car, it’s just no good compared to …

Visiting with Nils Lofgren and his wife Amy, I saw Clive a few years back on a Lincvolt trip across the USA.

Clive may have been my all time favorite writer. His ‘Dirk Pitt’ series was a gift for all of us. I loved Clive. He passed away just recently and I wanted to thank him and his wife for their hospitality and graciousness in Scottsdale Arizona.

Neil, Nils and Clive. Photo: Amy Lofgren

Long …

Cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues Think ahead, think sunliquid

A shortage of fossil resources, energy security, climate change, environmental protection – these are the issues concerning us today in the energy sector. Alternative sources of energy must be found to reduce our dependence on oil and nowhere is this more evident than in the transport sector. In the European Union, the US and other major economic areas, politicians have laid down basic frameworks to promote …

This year I have resolved to try to kick fossil fuels. In Greta Thunberg and many other young people like her I have seen the dedication of young people trying to save their home for future generations. It is now past time for everyone to act, doing all they can. I am fortunate enough to have an electric car, Lincvolt, and for back-up I am going to use a bio-diesel car whenever Lincvolt is being …

You have been getting messages here from ‘The Passenger.’ I think you should know the original passenger, Larry Johnson, was my friend and co-traveller in Lincvolt from the beginning. The very beginning.

We planned the movie and the trip to Wichita, the website for Lincvolt, which had live streams and blog interactivity during our early runs. We had a great time and it lasted for many years up until Larry’s untimely death, years back.

…

October 20, 2019

I Know You Are But
What Am I?

This one's going to be short and sharp at one end.

Sticks and stones and schoolyard taunts. That's what we've got here masquerading as adult behaviour in the most important election ever held in Canada.

What a massive hollow pit of nothingness it has become. No issues, no vision, no guts, no glory - just a pile of innuendo and invective slurs thrown from …

By Vijay Pattni, TopGear.com

A British engineering company has announced it intends to take classic, high-end luxury cars from the 1950s and 1960s and future-proof their existence using the medium of electricity.

The company is called Lunaz – named after founder David Lorenz’s daughter Luna, for which this quote perhaps best sums it all up. “For my daughter not to have access to a car like the Mercedes-Benz 190SL when she is of driving age …

Cruising along at about 65-70 mph, Lincvolt, 'Mary' is a very clean quiet machine, except for the wind rippling in her top! These are her specs as built 80,000 miles ago

GO CLEAN - - GO FAR
The world's first full sized luxury series hybrid electric car powered by biomass

MPG VS. EMISSIONS:
Lincvolt focuses on ultra-low carbon emissions as value, not MPG.

LINCVOLT AND CHARGING
Onboard charging is accomplished by generating electricity in and …

Now, it’s an obvious idea that we need to dump fossil fuels; leave them in the ground. From the Lincvolt log, here is the mission we had five years into the project, outlined as we started the second generation:

Vision
Our goal is to inspire a generation by creating a clean automobile propulsion technology that serves the needs of the 21st Century and delivers performance that is a reflection of the driver's spirit. By creating …

Traveling to the mountains with my lovely wife, we just passed the 80,000 mile mark! This is based on the Lincvolt speedometer reset to 0 when we installed the current power train, generator and battery pack.

About 7 years ago, after a fire destroyed most of the car and we started over, we have logged 80 thousand miles on electric power! 55-MPG in a 1959 Lincoln!.

It happened just last week on a trip from …

This Official LincVolt Years out take is a great demonstration of why some scenes make the cut and some don't.

The setting: the streets of Wichita. The driver has returned to Kansas to test the fledgling LincVolt's brand new suspension system installation and the tweaks that have smoothed out the performance of the all-new electric drive train.

Things are going beautifully until the 26 second mark when the gauntlet is thrown.

"You got yer pink …

The weight of winter is lifting. It's been a long one. But Sun's climbing the skyscape and today is bright and beautiful here at Shakey Pictures North HQ. Makes me want to go for a drive.

I love the open road. Out there where memories flow and scenes shift and everything dances across the windshield like a movie.

This Official ‘The LincVolt Years’ out-take comes to you from the open road. It is one of …

LV08

I just flipped over the day page here on the big infinity board at Shakey Pictures North HQ. It's love day. A whole day dedicated to pondering love. Cool.

One day seems dreadfully inadequate for a subject so complex but that's what we've got so let's dig in.

Love makes you feel so good. Love makes you feel so bad. Love fills you and empties you all at once and it definitely makes the …

LV 07

Fathers and sons: a most delicate dynamic. More complex than it seems to those who are neither sons nor fathers. I have six boys. I get it. Sometimes.

There’s a deep rich father/son vein running through the heart of The LincVolt Years series, a timeless flow.

The Young Bros – Zeke and Ben – are integral to the whole journey. Zeke knows as much about the science and systems of LincVolt as anyone …

LV 06

I embrace you last day of the year. Now in these final ticks of ’18 I can feel the exhaust fumes swirling around the very foundation at Shakey Pictures North HQ. And it gives me no comfort, no sense of solidarity, no idea how to internalize the dark power of this feeling, no idea how to turn it positive. I can’t wait to flip this calendar page.

The news that one of our …

LV05

Re rocks. Latin. Means again, as in redo or remake or rethink. Also means back, as in reflect, return, reimagine. Re is a state all of us are in some of the time and some of us are in all of the time.
There’s a lotta re in The Lincvolt Years – coming soon – so you’ll get a chance to see what I mean when the series arrives.

My state of re shows …

LV 04

Lincvolt left Wichita in the spring of ’09 on a big shake down cruise. The whole story is documented in The Lincvolt Years: Volume One – coming to a screen near you pretty soon.

Stop number two on that journey of reckoning was Perrone Robotics in Virginia. That’s where Lincvolt’s onboard intelligence system was designed, tested and monitored.

Paul Perrone is a vital veteran member of the Lincvolt Team and a pioneer in …

LV 3

all pics: L.A. Johnson

LincVolt's zygote, a '59 Lincoln Continental Mark IV powered with a gas gulping 429 cubic inch Ford V-8, left San Francisco in September  of 2007. George W. Bush was the President of the United States of America. War raged from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean for reasons I am unable to comprehend. War’s way, way bigger now - still don’t get it.

At the wheel sat …

LV 2
A few months back, I returned to Shakey Pictures North HQ, a transcontinental journey to Zuma Beach, California. The object of the journey was to attend a director's screening of Volume 1 of The LincVolt Years. We'd be watching all five one-hour episodes with the executive producers. I was pretty nervous.

The Driver picked me up down on the beach at precisely 10:30 a.m. as designated. He was driving LincVolt - top down …

photo: L.A. Johnson

I got out of Calgary at sunrise on January 20,'14, the morning after the Honour The Treaties Tour's final performance. That tour was a real important event on the LincVolt storyline. One we'll get to in due time.

It turned out to be almost 2 years after Calgary  before I saw Lincvolt again. She looked great. Everything The Driver had ever imagined and then some. Her systems were way …

By NYA Staff

A recent New York Times analysis shows that the conflict involving Iran has widened one of the biggest economic advantages of electric vehicles: the cost of fueling them.

According to data cited by the Times, the average U.S. gasoline price climbed from less than $3 per gallon in January to a peak of about $4.50 per gallon in May following concerns about disruptions to global oil supplies. Although prices have since retreated …

By Peter Johnson

BYD Denza Z9 GT deliveries surpass the 10,000 mark

After unveiling the new Denza Z9 GT in March, BYD’s luxury sub-brand claimed it was the “world’s longest pure electric driving range electric vehicle.”

Thanks to BYD’s new 122 kWh Blade Battery 2.0, the Denza Z9 GT offers an impressive driving range of up to 1,036 km under CLTC conditions.

It’s among the first vehicles equipped with its breakthrough Flash Charging tech. With …

Andrew J. Hawkins

The automaker’s EV skunkworks team is using ‘bounties’ to guide engineering decisions that track gains in battery range and reductions in cost.

To say that Ford has struggled to make profitable electric vehicles would be an understatement. The company recently pulled the plug on its F-150 Lightning, a truck once heralded as the most important EV ever made, after taking a staggering $19.5 billion hit on its EV investments in 2025. A …

By Farah Stockman and Rebecca F. Elliott

Foreign manufacturers were already dealing with tariffs and the end of E.V. tax credits. Now, they face greater scrutiny of their workers’ immigration status.

The immigration raid last week on an electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia owned by two South Korean manufacturers was yet another setback for what had been a fast-growing industry in the United States.

The sector was already beleaguered by lower-than-expected demand for electric …

Guardian staff and agencies

State says it would challenge president’s resolution, setting up a battle over California’s environmental measures

Donald Trump has blocked California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, signing a resolution on Thursday to stymie the state’s ambitious attempt to tackle the climate crisis by pivoting to greener vehicles.

The state quickly announced it was challenging the move in court, with California’s attorney general holding a news conference …

1950 Ford Planet Saver

In this era of Climate Change, caused by fossil fuel
usage, a 1950 Ford will be outfitted with a system
to eliminate 90% of its gasoline emissions.

We will keep you posted.

Sönke Iwersen and Michael Verfürden

Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops on the highway – have led to questions about the safety of the brand. Why won’t Tesla give any answers?

It was a Monday afternoon in June 2023 when Rita Meier, 45, joined us for a video …

By Melissa Eddy

Drivers in the country, Europe’s largest car market, are avoiding vehicles from Tesla, which has seen a drop in sales in other countries as well.

Tesla sales in Germany dropped in May for the fifth month in a row, as demand for the electric vehicle maker continued to slide across much of Europe, despite Elon Musk’s efforts to turn his focus away from his U.S. government activities and back to his companies.

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By Abhirup Roy

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 (Reuters) - Motorists have traded in a record number of Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab electric vehicles this month, Edmunds data showed, amid a wave of protests against CEO Elon Musk's work as an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Tesla cars from model year 2017 or newer accounted for 1.4% of all the vehicles traded in until March 15, up from 0.4% in March last year, according …

By Adam Lashinsky

The world’s biggest carmakers are in disarray over their plans to produce electric vehicles. From Ford to General Motors to Mercedes, one car company after another has announced delays, cancellations and billion-dollar write-downs due to their sputtering EV efforts. These are industrial giants that built their brands on internal-combustion engines, only to see their market values dwarfed by EV market leader Tesla. Now they are being humbled alongside their upstart rival by …

By Lisa Friedman

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are preparing an unusual legislative maneuver in an effort to eliminate one of the country’s most ambitious climate policies, an order that was designed to shift the auto industry toward electric cars.

They plan to vote to overturn a California ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered cars in that state by 2035. To do it, they intend to use the Congressional Review Act, a …

By Peter Eavis

President Trump’s policies could threaten many big green energy projects in the coming years, but his election has already dealt a big blow to an ambitious California effort to replace thousands of diesel-fueled trucks with battery-powered semis.

The California plan, which has been closely watched by other states and countries, was meant to take a big leap forward last year, with a requirement that some of the more than 30,000 trucks that …

By Shannon Najmabadi and Trisha Thadani

Video footage and other data collected by Tesla helped law enforcement quickly piece together how a Cybertruck came to explode outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day.

The trove of digital evidence also served as a high-profile demonstration of how much data modern cars collect about their drivers and those around them.

Data privacy experts say the investigation — which has determined that the …

By Zachary Shahan

Something interesting has been going on with Tesla Cybertrucks. Tesla has been quietly replacing their battery packs, seemingly a lot of them.

At least since September, Tesla has been swapping out Cybertruck battery packs for new ones when they are brought in for other maintenance issues.

The first report we’re aware of is from September 24. Tesla Cybertruck owner Matt Albers wrote:

“Anybody know what this means? I brought the CT in …

By Eve Peyser

It was the last week of October, with the election fast approaching, and business was booming for Matthew Hiller. His Etsy shop was receiving hundreds of orders per day. He was preparing to leave for vacation in France, and was hoping that while he was away Elon Musk wouldn’t do anything “particularly crazy.”

It may seem strange, but every time Mr. Musk, the Tesla chief executive, causes a stir, Mr. Hiller has …

By Katharine Viner

California could offer state tax rebates for electric vehicle (EV) purchases if the incoming Trump administration eliminates the federal EV tax credit, the state’s governor said on Monday.

Gavin Newsom will propose creating a new version of the state’s successful Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, which was phased out in 2023 after funding 594,000 cars and saving 456m gallons of fuel, the governor’s office said in a statement.

Money for the new rebate …

By Melissa Eddy and Liz Alderman

China’s ambitions to become a force in the European car market were on full display this week at the Paris Motor Show, where a record number of the country’s automakers unveiled cutting-edge electric models despite a recent European Union decision to impose anti-subsidy tariffs on their vehicles.

At the event, designed to showcase Europe’s top automakers, the displays that drew some of the biggest crowds were those from the …

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Designers at Korean car company Hyundai have built the Heritage Series Grandeur, a modernized, all-electric version of its 1980s saloon car.

The carmaker kept the first generation Grandeur’s original boxy shape while adding features such as pixel-style LED headlights and taillights.

“We’re celebrating the 35th anniversary of our 1986 Hyundai Grandeur flagship sedan with an electrifying retro concept. With an electric powertrain and all-new light and sound features, the Heritage Series Grandeur will seduce …

By Joseph Bernstein

If a car can embody the age that created it, the Tesla Cybertruck is, fittingly, a culture war on wheels.

When Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, unveiled it at a presentation in Los Angeles five years ago, he seemed to know this hulking wedge of stainless steel would be polarizing.

“It’s not going to be for everyone,” he said at the time.

Since the electric behemoth started rolling off the …

The leading Chinese electric vehicle company, with origins as a battery maker, has posted two years of million-car growth in sales.

By Keith Bradsher

Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times

China’s BYD was a battery manufacturer trying its hand at building cars when it showed off its newest model in 2007. American executives at the Guangzhou auto show gaped at the car’s uneven purple paint job and the poor fit of its doors.

“They …

Tesla fanatics were more than displeased that an organization known for prompting vehicle recalls blasted the truck as “dangerous”

By Miles Klee, Rolling Stone

Only a select few people who pre-ordered Tesla's long-delayed Cybertruck have received one so far -- it helps to be Jay Leno, apparently -- but fans of the futuristic vehicle have already convinced themselves it's a flawless product, and another triumph for Elon Musk. And they're just a tad defensive when …

It took a decade to sell the first million EVs but just a year to reach the third million.

BMW’s i7 can go 321 miles on a charge and runs buyers $105,700. Photographer: Fabian Kirchbauer/BMW

By Tom Randall, Bloomberg

Electric cars are smashing all kinds of records in the US.

Their share of new cars exceeded 7% for the first half of the year, speeding past a critical tipping point for mass adoption. In the …

By Andrew Evers, CNBC

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Interest in electric vehicles is at an all-time high, with sales of new EVs up 55% in 2022 compared with the year prior.

A burgeoning industry is breathing new life, and power, into internal combustion vehicles by converting them to electric.

Both the shops and aftermarket community are growing substantially to meet the new demand.

Interest in electric vehicles is at an all-time high, with sales of new EVs …

By Charles Lane, The Washington Post

Toyota chief executive Akio Toyoda onstage at the Tokyo Auto Salon on Jan. 13 in Chiba near Tokyo. (Eugene Hoshiko / AP)

You can’t fight city hall. And you really can’t fight the White House, Congress, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and governments of various U.S. states and European countries — much less all of them combined.

Or so one would conclude based on Akio Toyoda’s Jan. 26 announcement that …

Agency says it can spend billions to buy 66,000 new electric vehicles and related infrastructure now that its finances are in better shape

By Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, joined by senior Biden administration officials, unveils the plan for electric vehicles. (Jacob Bogage / TWP)

The U.S. Postal Service will buy 66,000 vehicles to build one of the largest electric fleets in the nation, Biden administration officials announced Tuesday, turning to …

The United States Postal Service could lead by example with its new fleet of delivery trucks. What’s standing in the way?

By Ronald Brownstein, TheAtlantic.com

Judging by the ads during last weekend’s Super Bowl, electric vehicles are poised to imminently dislodge gasoline-powered cars and trucks from their privileged place on America’s roadways.

An escalating dispute among President Joe Biden’s administration, congressional Democrats, and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over modernizing the Postal Service’s vehicle …

Fast-charging stations for electric vehicles are seen in Union Station in Washington. The Biden administration laid out plans Thursday for a $5 billion network of electric vehicle chargers. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP)

By Ian Duncan, The Washington Post

The Biden administration laid out plans Thursday for a $5 billion network of electric vehicle chargers along interstate highways, aiming to boost confidence in battery-powered cars by ensuring drivers can always find somewhere to plug in.

The money, included …

In an image taken from video, vehicles are seen stranded as Virginia authorities worked to reopen an icy stretch of Interstate 95 near Garrisonville, Va., on Jan. 4. (ABC/WJLA via Reuters)

By Charles Lane, The Washington Post

Sometime after 3 a.m. Tuesday, as an epic 48-mile winter traffic jam on Interstate 95 in Virginia dragged on, a long-haul trucker from Canada heard a knock at the door of his cab. It was one of the …

On the production line. Photographer: Ian Forsyth/ Bloomberg

By Anjani Trivedi, bloomberg.com

As a shortage for electric car batteries looms, one thing has become increasingly clear: Outside China, the powerpack supply chain is scattered and incomplete. Technologies are at various stages, there’s money backing a host of different materials across a broad array of geographies and production processes, and scale is limited. But no one has been connecting the dots. There’s a SPAC for …

The Rivian R1T (left) is a sporty pickup truck designed for off-road adventures. The Lucid Air (right) is a luxury sedan aiming to seduce buyers away from the Mercedes S-Class. They're both produced by new electric start-ups that have attracted a lot of investments. (Elliot Ross/ Courtesy of Rivian/ Courtesy of Lucid Motors)

Rivian and Lucid aren't household names. But, somehow, these two electric startups are each worth more than Ford.

By Camila Domonoske, wgbh.org

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A coal car receives a load of lignite coal at BNI Coal's Center Mine. Once loaded, the car transports the coal to the adjacent Milton R. Young coal-fired power plant near Center, N.D. (Dan Koeck for The Washington Post)

By Will Englund

CENTER, N.D. — Disdain for electric cars runs deep in this state. In the Bakken oil fields, which have brought enormous riches to North Dakota, workers fume at them on Facebook discussion groups, …

Cable cars now serve neighborhoods in Bogota, Colombia, that previously relied on dirty, slow diesel buses. Credit: Federico Rios for The New York Times

Urban transportation is central to the effort to slow climate change. It can’t be done by just switching to electric cars. Several cities are starting to electrify mass transit.

By Somini Sengupta, The New York Times

Ms. Sengupta and a team of journalists from The Times reported from Colombia, Germany, Norway …

LG Chem's battery cells can now be found in vehicles from Audi, Chevrolet (most notably the Volt), Ford, Hyundai, Renault, Smart, Volkswagen, Volvo, and others. Both AESC and Panasonic have produced a higher total energy capacity for electric-car batteries than has LG Chem, thus far. According to General Motors, the LG battery cell is responsible for the huge Bolt recall.

Lincvolt is repowering to become fully electric, with a 250 + mile range, eliminate …

by Rebecca Bertram

Proponents of a global energy transition often claim that it is a completely renewable and clean project. True, renewable energy resources, such as solar, wind and geothermal are abundant, but the metals used for the production of the technologies are not. Take copper for example: it is a vital – yet limited – resource that has been largely absent from energy transition debates. Rebecca Bertram has a closer look.

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An interview with Ford CEO Jim Farley, who was very supportive of Lincvolt in the beginning days-

Let’s start with the news: you just announced the new electric F-150 Lightning, you brought back kind of a legendary Ford street truck name. It is very aggressively priced. I’m looking at the numbers: it’s just a hair under $40,000, and that’s before tax credits.

We avoided the $39,999 price. (Laughs) I don’t know how our marketing people …

QuantumScape says its technology is ready to move from the lab to VW’s dealerships. But this secretive startup is very familiar with failure.

By Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg Green and Hyperdrive

The future of batteries, sought for decades by academics, startups, and corporate R&D armies is—quite possibly—just a slender sheet of ceramic material that’s supple enough to bend between two fingers. But no one outside of a Silicon Valley startup is allowed to know what it’s …

An electric Chevrolet Bolt charging up in Baker, Calif. General Motors announced this week that it would phase out the internal combustion engine by 2035. Credit: Philip Cheung for The New York Times

By Neal E. Boudette and Coral Davenport, New York Times

A new president took office this month determined to fight climate change. Wall Street investors think Tesla is worth more than General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen and Ford put together. And China, the …

By Morgan Korn, ABC

The all-electric Bollinger B2 truck starts at $125,000 and is hand-built in Detroit. Credit: Bollinger Motors

Robert Bollinger had big plans for his B1 and B2 electric trucks before COVID-19 changed the world.

The 53-year-old former beauty executive was finalizing plans for a national tour to show off his boxy, utilitarian $125,000 vehicles to truck loyalists before the pandemic struck. The road show was canceled but the work did not stop: …