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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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/…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

[caption id="attachment_18825" align="alignnone" width="300"] Photo: Andrew Seltz / Pexels[/caption] 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.…

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…

By Phil Baker - NYA 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 .…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

By Phil Baker - NYA 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,…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

1950 Ford Planet SaverIn this era of Climate Change, caused by fossil fuelusage, a 1950 Ford will be outfitted with a systemto 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…

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…

From the Seattle based group @troublemakerscommunity Tesla Regret Syndrome. See your doctor if symptoms do not go away within two weeks. NYA Thanks silversurfermodel3!

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

@insidehistory 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…

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…

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…

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 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…

By Andrew Evers, CNBC Andrew Evers 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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…