Earlier this year, a 20 page anti-EV report was released by a group called “Clarendon Communications”. The mainstream media said “seems legit”, and ran with a bogus story that EVs only produce less emissions than gas cars after 50,000 miles. They claimed making batteries produces such a huge amount of emissions that it takes years […]
Wow, who could have seen this one coming? GM is backing away from an agreement to take a stake in electric automaker Nikola Corp., marking the collapse of a deal that has been problematic since it was announced just two months ago. Nikola shares fell nearly 25% on Monday. TechCrunch After the Hindenburg report, Jonny […]
Tesmanian has the scoop: The China-made Tesla Model Y has received a sales permit and has been included in the list of new energy vehicle models exempt from purchase tax. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has included the domestic Model Y in the list of new energy vehicle models exempt from vehicle purchase tax, […]
Nothing is worse than when you need to use a charger, only to find that it’s being blocked by a gas car looking for an easy parking space. New rules in Victoria, Australia hope to change that: Drivers who block electric vehicle chargers in Victoria will be fined under new road rules. Non-electric vehicles, or […]
When Trump became President of the United States in 2017, the government suddenly became less excited about transitioning the country to electric vehicles quickly. Trump always liked coal, not renewable power. Well now it looks like we’ve got a new administration coming into the White House in January (assuming they can get the current President […]
Before you start to take the Supercharger network for granted, check out this story from a couple in Kent, England who decided to take their beautiful new Porsche Taycan (a $200,000+ sports car) on a 130 mile drive: A couple from Kent have described how it took them more than nine hours to drive 130 […]
From JATO: 2020 has been a turbulent year for the car market globally, and particularly in Europe. Although car registrations dropped by 29% during the first nine months of the year – to 8.54 million units –there are clear signs that Europe is all set for an electric revolution. In fact, according to JATO’s figures […]
Kevin Crowley, David Wethe, and Sheela Tobben have an interesting story out on Bloomberg this weekend about how the pandemic has killed U.S. shale oil producers and consolidated control of global oil markets in the hands of OPEC: “In the future, certainly we believe OPEC will be the swing producer — really, totally in control of […]
This is quoted from The Atlantic.
Mike Wayland at CNBC brings us some truly shocking news: JPMorgan is “skeptical” about Nikola finalizing a deal with General Motors to produce an electric pickup truck called the Badger for the embattled vehicle start-up. CNBC Gee, I wonder what could have happened to give them doubts about the Badger. Maybe they saw Nikola’s CEO on Mad Money. Instead, […]
