EV Energy Rationing Lite – “Monetary incentives could guide charging behaviours”

University of Melbourne explaining the velvet glove approach to EV charge time coercion.

Ford Admits Their Risky EV Gamble Hinges on Government Coercion

Who could possibly have predicted that the promises of politicians aren’t worth the paper they are written on?

Sydney Airport EV Fire Destroys 5 Vehicles

Should Electric Vehicles be banned from airports and ferries?

EV Charger RAGE: US Secretary of Energy Convoy Boxes Out a Young Family and Baby

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm’s 4 day EV celebration road trip backfired, after the Sheriff was called by a young family desperate to get their baby home.

Biden-backed electric vehicle company files for bankruptcy

Bay Area-based electric bus and battery maker Proterra filed for Chapter 11, with CEO Gareth Joyce citing “various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to efficiently scale.”

Cobalt Carnage, Child Labor and Ecological Destruction

They labor ten to twelve hours a day in sweltering heat and toxic mud, water and dust, in enormous pits hundreds of feet deep – hacking at rocky walls and…

UK Government Report: The Automobile Industry Does Not Know How to Repair EV Batteries

Even minor accidents often lead to a £14,200 – £29,500 battery write-off.

Volkswagen: “Strong Customer Reluctance” in the Electric Vehicle Sector

Volkswagen is scaling back electric vehicle production, laying off contractors, but internal combustion vehicle production remains unchanged.

Electric Vehicles: Arthur Berman, Pedro Prieto, & Simon Michaux | Reality Roundtable #1

Are current EV initiatives taking a science-based systems approach towards this massive economic, environmental, and cultural shift or are they rooted in energy blindness?

CNN: E-Cruise Liners to Help Hit Net Zero

Sail and wind in place of big diesel engines. What could possibly go wrong?

Biden’s New Emissions Control Standards Prove EVs are a Tough Sell

Team Biden seems done with the carrot approach and is using a regulatory stick to force its all-EV future on Americans.

Ferrari Rejects Green Pressure to Phase Out Internal Combustion Engines

“… I don’t want to be arrogant and impose a choice on our client …”

The Auto Industry in Jonestown

Thus does EPA deviously announce its intention to force manufacturers to make, and consumers to buy, all or almost all electric vehicles.

A Heavy Dose of Reality for Electric-Truck Mandates

It’s not that we can’t overcome challenges, but we don’t overcome them by pretending they don’t exist

Ford F-150 Lightning Spectacular EV Fire

Another EV has joined the ranks of vehicles you probably shouldn’t park close to anything you care about.

Unfit for use? More EV Woes

“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t curse these silly electric cars under my breath once or twice.”

Heavier EV’s not funding California Roadways

Newsom’s silence on how California will finance the billions of dollars for the roads being used by those heavier EV’s is an indication that he will just pass that problem…

Great Car Reset: Biden’s EPA to release strict new fed emissions standard to ‘move U.S. car market decisively toward electric vehicles’ – ‘Up to 2/3’ of cars sold mandated to be EV by 2032

…the only result is going to be shortages of cars and a completely altered used car market. You can look to Cuba to find out what it’s like to have…

Waning Electric Vehicle Demand? Lucid Cuts 1300 Workers

Lucid, a startup which manufactures high end luxury EVs, reports demand has fallen short of expectations.

EU abandons ban of combustion engine cars – Britain needs to follow suit

Net Zero Watch is calling on Rishi Sunak to follow suit and abandon its 2030 ban of the sale of ICE cars.

Germany Rebels Against EU Ban on Petrol Cars

A growing backlash over climate-friendly policies is now hitting the German Greens, putting wobbles into the country’s three-party ruling coalition.

Scottish Couple Plan to Drive “From Pole to Pole” in an Electric Vehicle

They plan to bring a portable wind turbine to charge the vehicle when sunlight is unavailable.

Former FEMA Heads Warn EV Manufacturers are Compromising Safety

AM radios are long range, resilient means for FEMA to communicate federal disaster alerts. But EV manufacturers are removing them, because EV motors generate radio noise which impedes reception.

243 Aussie EVs Deregistered for Not Paying their Road Users Tax

Aussie EV drivers in the state of Victoria are supposed to photograph their mileage for the tax man every year, so they can be charged for using the roads.