The United States Postal Service recently revealed a new set of electric and gas-powered delivery trucks set to replace their current delivery fleet. The design showed off this week drew mixed reactions on social media.
Massachusetts plans on ending the sale of all gas-guzzling vehicles by 2035 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The UK government has formally announced it will ban the sale of combustion-engine vehicles by the year 2030 as part of its “Green Industrial Revolution.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden told an audience at a drive-in rally in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday that he would build electric vehicles — the same promise he made, and broke, during the Obama administration.
Rebecca Mansour joined Dan Proft to explain how Joe Biden’s proposed energy policies could destroy millions of jobs in the automotive industry.
Renewable energy is cripplingly expensive, hopelessly unreliable, massacres wildlife, destroys landscapes, destabilises the grid, harms indigenous peoples, and causes climate change. But apart from that it’s great, says a meticulous review published in the scientific journal Energies by a team of Irish and U.S.-based researchers.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that the state will ban sales of gas-powered vehicles, effective in 2035. Newsom said that the “audacious” goal was necessary to achieve the state’s goal of 100% renewable energy by 2045.
The United Nations (U.N.) announced Sunday the electric car boom will result in a number of devastating ecological side effects for the planet.
General Motors (GM) will invest $2.2 billion to produce electric and self-driving cars at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant in Michigan, the company announced Monday.
Efforts to rein in global warming by eating less meat, driving electric cars, or subsidizing solar energy are completely ineffective, writes a professor at the Copenhagen Business School, and constitute nothing other than “pointless virtue signaling.”
Police forces in the United Kingdom have squandered over a million pounds on electric cars that are incapable of chasing criminals or performing emergency services because the eco-friendly vehicles are too slow and take too long to charge.
The Swedish government, supported by the Centre Party and the Liberals, have announced they will be looking to ban the sale of new cars that use fossil fuels in the next ten years. The proposed ban has been met with
Late last month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) joined the leftist chorus pushing to abandon fossil fuels by proposing replacing all gas-powered vehicles with electric cars by 2040 at a cost of $454 billion over the first ten years.
A Bloomberg Opinion editorial said cities should consider banning all oil and gas-powered cars to help reduce deaths and fight climate change.
Tesla Motors stock fell to a 13-month low after the company announced the recall of about half of all the cars it ever produced Thursday, and after the company suffered a credit rating downgrade.
Volkswagen is creating an all-electric, Nvidia AI-powered version of their retro camper van that includes facial recognition.
China’s bid to dominant technology and manufacturing scored another big win on Tuesday when Ford Motor Company’s chairman announced plans to expand its electric vehicle business in the country because “China will lead the world in E.V. development.”
Another California Democrat is proposing a bill to eliminate gas-powered cars in California by 2040, following China’s lead.
California’s Governor Jerry Brown visited China recently and came home with a radical new idea: banning the internal combustion engine in automobiles sold in what is already the greenest state in the nation.
Would you want to flee a hurricane in a gas-fuelled pick up? Or a battery-powered Tesla? Last week, drivers of the latter got lucky when they were bailed out of disaster courtesy of Tesla’s canny marketing department.
Tesla has remotely upgraded the battery capacity of a number of Tesla cars in Florida in order to help those that may be fleeing Hurricane Irma.
HELSINKI (AP) — Volvo will begin producing electric motors on all its cars from 2019, becoming the first major automaker to forgo traditional engines that rely exclusively on internal combustion.
“Time to stop cars driving climate change,” writes a Member of the European Parliament at HuffPo. Naturally, your assumption will be that the politician responsible for such bilge is either going to be Green or Labour or possibly from one of
No one wants to buy electric cars. Americans bought just 102,600 such vehicles in 2015, a 17 percent decline from the previous year, according to researcher Autodata. Nissan Motor Co. sold 43 percent fewer of its all-electric Leaf and General Motors
We are all forced, at gunpoint, to lavishly subsidize the manufacture and sale of electric cars, which tend to be a boutique product for very rich people. Every step of production and sale is juiced with subsidies. No one is selling electric cars for their actual market price, and even with all that subsidy sugar to help the medicine go down, hardly anyone is interested in buying them. It’s one of the biggest forced transfers of wealth from middle-income taxpayers to rich people ever conceived.
Tesla Motors stock price dropped 10% Tuesday after Consumer Reports published its findings on the reliability of the manufacturer’s Model S electric sedan, giving the car a below average “overall problem rate.”
Denmark is slowly retreating from some of its most ambitious, self-regarding climate initiatives. In an unforeseen attack of common sense, the government is readying to end its generous tax breaks for citizens who buy low-carbon vehicles because of the expense imposed on
In an almost unheard-of action for a Wall Street investment banking firm, UBS downgraded Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA-$267.39) to a “sell”, driving the price of the shares down 5.5 percent, or -15.49.
Despite repeated attempts by green advocates and local government to stir up interest, Britons are less concerned than ever about electric cars. According to a survey by the Department for Transport, 56 per cent of the public have never considered
Following Tesla Motors, Inc.’s (TSLA-NASDAQ) big award of California tax credits for promising to add 4500 jobs, the all-electric automaker just signed a lease to occupy the cavernous 500,000 square feet Solyndra plant at 901 Page Ave. in Fremont, California.
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock price plunged by -7.4% in premarket trading on Thursday after the company announced that deliveries had fallen short, problems had affected production, and a strong dollar had hurt earnings. Those earnings turned out to be a real
Consumer Electronics Show 2015 opened Monday morning in Las Vegas to throngs of the digerati hoping to get a peek at the latest technology trends and styles. Unlike shows in the past that featured connected gadgets and media, this year’s focus seems to be on the automobile as the ultimate connected consumer electronics platform.
On Dec. 26, Tesla previewed its next generation of Sports Roadster that will feature up to a 50% improvement in charge range. Tesla claims that design refinements and a 31% increase in energy storage will allow the Roadster 3.0 to drive easily from San Francisco to Los Angeles on a single charge. Tesla has not set a release date or pricing at this time.
