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A Tesla electric vehicle caught fire while parked inside a garage that was flooded with saltwater from Hurricane Helene in Florida, prompting officials to issue warnings to EV owners in storm-affected areas.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated that building eight electric vehicle charging stations so far under the Inflation Reduction Act’s $7.5 billion investment in electric vehicle charging stations is “on track.” Because most construction

A new car safety study has proven that electric vehicles (EVs) are too heavy to be restrained by guardrails that line roads in case of accidents, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said.

Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, and the Democrats in D.C. have done nothing to slow China’s power, and they haven’t missed an opportunity to enable China’s rise.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it took the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish the flames sparked from an electric Tesla Semi crash.

Faraday Future, the struggling electric vehicle startup, has announced significant salary increases and bonuses for its CEO and founder despite the company’s lackluster performance and ongoing financial struggles. The company has only delivered 13 EVs in a decade.

President Joe Biden’s United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai announced increased U.S. tariffs on China, initially imposed by former President Donald Trump. The tariff increases come even as Vice President Kamala Harris attacks the use of tariffs on the presidential campaign trail.

The conservative government of Giorgia Meloni in Italy has called on the EU to scrap its green agenda scheme to ban the sale of new combustion engine vehicles by 2035.

Not even campaign aides are sure of what Vice President Kamala Harris’s policy positions are, Axios reported Friday.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign raised more than $300 million in August, more than twice that raised by former President Donald Trump’s campaign.

Sweden-based Volvo Cars is abandoning its plans to sell only electric vehicles (EVs) by the end of the decade, executives announced.

Vice President Kamala Harris refuses to answer why her presidential campaign claimed that she “does not support” EV mandates.

Toyota is recalling more than 43,000 of its Sequoia hybrid SUVs due to worries about a part falling off and causing a wreck.

Car makers across the UK are rationing sales of petrol and hybrid vehicles to sidestep punitive net zero fines, one of the country’s biggest dealership chains has claimed.

Ford has decided to back off some of its “woke” policies due to activist and filmmaker Robby Starbuck’s investigation into the issue.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN News Central, Savannah, GA, Mayor Van Johnson, who is in a nonpartisan position, but is a Democrat, said that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris flipping positions on a border wall and an electric

Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign now claims she “does not support” Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates after years of supporting such mandates as a Senator and in her role in President Joe Biden’s administration.

Multiple electric trucks were damaged on Saturday night when flames erupted at electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian’s plant in Normal, Illinois, authorities said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is sending a team of investigators to examine a crash and subsequent battery fire involving a Tesla semi-truck on a California freeway, focusing on the fire risks posed by electric vehicle batteries.

A Tesla semi-truck’s battery pack caught fire on California’s Interstate 80 near Emigrant Gap in the Sierra Nevada mountains this week, prompting a hazardous materials response and causing a full closure of the freeway for more than half a day. California firefighters resorted to airdropping fire retardant on the Tesla truck, a technique normally reserved for forest fires.

Ford Motor Company is delaying production of an all-electric pickup truck at its Electric Vehicle (EV) plant in Stanton, Tennessee, while canceling plans to produce an all-electric SUV. 

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain used his speech at the Democrat National Convention (DNC) this week to portray Vice President Kamala Harris as “a fighter for the working class.” Harris’s green energy agenda, though, paints a different picture — one that risks millions of American auto jobs and millions more jobs in supporting industries. 

Cubans in Havana are increasingly resorting to using Chinese electric motorbikes, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday, as the decrepit “classic” vehicles tourists fawn over become increasingly less reliable and the Communist Party fails to keep gasoline and diesel fuel stocked.

Mercedes-Benz and BMW have reportedly disclosed the names of their electric vehicle battery suppliers in South Korea, following a recent EV explosion that triggered widespread revolt against electric vehicles.

Vice President Kamala Harris promised Friday that she would build 3 million new homes in four years if she were elected, but she and President Joe Biden barely managed to build eight EV charging stations in two-and-a-half years.

According to a recent report from ChargerHelp, unreliable public charging infrastructure and inaccurate information on charger uptime have become two of the biggest barriers to the electric vehicle (EV) transition in the United States.

To attempt to address the growing issue of ill-mannered electric vehicle owners hogging fast chargers, Electrify America is experimenting with a strict limit at 10 of its busiest charging stations in California.

American automakers, as well as those based in Europe and other regions in Asia, are in a dire situation in China as sales have plummeted.

Washington State authorities have confirmed that a Tesla operating on Elon Musk’s “Full Self Driving” system was involved in a fatal crash with a motorcyclist.

United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain, representing about 370,000 of the nation’s auto workers, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president. The endorsement comes even as Harris has pioneered Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates to fully eliminate the sale of gas-powered cars in the United States, a policy that risks millions of American auto jobs. 

An overwhelming majority of voters oppose electric vehicle mandates but think Kamala Harris supports them, per a Harvard-Harris poll.

Dismal electric car sales have reportedly forced German car parts giant ZF Friedrichshafen AG to cut jobs. The layoffs are in response to “the changes in the mobility sector, particularly in the field of electromobility.”

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrived in Beijing on Saturday for a five-day visit intended to “relaunch” relations between Italy and China.

A lithium battery fire on California’s I-15 left drivers stranded for hours in the blazing heat on Saturday.

Vice President Kamala Harris, seeking the Democrat nomination for president, recently lobbied to eliminate gas-powered cars by 2035 — transitioning fully to electric vehicles (EVs) — despite the impact on millions of American auto jobs.

German luxury carmaker Porsche is slowing its transition to mostly electric vehicles because it will apparently take longer than planned.