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Key Points The European Union on Friday voted to adopt definitive tariffs on China-made battery electric vehicles (BEVs). “Today, the European Commission’s proposal to impose definitive countervailing duties on imports of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) from China has obtained the necessary support from EU Member States for the adoption of tariffs,” the EU said in …
Electric vehicles that have been flooded with salt water are being treated as a potential fire hazard in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Officials are urging those who evacuated and left electric vehicles or golf carts in garages or under buildings to report them if they cannot safely access or move the vehicles. Salt water …
Organizations that manage, coordinate and monitor electricity service for 156 million Americans across 30 states are warning that the Biden-Harris administration’s power plant rule will be catastrophic for the nation’s grid. Four regional trade organizations (RTO), as they’re called, recently filed an amicus brief, also known as a friend of the court brief, in support …
Lawmakers are claiming the Biden-Harris administration’s billion dollar clean bus project is promoting reliance on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a new scathing report that details the taxpayer-funded price tag for the energy initiative. The Biden administration authorized the Clean School Bus Program in 2021, which appropriated $5 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency …
The operator of one of the world’s busiest seaports changed its entire landscape to handle its “precious cargo” of imported electric vehicles from China, including “constructing a dozen wind turbines on the quayside; on-site battery recharging options; quality control and a ruthless hunt for the slightest defect to deliver ready-to-use cars to customers.” Only to …
🚨🇺🇸TRUMP: THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE WILL BE GONE WHEN I GET INTO OFFICE “Repealing every job-killing regulation of the Biden-Harris administration is a priority, including the electric vehicle mandate. There will be no forced transition to all-electric cars and trucks.… https://t.co/skNMj8TGXA pic.twitter.com/0cRgJvy34J — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 19, 2024
Remember that time Kamala discovered how electric vehicles work? 🤣🤣🤣 She thinks she's pumping electricity like she's pumping gas… Has there ever been a dumber candidate? 🤦♂️🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/v0t3JDGOnA — Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 8, 2024
Electric bike battery explodes inside elevator.pic.twitter.com/4EQO7Acycv — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 28, 2024 If you think it's safe just taking your ebike battery inside to be charged, and leaving the bike out, think again pic.twitter.com/g01vj37eLG — The opinionated Black woman ~ Aunty (@Theblackfemini3) July 29, 2024
BREAKING: “Climate change activists” attack a Tesla Center in Hamburg, Germany and vandalize electric vehicles Make it make sense… CC @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/42TwaDnw40 — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 13, 2024
GRAVITY UNVEILS DEAP TREES TO CHARGE ANY ELECTRIC VEHICLE Gravity, an infrastructure startup for electric vehicles, has released DEAP Trees, a series of chargers with mounting and cable systems planted on the streets and curbsides so EV owners can fully charge their vehicles in 5 to 13 minutes while they’re on the road. They developed …
Mercedes-Benz Group AG is scaling back its electric vehicle ambitions due to weakening sales, opting for combustion engines instead. In contrast, the Canadian federal and Ontario provincial governments are granting $5 billion in subsidies and tax credits to Honda for its $15 billion electric vehicle manufacturing project in Alliston, Ontario, highlighting the intersection of union …
by Stephen Green Elon Musk issues brutal email to Tesla staff as he goes ‘absolutely hardcore’ and fires two senior executives, his entire Supercharger team, and moves to lay off hundreds more employees. The Tesla boss, who sat down with Chinese premier Li Qiang on Sunday promising an imminent roll-out of driverless cars in the …
Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported a $1.3 billion loss, amounting to a $132,000 loss per electric vehicle sold during the first three months of the year The company saw a 20% decrease in sales volume and, because of low demand for electric vehicles across the industry, was forced to slash the prices of its electric …
Boston Dynamics unveils new electric humanoid Atlas. Atlas lies motionless in a prone position atop interlocking gym mats. The only soundtrack is the whirring of an electric motor. It’s not quiet, exactly, but it’s nothing compared to the hydraulic jerks of its ancestors. As the camera pans around the robot’s back, its legs bend at …
They knew what was coming. Iran is about to stop oil shipments from the middle east. Soon the only choice will be electric vehicles or Public Transportation. Now you know why they’ve been pushing this so much recently. AC
DETROIT – Ford Motor is delaying production of a new all-electric large SUV and pickup truck, as it shifts to offer hybrid options across its entire North American lineup by 2030. The Detroit automaker on Thursday said it will continue to invest in EVs, but it is postponing production of the three-row SUV at a …
Bentley Motors is pushing back its plans to transition to all-electric vehicles by a couple of years amid changes in market conditions and a delay in its first EV. CEO Adrian Hallmark said the carmaker remains committed to carbon neutrality and exclusively offering EVs, but it now plans to continue offering plug-in hybrids past 2030. …
The acronym E.D., which I have long referred to as Electile Dysfunction – the inability to overcome any number of voting-related irregularities needed to elect good candidates, is more commonly associated with erectile dysfunction, and to be honest, that almost seems like the same problem. Whatever it is, you can’t get it up or …
New York Post (via MSN): Electric vehicles release more toxic particles into the atmosphere and are worse for the environment than their gas-powered counterparts, according to a resurfaced study. The study, published by emissions data firm Emission Analytics, was released in 2022 but has attracted a wave of attention this week after being cited in …
Apple will wind down its team working on electric cars, called Special Projects Group, according to Bloomberg. The news signals an end to Apple’s secretive effort to build a car to rival Tesla . The program employed thousands of employees but never fit with Apple’s core business of electronics and online services, and raised questions …
by confoundedinterest17 Burn on, Bidenomics! The Biden administration is reportedly considering easing tailpipe emissions regulations, a move that was designed to force Americans from gas and diesel-powered vehicles to electric vehicles, according to The New York Times, citing three people familiar with the plan. This potential policy adjustment is in response to concerns from major automakers and …
France’s President Macron had a plan to make millions of electric vehicles a year. Chancellor Scholz planned to put 15 million on Germany’s roads by 2030. President Biden trumped the lot with a $174bn (£138bn) plan to make the US the world leader. Even Boris Johnson – remember him – had a £1bn plan to …
Volvo Car said it won’t provide further funding to Polestar, the electric-car maker it created with Volvo’s Chinese owner Geely—the latest EV retrenchment by the global auto industry. The auto industry’s pivot to electric vehicles has been rocked by setbacks this year, just as a flood of new battery-powered models is hitting showrooms. Earlier this …
STOCKHOLM—Volvo Car said it won’t provide further funding to Polestar, the electric-car maker it created with Volvo’s Chinese owner Geely—the latest EV retrenchment by the global auto industry. The auto industry’s pivot to electric vehicles has been rocked by setbacks this year, just as a flood of new battery-powered models is hitting showrooms. Earlier this …
They are saving the environment mind you… via dailymail: An electric bus has caught fire in London just days after two sparked panic in the capital after they also went up in flames. Videos posted on social media show flames engulfing a vehicle inside a bus garage in Putney yesterday. Firefighters from the London Fire …
by confoundedinterest17 Al Gore, former Clinton VP and Senator from Tennessee, has made millions of dollars from his hysterical film about global warning called “An Inconvenient Truth.” For that, Gore (undeservedly) won a Nobel Prize. Then again, Obama won a Nobel Prize for Peace then proceeded bombing people. You can’t make this stuff up. Well, …
Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, on average, than gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs, according to the latest survey by Consumer Reports, which found that EVs from the 2021 through 2023 model years encountered nearly 80% more problems than did vehicles propelled by internal combustion engines. Consumer Reports said EV owners most frequently reported …
by Chris Black There’s a new drug on the street called Xylazine/Tranq and it’s even more f**ked up than fent. It’s a mixture of fentanyl and xylazine. Xylazine isn’t a recreational drug on its own, it’s an alpha-blocker that lowers your blood pressure. But mixed with fentanyl it acts as potentiator and it prolongs the …
EV batteries are not an efficient store of energy. This is represented in their massive loss of value after so many years of ownership. EV car waste is > virtue signaling EV owners — Peter Spina ⚒ GoldSeek | SilverSeek (@goldseek) January 10, 2024