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  • Lada Powered By 50 Cordless Drills Is The Only EV Swap That Matters

    02/02/2025 8:43:51 PM PST · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    Jalopnik ^ | January 27, 2025 | Owen Bellwood
    The car of the future? Screenshot: Garage 54 via YouTube Taking an old car and making it run on electricity is so hot right now, with startups the world over popping up with the aim of electrifying everything from old Jaguar E-Types to lovely little Miatas. Now, a rusting Lada has been given the EV upgrade, but instead of cribbing its power from a Tesla or Cascadia Motion, it comes from an unlikely source: cordless drills. Specifically, the battery-powered Lada is motivated by hashing together 50 cordless drills by YouTube channel Garage 54. If that name sounds familiar, that’s because...
  • Faulty Electric Buses Cause Massive Headaches for Multiple School Districts

    02/01/2025 7:46:23 PM PST · by george76 · 24 replies
    Wall Street Journal, ^ | February 1, 2025 | Ben Zeisloft
    Joe Biden tried to bankroll the use of electric school buses at government schools across the country. But as the electric buses continue to have massive reliability issues, some schools regret taking the federal handouts and now want help from the Environmental Protection Agency to get themselves out of the program. ... There are at least six districts reporting massive problems with Lion Electric school buses they bought through the federal program. ... The two electric buses received by Yarmouth Schools have been with the district for a year and a half, but they have only been used a few...
  • Los Angeles fire cleanup complicated by 'unprecedented' number of EVs with combustible lithium-ion batteries

    01/31/2025 5:45:21 AM PST · by george76 · 39 replies
    Fox News ^ | January 30, 2025 | Danielle Wallace
    California wildfire cleanup challenged by electric and hybrid vehicle batteries.. Highly combustible lithium-ion batteries used in electric and hybrid vehicles are complicating cleanup efforts in the Los Angeles neighborhoods ravaged by wildfire damage. Phase 1 of the federal cleanup is underway, as surveyors with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) work to remove and dispose of hazardous materials, including lithium-ion batteries found in charred vehicles and decimated homes. The EPA warned that batteries should be considered "extremely dangerous," even if they are believed to be intact, and "can spontaneously re-ignite, explode, and emit toxic gases and particulates even after the fire...
  • Homes evacuated after electric vehicle catches fire in Ventura County [CA]

    01/25/2025 12:16:03 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 41 replies
    An electric vehicle caught fire in Ojai on Saturday, prompting evacuation and shelter-in-place orders in a nearby residential area. The vehicle, the maker of which not identified, caught fire due to thermal runway, according to the fire department. Thermal runway, a “challenging and hazardous condition,” is a process that occurs when a battery uncontrollably reaches high temperatures incredibly quickly. The department said the safest approach to such a blaze is to let it burn in a controlled environment. Direct extinguishment can exacerbate the fire, authorities said. The orders were expected to last about 3 hours.
  • And Suddenly, Gavin Newsom's Electric Car Mandate Looks Pretty Dumb to LA Fire Victims

    01/18/2025 11:46:17 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 38 replies
    PJ MEDIA ^ | 01/17/2025 | Victoria Taft
    He'll save the inedible bait fish, the weed that no one's ever heard of, elevate meritless executives, and kill the gas car. Those are the highest environmental aspirations of Gavin Newsom, the alleged visionary governor of California, whose distorted priorities have combined to create the conditions for LA Inferno 2025. As the smoke begins to clear, the cruel environy is dawning. Even now, the homeless LA gliteratti, who soon may be allowed to sift through the ashes of their homes in hopes of finding the gold coins that looters haven't dug up yet, wonder how they could have been so...
  • California Ditches ‘Unachievable’ Scheme To Mandate Green Trucks

    01/17/2025 6:28:57 PM PST · by george76 · 35 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | January 15, 2025 | Nick Pope
    California regulators withdrew a proposal to mandate the sale of zero-emissions trucks over the next 20 years on Tuesday evening. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) pulled back its request to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a waiver that would have allowed the state to require massive increases in sales of electric or zero-emissions truck models over the coming decades. As of 2023, only 0.3% of all registered heavy-duty vehicles in the U.S. were zero-emissions models, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation. CARB’s Advanced Clean Fleets rule would have mandated California’s truck fleet to move to zero-emission...
  • Biden EV Road Trip Stunt Was Worse Than First Thought

    01/14/2025 5:18:23 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 40 replies
    Issues & Insights ^ | 14 Jan, 2025 | I & I Editorial Board
    When Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and her staff of clowns bungled a four-day ramble in 2023 to show off the wonder of electric vehicles, the lasting impression would be the report of her advance team blocking an open charger so she wouldn’t have to wait for one. A federal report, however, reveals details that cast the entire charade in an even worse light. The Granholm tour was to take her from Charlotte, N.C., to Memphis, Tenn., and was intended to justify the billions of taxpayers’ dollars the Biden administration was pouring into green energy initiatives. The message was lost when...
  • Germany Already Rationing Energy…”Avoid Using Electric Appliances Until After 11 A.M.!

    01/05/2025 5:38:35 AM PST · by george76 · 74 replies
    Watts Up With That ^ | January 4, 2025
    Welcome to Germany’s green economic miracle. The year is 2025! Germany’s so-called Energiewende (transition to renewable energies) has had one unmistakable result: Germany now finds itself rapidly nearing the brink of a third world country where the power supply is no longer reliable and brownouts becoming more and more a daily routine. What’s happening is the opposite of what was once promised by the know-it-all climate wisemen: “Green energies would lead to a clean and prosperous country that would be the envy of the world. So much for their fantasies. The reality, as reported yesterday by Germany’s leading daily, Bild...
  • Mazda is selling more cars than ever—all without an EV in sight

    01/03/2025 5:58:09 AM PST · by Red Badger · 97 replies
    Autoblog ^ | January 2, 2025 | Elijah Nicholson-Messmer
    Mazda is defying industry trends with surging sales of its gas-powered SUVs. Can it keep the momentum going without a fully electric vehicle in its lineup? While many automakers are racing toward electrification, Mazda is proving that there’s still room for gas-powered success. The Japanese automaker is set to break its U.S. sales record from 1986, with over 420,000 vehicles expected to be sold in 2024—a 16% increase from the previous year. Mazda’s president of North American operations, Tom Donnelly, credited the popularity of its compact crossovers and mid-size SUVs for this growth, with a target of 450,000 vehicles for...
  • Thinking of buying an EV? You might want to move quickly

    12/25/2024 5:08:28 PM PST · by lasereye · 60 replies
    CNN ^ | December 25, 2024 | Chris Isidore
    The best time to buy an electric vehicle may be right now. That’s because a $7,500 federal tax credit could soon disappear. President-elect Donald Trump has said he will move to eliminate the tax credit, possibly as soon as he takes office. It is even conceivable that the tax credit’s elimination could be made retroactive to the beginning of January, which would give EV buyers only a week left to be certain of locking in the credit. “I would be very inclined to say yes, it’s going away,” said Ivan Drury, director of insights at car buying site Edmunds. While...
  • Hertz Asking EV Renters To Buy Their Cars

    12/24/2024 7:17:02 AM PST · by CFW · 65 replies
    Car Scoops ^ | 12/23/24 | Brad Anderson
    Hertz is culling its portfolio of EVs in response to the sharp depreciation affecting some of its most popular models, including the Tesla Model 3. In what appears to be an aggressive effort to offload these vehicles, the rental giant has begun reaching out directly to customers currently renting them, offering an opportunity to purchase the cars outright on the spot. While we haven’t been able to find an announcement from Hertz directly regarding the scheme, a Reddit user recently shared a screenshot of an email they received from Hertz while renting a 2023 Tesla Model 3. In the email,...
  • California gas car ban getting approval from Biden before he leaves office: Report

    12/14/2024 9:55:01 AM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 30 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | December 13, 2024 | Brady Knox
    President Joe Biden is set to allow California to ban the production of new gas-powered vehicles after 2035. California and 11 other states were awaiting permission for the ambitious measure, which Biden is set to give in one of his final acts during the lame-duck period, two people briefed on the matter told the New York Times. President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly signaled his opposition to the measure, setting up a legal battle for the second administration. One-quarter of vehicles bought in California are electric, the highest in any state, yet still far behind the aimed-for 100% in a decade....
  • Broke California to Spend $1.4 Billion on More EV Charging Stations

    12/13/2024 8:04:49 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 31 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/13/2024 | Joel B Pollack
    The State of California, which is suffering from massive budget deficits, will spend $1.4 billion to expand a network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to assist drivers of the cars that Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to require by 2035. As Breitbart News noted earlier this week, Newsom’s EV mandate is in trouble, with sales falling far below targets. In addition, as the Los Angeles Times reported, Newsom is raising eyebrows by continuing to propose new spending — even though the state is suffering under massive budget deficits, despite lavish coronavirus relief from the federal government under President Joe Biden’s...
  • GM sells stake in Michigan EV battery factory subsidized by state

    12/03/2024 3:42:25 AM PST · by Adder · 32 replies
    Bridge Michigan ^ | 12-2-2024 | Paula Gardner
    General Motors is selling its stake in a large-scale electric vehicle battery factory that company officials once promised would help make Michigan the “epicenter” of the EV industry. The Detroit automaker announced Monday that it has reached a non-binding agreement to sell its share of the nearly completed Ultium Cells LLC battery plant in Delta Township, just west of Lansing. When the deal concludes, the factory will be owned and operated by GM’s joint venture partner in the property, South Korea-based LG Energy Solution.
  • Revolt at Volkswagen: Electric car crisis spreads to Germany as it plans to close factories for the first time in its HISTORY and 66,000 workers go on strike

    12/02/2024 12:06:20 PM PST · by DFG · 106 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/02/2024 | James Reynolds
    Workers at Volkswagen factories across Germany have begun strikes after the manufacturer threatened to close plants amid falling demand and a slower-than-expected transition to electric vehicles. Workers on their morning shifts went on strike for two hours, while those on the evening shift plan to leave work early in protest at the carmaker's demands, which include a 10% wage cut. At Volkswagen's main plant in Wolfsburg, which employs 70,000 people, a two-hour strike means several hundred cars cannot be built, union sources said. In addition to Wolfsburg and Hanover, which employs a further 14,000 staff, plants affected include Zwickau, VW's...
  • 3 Dead in Fiery Cybertruck Crash in Bay Area

    11/27/2024 8:23:16 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    SFGate ^ | Nov 27, 2024 | Stephen Council
    Three occupants of a Tesla Cybertruck were pronounced dead early Wednesday morning after the vehicle crashed and burned in Piedmont, officials said. Another occupant of the car was taken to the hospital with severe injuries, Piedmont Police Chief Jeremy Bowers said during a morning press conference. His department received an iPhone alert from within the vehicle at 3:08 a.m., he said, and officers got to the scene two minutes later and found the Cybertruck covered in flames. Firefighters arrived at 3:16 a.m., he said. The causes of the single-car crash and the three deaths are under investigation at this time,...
  • Auto Execs Beg Trump to Keep Biden's EV Mandates After Spending Billions on Unprofitable Electric Cars

    11/22/2024 5:33:38 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 205 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 22 Nov 2024131 | John Binder
    Executives at Ford Motor Company, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis are begging President-elect Donald Trump to keep in place President Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates. The plea comes as automakers have invested billions in EVs that have failed to turn a profit. In March of this year, Biden issued a federal regulation to begin phasing out gas-powered cars, requiring American automakers to produce EVs and ensure that by 2032, the majority of new cars sold in the U.S. market are electric. Since then, Ford, GM, and Stellantis have staked their futures on EVs. The results have been bleak as...
  • Ford Slashes 4,000+ Jobs in Europe: Cites Weakened EV Sales, Economic Headwinds

    11/20/2024 7:42:15 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/20/2024 | Simon Kent
    The Ford Motor Co. will reduce its workforce by upwards of 4,000 across Europe and the U.K. by the end of 2027, the manufacturer announced Wednesday, citing headwinds generated from the economy, pressure from increased competition and weaker than expected sales of electric vehicles (EVs) for the dim forecast. Most of the job cuts would come in Germany and would be carried out in consultation with employee representatives, AP reports. The company also plans to reduce working time for workers at its Cologne, Germany plant where it makes the Capri and Explorer electric vehicles.
  • ‘Energy-Limited Resources’: Huge Swaths Of America Face Blackout Risks If Winter Is Bitter, Grid Watchdog Warns

    11/16/2024 6:35:33 AM PST · by george76 · 37 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | November 15, 2024 | Owen Klinsky
    Hundreds of millions of Americans risk experiencing power shortages this winter if weather conditions are harsh, according to a new report published by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a power grid watchdog. Nearly all residents of the Northeast, Texas and Midwest could face energy shortfalls in the event of a colder-than-usual winter, the NERC report states. The lack of grid reliability is driven largely by growing electricity demand as well as the replacement of coal-fired and older natural gas-fired generators with energy-limited resources such as solar power. ... “Foreseeable extreme cold temperatures have the potential to push the...
  • Trump's transition team aims to kill Biden EV tax credit

    11/14/2024 6:52:40 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 24 replies
    Reuters ^ | November 14, 2024 | By Jarrett Renshaw, Chris Kirkham and Nora Eckert
    Nov 14 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is planning to kill the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric-vehicle purchases as part of broader tax-reform legislation, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Ending the tax credit could have grave implications for an already stalling U.S. EV transition. And yet representatives of Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab - by far the nation's biggest EV maker - have told a Trump-transition committee they support ending the subsidy, said the two sources, speaking on condition of anonymity.