Enlarge / US Senator Joe Manchin likes the coal industry, doesn’t like electric vehicles. (credit: J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/Getty Images) Senator Joe Manchin called federal tax credits for electric vehicles “ludicrous” in a Senate hearing on Thursday. The West Virginian politician, who continues to make millions from the coal industry, has been a regular critic of […]
Enlarge / America loves pickup trucks too much to give up burning gasoline, Nissan thinks. (credit: Nissan) Nissan is the latest automaker to pull the plug on its internal combustion engine development. Well, mostly. According to Nikkei Asia , the Japanese automaker has looked at the likely next set of European emissions rules and has […]
Enlarge / America is a land of contrasts. (credit: stellalevi/Getty Images) William Gibson’s quote about the future being here, just not very evenly distributed, is a cliché at this point. But I was reminded of it this morning when I saw a new report on electric vehicle accessibility. Compiled by the Consumer Choice Center (CCC), […]
Enlarge / Berlin, Germany – October 21, 2020: Electric vehicles on a public parking space on a street. (credit: Getty Images) 2020 actually wasn’t a bad year in terms of global electric vehicle adoption. More than 3.2 million plug-in hybrid and battery EVs found new homes—a 43 percent increase year on year, despite the worst […]