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Ford EV Sales Drop In USA, But Not As Bad As I Expected
Ford has had the most dramatic pullback in its electric vehicle plans, ambitions, and investments this year in response to US policy on electric vehicle changing under Republicans. We have written all about that, but if you missed it, head here, here, here, and here. With that context behind us, ... [continued]
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AI & Its Discontents — Part Three
AI is pushing its way into every corner of daily life, especially sports and education. Few people are aware of its most negative aspects.
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Enormous Chevrolet EV Sales Drop in 4th Quarter
GM is on a golden road to the future with Cadillac, whose EV sales were still strong in the 4th quarter despite the loss of the $7,500 US EV tax credit. Cadillac buyers now see EVs as the top tech, the smoother drive, the quietest power. Cadillac EVs have the ... [continued]
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Why The Sudden Emergence Of Sodium-Ion Batteries?
There are many questions about what is happening with sodium-ion batteries today. For example, to most people, news that CATL expects to commercialize sodium-ion batteries for EVs in 2026 with 310 mile range comes as quite a surprise. Background There are several different sodium-ion battery cathodes, just as there are ... [continued]
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China’s Chips Manhattan Project And The Semiconductor Skills Race
China’s covert effort to build an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) system, described as a Manhattan Project and leveraging Chinese nationals with experience from key Dutch EUV manufacturer ASML, is not interesting because it appeared suddenly or because it surprised intelligence agencies. It is interesting because it exposed how industrial capability ... [continued]
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Volkswagen EV Sales — Mixed Results in USA
It’s finally time to see what happened to various electric vehicles in the United States after the loss of the $7,500 EV tax credit, and we’re getting basically every kind of thing under the sun. Cadillac EV sales actually rose year over year in the 4th quarter. Kia EV sales ... [continued]
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Cadillac EV Sales Actually Up Year Over Year In 4th Quarter!
Cadillac did it. Despite the $7,500 US EV tax credit ending at the end of the 3rd quarter, leading to a rush of EV purchases before October and then a big dropoff in sales after that, Cadillac actually sold more electric vehicles in the 4th quarter of 2025 than in ... [continued]
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Nissan’s US Electric Vehicle Sales Absolutely Crash
A couple days ago, I wrote about Kia’s electric vehicle sales dropping more than 50% in December. That wasn’t a great result, but more or less what was expected. The question is more about how much they rebound in 2026. I expected to see similar results from other automakers, but ... [continued]
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Crude Oil Prices Down In 2025 Due To Oversupply
I don’t know if this was coordinated in any way with the Venezuela drama, but it’s an interesting piece to come out from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) at this time. The agency just published the following report: “Crude oil prices fell in 2025 amid oversupply.” The most popular ... [continued]
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It’s Official: The All-Electric Toyota C-HR EV Really Is Coming To The US
In normal times, the launch of a new electric vehicle into the US market would be, well, just another EV launch. After all, drivers in search of a zero-emission ride can already pick from more than 100 models available in the US, including plug-in hybrids as well as 100% battery-operated ... [continued]
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Will The Tesla Cybercab Be Another Cybertruck Disaster?
Tesla will start production of the Cybercab later this year in what will be the first real world test of its full self driving software.
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World’s 1st Production Solid-State Battery!
A small company in Finland, Donutlabs, has announced the world’s first production solid-state battery. The batteries are rated at 400 Wh/kg. Verge Motorcycles has incorporated Donutlabs’ true solid-state battery (SSB) into its motorcycles, the TS Pro and TS Ultra, creating motorcycles with up to 600 km (360 miles) of range ... [continued]
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Spain Starts New €355 Million Renewable Energy Manufacturing Program
The Spanish government is going down the route a bit that President Biden and Democrats went down. It is subsidizing the manufacturing of various renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, to the tune of €355 million. “The new call for funding proposals is inviting equipment makers from the following categories ... [continued]
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100,000 Mangrove Trees Planted In One Day?
Often a question title has a “no” response that follows in the article body. In this case, it is “yes.” Tom Chi recently gave an impressive TED Talk about replanting mangrove trees with drones. He says four people using drones and mangrove seeds can plant over 100,000 mangrove trees in ... [continued]
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Tata Power Commissions 1.4-Gigawatt Solar Farm Just Before Year End
Tata Power commissioned a 1.4-gigawatt (GW) solar power plant in Rajasthan, India, just before the end of the year. The INR 54.9 billion ($611 million) project is actually the largest solar power plant Tata Power has ever built. Approximately 2.454 TWh of electricity are expected to be produced each year ... [continued]
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