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Toyota Fails to Respond to Letter from Global Advocacy Organizations by Deadline
GLOBAL — Yesterday was the deadline for global automaker Toyota to respond to the letter sent by advocacy organizations on Nov. 21, urging the automaker to reduce emissions and combat the climate crisis. The letter urges the automaker to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to be in line with Paris Agreement targets, ... [continued]
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Advisory: D.C. Rally to Call Out Trump’s Plan to Dismantle Endangered Species Act
Event at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, December 18, outside Interior Department WASHINGTON, D.C. — Conservation groups including Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity will deliver hundreds of thousands of comments on Thursday, December 18, to the Department of the Interior from people protesting Trump’s plan to dismantle the Endangered Species ... [continued]
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EU 2035 Reversal: Playing for Time Won’t Make European Carmakers Great Again
Extending the sales of combustion engines would divert investment from EVs while China races further ahead. Reversing the EU’s 2035 phase-out of combustion engine sales sends a confusing signal to the European car industry and consumers, T&E has said. Carmakers could continue selling cars with engines, the European Commission proposed ... [continued]
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Waymo Gets Paralyzed By Venice Canal Parade
In what seems to be a weekly edition of “Weird Things Happening with Robotaxis,” a friend of mine sent me the following funny clip of a Waymo robotaxi being stalled for 45 minutes trying to cross a tiny bridge due to a Christmas canal boat parade going under the bridge. ... [continued]
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Ford Cuts Its EV Losses, But Sets Its EV Transition Back
Ford is killing the F-150 Lightning and US E-Transit models. No mention was made of the Mustang Mach E, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up too much. The market responded by increasing its share price. While it is discouraging to those of us supporting clean technology, the move made ... [continued]
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Farley Follies Foil Ford F-150 Lightning Plans
The news about electric vehicles from Ford this week is dire, including taking an enormous loss against earnings this quarter.
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Tesla vs. Waymo Continued, & Elon Musk’s Big 2025 Robotaxi Rollout Miss
I recently wrote about the latest updates to the long-running Tesla vs. Waymo battle. However, I missed some things! Plus, I completely forgot about a pretty wild claim Elon Musk made earlier in the year and therefore missed adding an update on that as part of this discussion. Waymo vs. ... [continued]
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New Nissan LEAF Now In Production In UK
The new Nissan LEAF is one of the most exciting new electric cars I’ve seen introduced in a while. Seemingly trying to reach back into its EV leadership long, long ago, Nissan has developed an updated crossover LEAF that looks like everything a human could want on four wheels at ... [continued]
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Op-Ed: How A $14,000 Electric Kei Car Became Japan’s Best-Selling EV & Saved Nissan
While Tesla and BYD (not in that order) dominate EV headlines globally, Japan’s EV sales success for three consecutive years is a tiny 11-foot-long kei car that costs roughly $14,000 after subsidies and offers just 112 miles of range. The Nissan Sakura has become more than a sales success—it’s arguably ... [continued]
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The EU’s 2035 Target IS The Certainty That The Industry Needs
Some car execs suggest a return to the combustion engine will restore Europe’s competitiveness. They couldn’t be more wrong. By William Todts, Executive Director Henry Ford apparently once said, “if I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” A hundred years on his successor, Ford CEO ... [continued]
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Volkswagen ID. Polo on the Road to Series Production — Reinventing a Bestseller
New entry-level mobility — The ID. Polo is the first of four new Volkswagen electric models in the small car and compact segment, which will be launched from 2026 onwards Wide choice — The ID. Polo will initially be available with three power outputs (85 kW, 99 kW, 155 kW), two battery ... [continued]
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Eurovignette for Ukraine: Truck Tolling to Save Ukrainian Roads & Environment
This report looks into how Ukraine could pilot infrastructure charges, or tolls for trucks based on their impact on the road surface and environment. Tolling trucks is a technical solution to implement the “user” and “polluter pays” principles. Toll revenue could help ease budgetary pressures Ukraine faces and optimise EU funds allocation. If Ukraine ... [continued]
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Full Page Open Letter Calls on Amazon, Google, Meta, & Microsoft to Stop Fueling Climate Change with Data Center Demands
INDIANAPOLIS – A full page open letter in the Sunday papers of the Indianapolis Star calls on the country’s largest technology company CEOs — Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella — to power their data centers with clean energy, or risk failing to meet their own ... [continued]
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XPENG to Begin Local Assembly in Malaysia by Mid-2026
XPENG is expanding into the Southeast Asia region, as it just signed an agreement with Malaysian industrial partner EP Manufacturing Berhad (EPMB) to begin local assembly operations in Malacca, with production scheduled to commence in 2026, the companies announced Thursday. The announcement came after XPENG announced on December 12 that ... [continued]
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A Solar-Powered Christmas: How Sunshine Powers The Philippines’ Largest Malls For More Holiday Cheer
SM Bicutan, one of the many malls under the ShoeMart chain in the Philippines, is along the flight path as my Korean Air flight lands in Manila. I can see the bright Christmas light array from 200 feet up. As millions of Filipino families gather beneath towering Christmas trees illuminated ... [continued]
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