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Automotive Press Heaps Praise On Toyota Highlander EV
The new Highlander EV is a big deal for Toyota -- a big three-row SUV built in the US and battery-powered exclusively.
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Solid-State Battery Milestones Appear Encouraging For Near Future
Solid-state batteries for electric vehicles potentially have some significant improvements over lithium-ion and lithium-ion-phosphate batteries. They are less prone to combustion, can charge faster and can provide longer driving ranges. Some progress recently has been made with solid-state batteries: February 5: Karma Automotive agreed with Factorial Energy to launch the first ...
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BYD Passed Up Ford In Global Auto Sales In 2025
This is quite a notable milestone that has gone under the radar! BYD delivered 4.6 million vehicles to customers in 2025. That was actually not a great result for BYD. However, it did mark BYD flying past Tesla in BEV sales, which got a lot of attention. Something that has ... [continued]
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Will Trump’s Assault on Human Health Matter in Texas?
As noted earlier today, Donald Trump is continuously engaging in assaults on US human health due to Trump’s incessant push for fossil fuels and against cleantech. The policies go beyond normal subsidies. Trump and his team are basically forcing the use of old coal power plants. And that will come ... [continued]
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Tesla Down Dramatically in UK, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland
Meanwhile, its sales rose significantly in Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Finland. I hadn’t seen anything about Tesla’s 2026 sales so far, and US sales are impossible to come by at this stage, so I decided to go have a look at how Tesla is doing in various European markets. Using ... [continued]
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Now Anyone Can Join A VPP, With or Without Rooftop Solar
The US startup SOLRITE is opening up a new energy storage opportunity for residential ratepayers to participate in money-saving VPPs, whether or not they have rooftop solar panels.
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Reasons For The Legacy EV Retreat
This started as a response to Zach’s recent article asking “Why Have Automakers Written Off $55 Billion In EV Investments?” Zach encouraged me to flesh it out a little and post it as a followup article. Here are a few reasons why Detroit automakers were able to rack up such ... [continued]
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Donald Trump to Give Coal Industry Another Massive Handout — via Department of Defense
Donald Trump has a handful of clear areas of focus in his second term as president. One of those is to force old, polluting, expensive fossil fuel power plants on the American people. And he’s taking it to new extremes this week. “Based on reporting, today Donald Trump will give ... [continued]
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Sierra Club: Trump’s Latest Environmental Rollbacks Are Yet Another Move To Cut Corners For The Coal And Fossil Fuel Industries
DETROIT, Michigan — This week, the Trump Administration is expected to announce a suite of rollbacks that bolster the coal and fossil fuel industries, threatening to keep our coal plants online longer and make our environment and climate dirtier. The administration is expected to revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding ... [continued]
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8,000 New EV Chargers To Be Installed In Canada
Eight thousand new EV chargers will be installed in Canada at a cost of $84 million. At the moment, Canada has about 35,000 public EV chargers. Canada also supports the transition to zero-emissions vehicles with EV incentives and the country has huge sustainable transition goals, as stated here: “To help ... [continued]
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The Four People At The Center Of The Endangerment Finding Storm In The US
The endangerment finding is about to be removed from official US policy, thanks to the tireless efforts of hard core activists.
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Lucid Is Finishing A Greenfield EV Plant For The Next Phase Of Global Manufacturing
When Lucid Motors announced plans to build its first manufacturing facility outside the United States in 2022, the move was framed as both symbolic and strategic. The plant in King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) would not only become Saudi Arabia’s first car factory, but also a cornerstone of the kingdom’s ... [continued]
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BYD Launches RWD & AWD Atto 3 EVO In Europe First
BYD recently announced the revised Atto 3 EVO in Europe, ahead of its official release in China. While there is no official pricing yet, deliveries are expected soon, with the car already appearing on the website. Cosmetically, the changes are minor, and we have already seen many of them in ... [continued]
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XPENG Isn’t Just Entering ASEAN—It’s Assembling an Operating System
XPENG has aggressively overhauled its Southeast Asian strategy in early 2026, transitioning from a niche importer to a regional powerhouse with localized manufacturing and an integrated infrastructure backbone. Central to this shift is a blueprint established in Indonesia: the integration of world-class ultra-fast charging to eliminate the primary barrier to ... [continued]
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Faraday Future Follows Tesla’s EV Playbook, Only Better
The US startup Faraday Future is positioning its new Super One BEV as a stepping-stone to more affordable EVs, targeting the domestic market among others.
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