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The White House is announcing another waste of taxpayer dollars today, spending $700M to try to revive a dead energy source, saddling Americans with more pollution and infrastructure that is destined to go unused in short order.

A new poll of US voters shows that the vast majority of Americans want the Environmental Protection Agency to do its job and keep toxic chemicals out of the air and water. But the EPA’s current mission, under Lee Zeldin, is to poison Americans and raise their health and energy costs. When voters learn about this, they show significant concern.

New York state has announced a lawsuit against the Interior Department’s illegal $1 billion payment to an oil company to stop development of a wind farm off the New York Coast.

The project would have saved New Yorkers $10 billion and created 1,700 jobs, which would have conflicted with the Department of the Interior’s goals of raising your energy costs.

SpaceX has a big IPO coming up, but the next step might be a merger of SpaceX and Tesla. And if so, it could be a backdoor to triggering Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar pay package automatically, without having to meet any of the operational milestones, thus diluting everyone’s shares without delivering on the promises that were made.

During a global moment where oil prices are spiking tremendously, a movement to increase gas taxes is brewing in Australia. And if it does succeed, it could provide a template that could help other countries not only fund their own prosperity, but reduce the tremendous damage done by fossil fuels.

For over a decade now, Tesla has sold a promise of vehicles that can drive themselves, even stating that every car it produced had all the hardware for self-driving.

But after years of the company being unable to deliver, some owners want their money back. Ben Gawiser is one of those owners, who recently won a $10,600 judgment due to Tesla’s failure to deliver. But Tesla kept fighting to delay payment, even just a few days at a time.

(5/29 Update, original post 5/2: He finally got his money back. This article has been updated with new information below)

As everything gets less affordable, republicans are proposing big new inspection fees for cheap energy projects, trying to protect their fossil fuel masters from the rise of better options.

The hotly-anticipated Rivian R2 is nearly upon us, and Rivian just gave everyone a single date to focus on: June 9.

Tesla has once again changed the name of its “FSD” system in China, using a more truthful name for the system in the world’s largest auto market.

Tesla is recalling 14,575 Model Y vehicles, produced between November ’25 and April ’26, due to a possible missing certification label.

The Interior Department, which recently used $1 billion in taxpayer funds to bribe a foreign oil company into stopping development of cheap offshore wind in the US, had already decided on the deal before it had fabricated a legal justification for it, according to emails obtained by Congress.

We’re in LA for the world premiere of Mercedes’ upcoming ultra-high performance EV, the AMG GT 4-Door Coupe, with race-ready features and more power than any Mercedes ever released… along with silly fake V8 noises (but at least you can turn them off).

(Update: We got a test ride! Scroll to the bottom of the post)

Xiaomi, a company that makes smartphones and other consumer electronics, sent its second EV around the famously difficult Nürburgring racetrack, and once again set a record with it, beating every other SUV, gas or electric.

(Update: Since this article was poasted, Xiaomi released another even faster lap)

Lawmakers have proposed yet another punitive tax on EVs, attempting to balance road budgets solely on the back of the ~2% of vehicles that are responsible for a vanishingly small percentage of road damage.

Meanwhile, gas taxes haven’t gone up since 1993… and some are trying to eliminate them entirely, during a global fuel shortage that EVs are the solution to.

An 82 year old Congressional representative is getting heat for an embarrassing letter she wrote to a well-meaning 10 year old constituent on the topic of electric cars and climate change, where she seems to brag about saddling his generation with debt through a recent climate rollback she voted for. And she’s up for re-election for the 12th time, by the way.

Gas car sales have collapsed in the world’s largest auto market, dropping 37% year-over-year in April. As a result, 9 of the top 10 vehicles in China last month were plug-ins, with only a single one on the list sporting an ICE-only configuration.

A German Youtuber who focuses on electric trucking content will drive a Mercedes-Benz eActros around the world, becoming the first to circumnavigate the globe in a heavy duty electric truck.

Perhaps you’ve heard the news – automakers across the industry are canceling EV investments, taking tens of billions in losses in response to a claimed lack in customer demand for EVs (even as EV sales in fact continue to rise globally and gas car sales have peaked).

A new analysis by InfluenceMap shows how automakers actually made their own bed, by flip-flopping on their own lobbying efforts and contributing to the regulatory instability that currently plagues an industry with long planning timelines and global competitors that have not hamstrung themselves with such uncertainty.

Ford recently opened a “skunkworks” facility to accelerate EV development in the hopes of catching up with China, whose EV industry is rapidly taking over the globe. We got a chance to look behind the veil and see what they’ve been up to in developing the new “Universal EV.”

EV charger installations funded by the US’ federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program finally started to accelerate in 2025, but were still held back by unnecessary federal roadblocks that slowed Americans’ access to clean transportation options, according to a new report.

Dreame, a Chinese company known for robot vacuums and other home appliances, is back with another electric supercar concept, this time with some actually unbelievable numbers.

Try this one on for size: 0-62mph (0-100km/h) in 0.9 seconds.

It’s that time of year again, time for events across the country to show off electric vehicles at Drive Electric Earth Month. And it couldn’t come at a better time, as gas prices are spiking through the roof worldwide – which EV drivers haven’t had to worry about.

There are millions of Tesla vehicles on the road today which were sold on the promise of full autonomy, but without hardware capable of doing so.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk just proposed the company could build “microfactories” in urban areas in order to upgrade the computers and cameras in those videos, adding high costs for a company that is already running thin on profitability – but we’ll see if it actually happens.

Tesla has released quarterly earnings, and the announcement was accompanied by what seems to be a backpedaling on availability of Robotaxis in 5 of the 8 cities Tesla has announced availability in.