June 2025

Last Updated on: 14th June 2025, 04:40 am Toyota has been one of the slowest legacy automakers to seriously start the transition to fully electric vehicles. That’s weird since Toyota led the way with hybrids, but it also makes sense…

Last Updated on: 14th June 2025, 05:13 am The Chinese EV price war has gotten a lot of digital ink lately. And for good reason — Chinese automakers have dramatically cut prices on its EVs in recent weeks, and this is just the latest…

Last Updated on: 14th June 2025, 01:01 am I just reported on the Xpeng G7 launching in China. One element of the highly attractive and competitive looking G7 is that it uses Xpeng’s new Turing AI chip, moving on from Nvidia’s Orin X…

Last Updated on: 14th June 2025, 01:00 am This week, the EPA announced its intention not to protect the environment by rolling back the rules put in place by those hated socialists Barack Obama and Joe Biden that limit emissions…

"GETTING REEs FROM CFA – SOME SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS" by Ashim Kumar Mukherjee This article addresses the urgent need for India to secure Rare Earth Elements (REEs), critical to various industries including automotive and electronics,…

On No Kings Day, it’s important to stand up for the social safety programs we have come to depend on. There’s the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for children and low income folks. Medicare and Medicaid and the Affordable…

As I just covered, repealing clean energy tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act via the current Republican budget bill will hurt jobs and economic progress in numerous Republican-controlled states, and more than a dozen…

About twenty years ago, a very conservative friend of mine had a small get-together for friends. Nearly all of them were also of his political persuasion. I didn’t mind. I was almost there, myself. I had seen something the rest had…

Fawn runs across the road. Three Lakes, Wisconsin. Photo by Fritz Hasler. I’ve been driving with Tesla’s Full Self Driving now for 3.5 years, probably going through 20 different versions. I use it obsessively on the busy roads and…

Steve Hanley wrote an article yesterday about EV sales in China in May. In response, Larry Evans wrote a long, enlightening comment regarding BYD that deserves more attention. Here it is (with only slight editing): By Larry Evans One thing…