The U.S. Senate approves a landmark climate bill that will invest $370 billion in climate programs, including subsidies for clean energy and new tax credits for electric vehicles. The legislation is poised to pass the House and be signed by President […]
The theme of this week’s newsletter: progress is painful. For instance, as it shifts more resources into EVs, Ford is cutting 8,000 jobs tied to internal combustion engines. Lyft may be making a smart decision in ditching the rental car business, but it’s […]
Hopes of Congress taking serious climate action this year are fading, making it very unlikely that America will hit its emissions targets in the coming years. While government fails to act, at least there’s some good news from the private sector: […]
The big news today are the blockbuster revelations from a trove of documents leaked by a former executive at Uber. The executive, Mark MacGann, says that as a lobbyist for the company in Europe he helped peddle falsehoods about the economic […]
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to the ability of federal agencies to reduce carbon emissions from power plants without explicit authorization from Congress. In other words, if people want the EPA to take greater action on climate change, […]
It may be many years, perhaps decades, before autonomous vehicles are the norm, but you can now hail and pay for a driverless ride in San Francisco, and that’s a pretty big deal. Meanwhile, automakers that have been collecting data from drivers […]
The U.S. federal government releases a trove of data on car crashes involving autonomous systems –– but nobody seems to know what to make of it yet. The only thing we know for sure is that Ferrari has no interest in ever making […]
Russia’s war on Ukraine continues to have big implications in the world of mobility. In his state of the union address, President Joe Biden seizes on the supply chain challenges that have been exacerbated by the war to make the case […]
A lot of news from Detroit this week. Ford announces another $10-20 billion investment in EVs, while GM announces a second factory for electric trucks and invests in another battery startup. The White House is fed up with the Post Office’s inaction on electrification and automakers […]
An analysis from Bank of America describes a “tsunami” of new EVs in 2022 that will deliver a powerful jolt to EV adoption among U.S. consumers. While Tesla’s Gigafactory outside of Austin gears up to produce Model Ys, GM announces plans to […]
