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 […]
Well, another tough week for Tesla and the law. Federal regulators are expanding their investigation into crashes involving Autopilot and a judge in California shoots down an attempt by the automaker to stop a racial bias suit. President Joe Biden’s climate accomplishments have fallen […]
If only it were just gas prices that were rising! Unfortunately, at the moment when more people than ever want to ditch gas, EV prices are rising significantly too. But bucking the trend, GM is lowering the price on the Chevy Bolt in […]
As the EU takes aim at Russian oil, European leaders are bracing for the economic toll that increased gas prices will take on their own citizens. Germany has responded with a radical three-month reduction in prices for public transit that some hope remains […]
A lot of Elon news this week, obviously. The revelation of a sexual harassment settlement paid on behalf of the Tesla CEO is the latest in a series of potential distractions spooking investors. And, the same week that the feds launch another […]
