After eliminating the electric vehicle tax credit, rolling back fuel economy standards and blocking California’s stringent vehicle emissions rules, the Trump administration is now citing slowed electric vehicle growth as its rationale for loosening automobile air pollution standards. In a rulemaking proposal released Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to delay the…
Yes, after I publish this, we’re going to get people jumping into the comments and complaining about us praising or promoting Chinese automakers and the Chinese government. But this is just about reality. The world is changing, fast, and in the auto world, things look set for some massive transitions. ... [continued]
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The report outlined various paths for the auto industry, ranging from an increase in its unit volume to two million by 2040 or seeing assembly plants shutter by the same year.
The EU recently made moves to properly check the safety of US pick-up trucks. Now the car industry is calling ‘daddy’ Trump for help. When a three tonne Ram pick-up collides with a VW Polo, the American truck always comes out on top. Europe’s auto lobby is working hard to ... [continued]
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Trade Chief Maroš Šefčovič is in Paris for an eleventh-hour attempt to talk Washington out of a 25% tariff hike on European vehicles.
Washington accuses Brussels of breaching a trade deal and risking a renewed transatlantic trade conflict.
The cars on display at the New York City International Auto Show, which opened to the public at the end of last week, have a lot in common. There are rows of souped-up trucks with fearsome grills, and SUVs that all seem to feature the same smooth lines and sleek, narrow headlights. Casual visitors might even have a hard time differentiating between several of the new models automakers debuted at…
This is the second of three articles seeking to contextualise the failure of the West to grasp or even understand or manifest technological change over the past 15 years. The touchstone used here, and in our previous article, is “New Energy Vehicles” (plugin vehicles). The first article focussed primarily on ... [continued]
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Born from one government decree, the People's Car is now slowly succumbing to another government decree.
But weakening carmakers’ next target in 2030 is likely to delay EVs reaching price parity with combustion vehicles. The average price of an electric car in the EU has fallen for the first time since 2020, driven by the release of more affordable models to comply with the bloc’s car ... [continued]
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With the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast. The first impact of this deregulatory detonation will be on cars. The EPA packaged its withdrawal of the 17-year-old endangerment finding with […]
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—New car sales in Venezuela have grown by more than 120% over the course