The scope of the fire risk posed by electric vehicles (EVs) is not well-understood, says a National Research Council of Canada report. “Electric vehicles present a greener solution to internal combustion vehicle engines, however they may pose a different fire hazard due to their propulsion system, the lithium ion battery,” said the report, Literature Review…

Commentary One of the persons with the best insights into what’s going on inside the People’s Republic of China is Winston Sterzel and his YouTube channel. He lived there for 13 years until leaving in 2019 after he received death threats. On June 15, he shared a video of a massive field of electric cars…

The House is no longer “Waiting for Goffman,” a top Environmental Protection Agency official who appeared before Congress on June 21 after declining to show up to a similar May 17 hearing. In both cases, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability wanted the Office of Air and Radiation’s Joseph Goffman to discuss his agency’s…

Tesla won a contract with the state of Texas among a series of victories that will likely pave the way in making the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s charging technology the dominant standard for powering electric vehicles in the United States. Texas announced on June 20 that it would require EV charging companies to include both…

President Donald Trump says he’ll end Democrats’ electric vehicle (EV) policies on day one if reelected. During a June 10 rally in Atlanta, Trump derided a series of Democrat policies offering tax handouts and other incentives for relatively novel EVs. “That certainly will be ending on day one,” Trump said to a round of applause…

Victorians will soon pay more for electric cars after the state government revealed plans to scrap its $3000 (US$1,999) subsidy for zero-emission vehicles almost one year earlier than planned. The cost-cutting measure revealed on a government website will put the state behind Queensland, New South Wales (NSW), South Australia and Western Australia in electric vehicle…

Ford’s F-150 Lightning, the battery-powered version of the most beloved pickup truck on American market, suffers from the same problem all electric vehicles do—it loses a significant amount of range when it’s hauling heavy cargo. Every truck, regardless of its power source, loses range with more weight added to its bed. This trade-off usually isn’t…

Commentary Before California’s government imposed its zero-carbon by 2035 vehicle mandate, it first should have assured itself a secure market in cobalt. Otherwise, the main beneficiary will be the People’s Republic of China, which dominates the market in cobalt, a key mineral needed for batteries. That’s the conclusion I draw from a new book, “Cobalt…

A former Department of Transportation general counsel under Donald Trump questioned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) absence from a House hearing on the agency’s expansive new tailpipe emissions standards. “I would expect they probably briefed the press about the rule when they published it so that they could get favorable stories in the press, so…

Nearly 75 percent of transport-trucking companies haven’t replaced any of the trucks in their fleets with lower-emission substitutes over the last three years despite an available federal grant that would cover up to 50 percent of the cost for doing so, according to the Department of Natural Resources. Most companies said the biggest barrier was…