In discussions over whether it's "fair" that China subsidized the EV industry (~$200B), saving lives and leading it to dominate the global car market, one should spare a moment to think whether it would have been more appropriate for China to spend $300B on losing a three month war of choice instead

Attempts to balance the entire Highway Trust Fund on the back of EVs is not "making them pay their fair share," it's yet another giveaway to the dirty cars that are killing you. But since EVs are only 2% of the install base, it's politically convenient to target them.

Musk just suggested that autonomous Cybertrucks could be used to ship goods around cities. Perhaps he needs a little help from this childhood toy to figure out why that's not a great idea.

EU reducing its EV targets is a dumb idea, no matter how minor the change. Automakers are celebrating this and media is calling it a win for them, but it is in fact a loss: all it does is ensure China will be more dominant in the inevitable move towards electrification.

Listening in on a conference call and the *first* media question starts "With EV demand softening..." which is, of course, not true. These are supposed to be the people informing you of things, and they can't bother to look up one number over the course of several years to find out theyre wrong.

I'm so tired of reading these false headlines for 2 years now. 2 new lies from Nikkei Asia this week (re: Toyota/Subaru pausing EV plans due to "slowing demand," when demand is in fact still rising) broke the camel's back, so I rewrote this article, once again, in the hope they'll all stop lying.

During the Tesla shareholder meeting, a questioner said all the people in the room are "Tesla soldiers... I mean Elon Musk soldiers," then asked about how it is to run Tesla as a public company. In response, Musk called shareholders "parasites." They cheered.

I don't think "no CEO on earth that would accept this package" is the ringing endorsement you think it is, Kimbal. (yes, this is the actual screenshot quality from Tesla's SEC filing. No, I'm not going to twitter to take a better one)

More American jobs killed and sent to China by republicans

Elon Musk says Optimus will 'be an incredible surgeon' and 'imagine if everyone has access to an incredible surgeon' Feel like having a nazi tell you that everyone will have a robot that can cut you open in their house isnt quite the utopia Elon thinks it is.

The deeper you look into Musk's proposed $1 trillion stock award, the more ridiculous it gets

After I wrote this, Tesla, which does not have a PR department and does not pay for advertising, retained a "stakeholder strategy firm" who emailed me to "set the record straight" and attack shareholders concerned about having their shares diluted for a bad CEO and captured board. Weird stuff.

Tesla, a company that doesn't buy ads, is paying for ads to shill a $1T award for its bad CEO. Some ads attach his award to Tesla employees' ability to own a home, or host a quinceañera for their daughter. The last seems particularly exploitative, given Musk's constant white supremacist statements.

@tobysaunders94.bsky.social Your "121 random fun facts that will blow your mind" includes uncontextualized anti-wind disinformation. It is wrong to mention bird fatalities without mentioning the literal millions more bids killed by fossil fuels. Thus, wind saves bird lives in comparison. Please fix

@tomhowarth.bsky.social Your "121 random fun facts that will blow your mind" includes uncontextualized anti-wind disinformation. It is wrong to mention bird fatalities without mentioning the literal millions more bids killed by fossil fuels. Thus, wind saves bird lives in comparison. Please fix.

@hurwitz.bsky.social A correction for your recent ebike article. EV brakes do not "produce more microplastic," because EVs barely use their brakes. In fact, EVs produce far less total tire and brake dust than gas cars do (slightly more tire, much less brake - and brake is more dangerous than tire)

@mrmattsimon.bsky.social A correction for your recent ebike article. EV brakes do not "produce more microplastic," because EVs barely use their brakes. In fact, EVs produce far less total tire and brake dust than gas cars do (slightly more tire, much less brake - and brake more dangerous than tire)

I find this story developing north of the border fascinating, wherein right-wing Canadian provinces are begging for cheap Chinese EVs because of a dispute over... cooking oil.

Fun fact: Despite America being the reason for Int'l Labor Day (May1) existing, which commemorates the Haymarket Massacre where Chicago police shot on labor demonstrators, US Labor Day is in Sept because US is so scared of socialism that it invented a fake holiday on May1 instead ("Loyalty Day")

@katieglass.bsky.social Hello! I see your article about veganism which notes uncritically the dairy-industry misinformation that almond milk is exceptionally bad for the environment In fact, you should target dairy milk! It is worse in all ways, including water use, than almond milk is. Data here!

Rory Sutherland: "Nobody would buy a petrol car if EVS came first"

Happy with the response to this article. Go leave a comment to the EPA if you think the plan to delete science in order to raise your fuel/health costs to pad oil industry profits is a bad one. (also hilarious to see people say I'm wrong here - the 76c/gal number comes from *your* guy, republicans)

Some readers have taken issue with my characterization of ICE's "papers, please" actions in LA as "nazi-like." I mentioned them to explain why the Tesla Diner, owned by a white supremacist, might not be popular in the city where ICE's illegal actions are happening. What do you think, Bluesky?

Chief Saboteur of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, just announced his intent to raise fuel prices by $.76/gal, to benefit the oil industry who gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to get him into his current position.

republicans signed the death warrant for the US auto industry this week, with the passage of a bill that kills 2 million US EV jobs. They won't kill EVs as a whole, which will continue to grow, but they will harm this country's manufacturing base, and benefit China. electrek.co/2025/05/24/r...

Republicans have voted to send 2 million US jobs to China, and to inflate your fuel, energy and healthcare costs. electrek.co/2025/07/03/s...

I'm not a self-driving luddite, I actually quite like autonomous vehicle tech. And there are positives to be taken from Tesla's launch. But the growing library of errors in just a few days is troubling - especially with the cars operating in a regulatory vacuum.

On the issue of "police declare an unlawful assembly," some might try to recall one of the reasons this country exists in the first place en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Ac...

Pick a side! I pick neither!

Republicans are trying to kill EVs, and they're not going to succeed. However, what they will do is harm US industry, and surrender the lead we could have had to China - where there is no similar effort to strangle its domestic auto industry.

Republicans scream from the rooftops that they want to kill you, no matter how illegal it is electrek.co/2025/05/22/r...

They've finally done it. They've found the "killer app" of Artificial Intelligence. How did we ever shop for underwear before this?

After I published this, republicans dropped the gas car fee and upped the EV fee to $250, so they now want to tax EVs *infinitely* more than gas cars. Republicans are literal cartoons. These are not serious people. This is what Elon Musk, CEO of the world's (former) largest EV company, paid for.

*automakers, threatened by Chinese EVs advancing rapidly in tech* "I know, let's beg for tariffs, then during the small reprieve we've gained from having to compete with better cars, lets also beg government to let us pollute more and not have to make EVs. That'll help us catch up!"

My first thought when hearing about this was that it was much ado about nothing – probably trump's addled empty headcase getting something wrong, or referring to Musk's planned exit after he gets the job done (whatever that means). Turns out I was right. When will people learn trump is unreliable?

Musk spending $100 million to get trounced in an election? Meg Whitman spent $160 to get trouned in an election 15 whole years ago. What a broke boy.

What I originally thought was sketchy is just a different kind of sketchy - instead of an unconfirmed rumor of a pardon where the only source was Milton himself, now it's a confirmed pardon from criminal to criminal, potentially saving him $676+mil in penalties in exchange for just $1.8mil in bribes

This is a weird one, but I'm pretty sure Trevor Milton's "pardon" claim is just an attempt to drum up interest in a documentary he's about to debut. Either that or trying to incept the idea of a pardon into a fellow convicted felon's empty headcase. Either way, something sketchy here.

I have to say that in every convo I've had with auto industry folks, they universally agree on the stupidity of these tariffs. Yet none of this input from actual professionals is reflected in the national conversation. I don't wanna get too rose-colored, but I feel it didn't used to be like this.

republicans are ideologically in favor of stupidity. It is a primary motivation for the party. It has been this way for some time. Nobody should be surprised that they are trying to dismantle education – the stupider people are, the more controllable they are, and the more republican-voting they are

"Breathing room"? Why is it *always* the polluters who get "breathing room" and not *the actual people with lungs* who will now have to breathe their pollution for three more years?

By backing off on clean-tech manufacturing, the US is ceding ground both to China and Europe. Europe seems readily aware of this, and committed €100B to clean-tech manufacturing and efficiency efforts today.

When you pay an idiot to do idiotic things, surprise, he will do idiotic things electrek.co/2025/02/14/b...

So, if both Apple and Google Maps are now putting incorrect labels on geographic features on purpose, what else are they lying to us about? We have no choice but to stop using either service, because both are officially unreliable. These are informational apps intentionally spreading misinformation.

Idea: Congress should pass a law requiring email address portability between providers. Used to be you couldn't bring your phone number when you changed phone providers, now you can. Nobody would want to go back to the old way. Should do the same for emails, if youre unhappy with your service.

The NEVI program, which is the only reason NACS exists, which could have led Tesla to years or decades of being the major energy provider for transportation in NA, just got killed by elon's own administration. It's truly insane to see someone working so hard to destroy his own company and industry.

Elon says you'll die if you don't get a solar roof, but he's part of an administration that's making it harder to get solar roofs. Does Elon want you to die? electrek.co/2025/01/29/y...

Elon Musk just whined about disparate regulations in EU. This is the guy who has advocated for AfD, a German neo-nazi party that wants to break up the EU, and many other anti-EU parties (who are, coincidentally, also racist like he is) You want disparate regulations? This is how you get 'em $TSLA

Elon Musk says that FSD is currently like a toddler, but that toddlers grow up, and nobody stays a toddler forever. Someone should direct him to the example of Elon Musk, who seems to be direct proof that somoene can indeed stay a toddler forever (or, worse, regress to become more like a toddler).

On his first day in, reality TV contestant Sean Duffy has already promised to raise your fuel costs by potentially thousands of dollars per vehicle. This is the inflation that America voted for. electrek.co/2025/01/29/n...