Daily Archive: June 14, 2025

The following is a long reader comment published this week in response to an article about Elon Musk’s political activities and expectations. It includes brilliant insights and deserves extra attention here as a standalone “letter to the editor.” Enjoy. By eveee Tesla leadership is not just about political naïveté. Elon ... [continued]

Nepal has achieved remarkable EV adoption, using indigenous hydroelectric power and smart taxation, offering policy insights for countries worldwide.

For the past few weeks — or months — we’ve been covering the risks of Congress and Donald Trump repealing the the Clean Manufacturing Tax Credits from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. In the past week, now that a Republican House bill repealing them has been passed to the ... [continued]

Puerto Rico has been treated like an unwanted stepchild ever since it became a territory or the United States a decade ago.

New enhanced geothermal energy systems are emerging on the US power generation profile, with data centers and the US DoD among key markets.

The latest outrage from the EPA is a plan to eliminate all restrictions on power plant emissions in another gift to billionaires.

The Chinese EV price war has gotten a lot of digital ink lately. And for good reason — Chinese automakers have dramatically cut prices on its EVs in recent weeks, and this is just the latest in many rounds of such price cuts/price wars/price battles that have been a fairly ... [continued]

Toyota has been one of the slowest legacy automakers to seriously start the transition to fully electric vehicles. That’s weird since Toyota led the way with hybrids, but it also makes sense for that reason — leaders of a tech transition are often laggards in the next one, as they ... [continued]

I just reported on the Xpeng G7 launching in China. One element of the highly attractive and competitive looking G7 is that it uses Xpeng’s new Turing AI chip, moving on from Nvidia’s Orin X chip. According to the Financial Times, Xpeng founder, chairman, and CEO He Xiaopeng, Volkswagen will ... [continued]