Hi,
Lee Goldberg's hard-hitting, just the facts ma'am (if obscure, it's a quote from the Dragnet TV Show), piece on EVs (linked below) hit at about the same time as news came in about the federal fuel economy mandates getting slashed rather severely by the Trump Administration.
Motivated by Lee's article, I decided to dig a little deeper on what was behind it all, and the pieces of the story coming together in my blog, below, has now become, "Who Killed the Electric Car - AGAIN?"
No spoilers, but as a hint the initials are G and M.
I pulled an all-nighter writing it, which then created ripple in my timeline to where this newsletter is going out a bit later in the day than usual.
We're interested in our readerrs' take on each of these articles, so put on your helmet, be brave, give them a read, and leave comments that fill in the blanks, that challange the allegations and facts, or that simply state your opinion or prognosis.
The EV market in North America has been severely broken in a bizarre game of checkers, while government leaders in the rest of the world play chess with mobility to where "we" just saw global gas cars sales drop below 50% market share - for the first time since the 1920s.
enjoy,
-andyT
