Electronic Design Weekly: Oct. 5, 2026 - U.S. Electric Vehicles
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- Editorial: GM’s EV Blunder Will Cost Taxpayers $477B
- Featured Content
- New Products
- American-made Vehicle Electrification
- Multimedia on ElectronicDesign
- Editor's Choice: From the ElectronicDesign Archives
- Editor's Weekly Picks
- Illustrated Engineering
- Electronic Design Word of the Week
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Editorial: GM’s EV Blunder Will Cost Taxpayers $477B
I'm old enough to remember the smog in the Los Angeles basin, to have flown in airliners where the "smoking section" started one seat behind me (it was just a placard on regular seats, no partition to speak of), and when we stood on the floor of the back-seat area of our family car as dad hit a patch of ice and booped an oncoming car. Yes, we survived it all, but regulations were put in place over all of these decades to benefit our SOCIETY in terms of clean air to breathe, safety, and toward Americans making it to at least my age.
You needn’t have circled the sun as many times as I have to remember the choking smog in Beijing a bit over a decade ago (the lede image for this article is from those times there). So thick, “Don't Wok[sic]" signs on the other side of a pedestrian crossing would be barely visible, and pretty much everyone masked up to go outside.
The Chinese people suffered and their government acted, to benefit their SOCIETY, in first creating the infrastructure and then developing the technologies (battery, wind, solar, EV, high-speed rail) that would clean the air up for everyone a decade later00they’re not going back.
You see, using the atmosphere, one that SOCIETY relies on for life and health, as a zero-cost sewer to dispose of industrial or transportation waste products ain't cool. Heck, even burning agricultural slash as far away as Chiang Mai chokes Bangkok annually with world-leading particulate readings. We also have forest slash burns here on the West Coast, but the lumber industry is somehow sacred.
Everyone assumes the small scale of population that you see in my Inventors cartoon series, below — a half-dozen people don't do a whole lot to impact on a planetary scale. But with 10 billion people these days, and massive-scale drilling, mining, and refining of fossil fuels, we're seeing hundreds of millions of years’ worth of solar energy stored in molecular bonds being released in a couple of hundred years. The combusted, busted up, and remixed molecules produce IR-absorbing CO2. Even worse, though, are nitrogen compounds acting as precursors to the formation of highly reactive ozone, which makes...smog.
The U.S. took a two-pronged approach, with California embracing even cleaner emission specs in that same strategy, because of where they were in the 1970s: Reduce emissions from each kg of fossil fuels burned, and reduce the amount of fuel burned per unit distance by light cars and trucks.
Now, the Super Intelligence in Washington, DC has rolled back the clock, forcing a higher consumption rate of fossil fuels, and declared, with the backing of 3% of scientists that high-CO2 is somehow natural and that fleet average fuel economy can get rolled back a decade. It’s much to the glee of don't-give-a-φµ©κ corporations like General Motors — you know, the American auto company that said, in 2021, that it would be 100% electric by 2035.
More on how GM (and Ford) appear to have completely wrecked America’s economic and clean air future in my blog.
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Globe and video wallEditor's Choice: From the ElectronicDesign Archives
These articles were chosen by the editors at ElectronicDesign that complement the new articles above. They’re included in our regular newsletters.
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The French new car market jumped 11.6% in September, with electric vehicles reaching 42% market share. Link
EV truck maker Windrose just opened up its entire patent portfolio for anyone, anywhere, to irrevocably use: Website
Toshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages — 65TB, 100TB drives on the roadmap for 2030 and beyond. Link
Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla. Link
GM’s EV Slump Is Dragging Down Sales Despite Strong Truck Demand. Link
Click here to see Andy's full list of the latest articles and news.
FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel. Link
Electric Vehicles Outsell Gasoline, Diesel in Europe for First Time. Link
[oopsie...] Improper redaction reveals Lincoln’s Google Data Center water and electricity usage. Link
Pentagon Backs Ambitious Plan to Beam Solar Power From Space [of course they are - it's able to be used a beam weapon and we're all ants under a magnifying glass...]. Link
Department of War drafts EV battery factory into military drone duty with $75M grant. Link
Andy's Video Pick of the Week
I'm not a gamer, but this one is an interesting application where AI is used to reverse engineer binaries and vibe new source code for a new or modded game.
The process should also work for those of you who are non-fun and want to do practical and useful stuff, like me.
Bill Wong's Picks of the Week
I decided to go the networking/communication route for this year's picks from 20 mA current loops to 6G so here goes.
- How to troubleshoot 4-20 mA analog control loops @ Control Design
Diagnostics and signal failure modes in systematic troubleshooting for field instrumentation and control circuits - For 6G, Keep an Eye on AI-RAN Technology @ Microwaves & RF
AI-RAN is shaping up to be the bridge technology that crosses the telecom industry over into AI-native 6G by 2030. - AI agents are on the loose....is your security organization ready? @ Security Infowatch
Kiteworks Chief Strategy Officer Tim Freestone discusses the growing AI governance gap and why stronger collaboration, literacy and data security practices are essential for managing emerging risks. - Ethernet Cabling: The Central Nervous System Of Data Management @ Automation World
As manufacturing becomes more data-driven, reliable Ethernet infrastructure and surge protection are increasingly critical to keeping connected operations running.
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After hours, when he's not working on the latest invention to add to his portfolio of 16 issued US patents, or on his DARPA Challenge drone entry, he's lending advice and experience to the electric vehicle conversion community from his mountain lair in the Pacific Northwet[sic].
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