EV Archives - Granite Grok

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MACDONALD: Hybrids Take Some Heat

January 2, 2026 Steve MacDonald

If EVs are your thing, then by all means, just not with my money, and you need to be honest about how not that green they are. The same applies to wind and solar. I’m not against them, though you might get that impression from the hundreds of pieces I’ve written reporting on how bad … Read more

Clean Cars & Trucks Heading for a Crash

April 7, 2025 Rob Roper

With the Clean Heat Standard in a political coma and the proposed Cap & Invest program dead in its crib, the last global warming agenda domino standing is the Clean Cars and Trucks initiative, which phases out the sale of new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2035 and starts limiting sales in 2026. And … Read more

Making American Cars Affordable Again?

February 12, 2025 Steve MacDonald

When the people who hate people take control, their policies always give them away. They make motor and heating fuel, water, food, electricity, rent, almost anything and everything more expensive – while insisting they are fighting for minorities and lower-income “families,” and the middle class – whom they hate most of all. They hate people, … Read more

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Are You “De-Ranged” Enough to Drive an EV in the Winter?

December 23, 2023 Steve MacDonald

It feels like Electric Vehicle buyers get about as much information as COVID vaccine recipients, which is not much. Like the side effects of ownership. Loss of value, high insurance costs, pricey repairs for minor accident damage, loss of range in the cold of winter.

Democrats DO Love Them Their Administrative State. Shouldn’t This Be A Legislative Action in NJ? Not According to the Guv!

July 22, 2023 Skip

Yesterday, as I write this on Friday for publishing on Saturday) was a complete sinkhole. Got absolutely nothing done in any aspect. Yes, there were reasons, and all of them led to one thing – I was in no mood to write. Hey, it happens.

No Plan in Place for Gas to EV Conversion

August 30, 2022 Ray Cardello

You expect the government to be dysfunctional, but how they are trying to force America to Electric Vehicles is setting a new low in long-range thinking. To make matters worse and more confusing, are the number of states passing laws forbidding the sale of gasoline-powered automobiles in as few as thirteen years. You can make … Read more

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EV Subsidies and Price Hikes, So Which Tail is Wagging What Dog?

August 17, 2022 Steve MacDonald

For months we’ve reported on the exponential cost increase (and lack, domestically) of all the rare-earth metals you need to mine to make batteries for the Electric Vehicle paradise the Left promised. EV makers are finally announcing price hikes, and they just happen to be almost exactly the sum Congress just approved for EV subsidies.

Yeah, This Used EV Car Woe Will Help the EV Transition, Won’t It?

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Skip

I’ve heard about the long charge times. I’ve seen videos of Electric Vehicles queuing up for public chargers – only to wait for hours to be able to spend even more hours actually charging (if Level 1 or Level 2).

The Left’s Electric Car Future Is All Carbon Smoke and Mirrors

June 2, 2022March 10, 2022 Steve MacDonald

As Joe Biden’s gas reaches for the Left’s price-point G-Spot the Twitter-titter of giggling schoolgirls has filled the echo chamber with the glories of Electric vehicles (EVs). Not so fast.

How Long Before Your Woke Green City Bus Terminal is Burned to the Ground?

September 2, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Electric vehicle batteries ignite at an alarming rate. The best estimate of these incidents is “too often,” and of the reporting, “not enough.” Lithium vehicle batteries catch fire incidents that go under-reported. As do the enhanced environmental hazard that burning Lithium Batteries presents.

A Reality Check For Electric Vehicles in the Real America

December 11, 2022May 31, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Electric Vehicles (EVs) have always been a boutique item for well-to-do virtue signalers. Even with gobs of taxpayer-backed incentives (the well-to-do take but don’t need), most EVs are still too expensive for average Americans. But the Left is obsessed, and while that is bad for you, this might be worse.

Read Between the Lines on ‘Eversource Plan’ to Add More EV Charging Stations in New Hampshire

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Progressive Radio (NHPR) has this cute little piece about a regional utility deciding to join a National Vehicle Charging Network. There are not enough Electric Vehicle Charging Stations around these parts, and they mean to fix it. But who pays? You guessed it!

DISQUS Doodlings – It’s the “How It Is Being Done” That Is Wrong. Right?

October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 Skip

Last month, California made the decision that it was going to tell the tide of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to go out and never return. Of course, this got much play – that only electric cars and trucks would be allowed. Petroleum-based vehicles would be illegal to be sold.

Sorta like Obamacare: have to buy it and then you can’t use it…

November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 Skip

(H/T: Powerline)

Report: Electric Vehicles Producing More CO2 than Gas Powered Transportation

July 10, 2022August 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

A new report on transportation and infrastructure has revealed an issue we’ve covered in the past. Electric vehicles (EV) can have a larger carbon footprint than those with traditional gasoline engines.

Well, when private enterprises build their business plan around Obama bailouts, the end is almost certain.

September 26, 2018December 24, 2011 Skip

Well, there were a few posts that I had started and didn’t finish before ‘Grok 1.0 gave up the ghost (or, if really old, just plain forgot about them)….this is one.

I had really thought that the Aptera was a pretty cool looking car (yes, the Eldest, the Youngest, and TMEW DO put up with me) – the idea that it was an EV or a high mileage vehicle was pretty much secondary (interesting, but secondary). Safety rated, nice looking, and geeky – yes, I would have tried to buy one. But, am not going to ever have the chance – the money ran out: