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MACDONALD: More Bad News for EV Sales and EV Owners

October 8, 2025 Steve MacDonald

People who want to buy an EV are welcome to do so, but will have to do it without taxpayers’ props up. And people who sell EVs will likewise have to push the product absent expiring rebates. That’ll make these expensive beasts more challenging to move, but my sense is that EV sellers have never … Read more

Roper: Those Polluting EVs….

August 8, 2025 Rob Roper

In my recent “Cage Match Conversation” with fellow WDEV radio host Kevin Ellis (Great debate, check out the podcast!), the subject of electric vehicles and the recent decision by Congress to end the EPA’s ability to regulate tailpipe CO2 emissions as pollutants came up. I pointed out the reason for this policy change is that … Read more

Klar: Gas-Powered Engine Revival in High Gear

June 13, 2025 John Klar

GM revving up to create new V-8 engines as EVs flounder Americans aren’t as excited about electric vehicles (EVs) as they once were, so now General Motors (GM) is getting back in the gas-burning game. The company announced a major production shift at its Tonawanda Propulsion plant in New York state. GM has abandoned its … Read more

MacDonald: [Update] How Do We Mitigate THESE Emissions?

June 13, 2025June 8, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Update: The cargo vessel has now been abandoned. And while no cause has been officially assigned, the lithium batteries are the prime suspect. Photographs show the vessel still smoking hundreds of miles from the nearest coastline days after the initial distress signal was received. Thick columns of smoke can be seen billowing into the sky. Incredibly, all … Read more

MacDonald: This Is Saving Democracy?

May 28, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Whenever anyone references our Democracy, especially on social media, someone, typically several of them, feels compelled to remind anyone in range that we live in a Republic, with good reason. No one is taught that. You have to learn it on your own. You also must learn that it is a Federal Republic, and everything … Read more

MacDonald: EV School Buses Sidelined Over Fire Hazard

May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Buses built by Lion Electric are bursting into flames across the fruited plains. The fires have prompted a local transportation company providing bus service to a Vermont school district to discontinue use. After reported fires in Lion Electric buses across the country, Student Transportation of Vermont removed Barre Town’s buses for safety precautions. They reached … Read more

Roper: Fate of Disastrous EV Cars & Truck Mandates Rests with Governor

May 10, 2025 Rob Roper

The latest clash between climate ideology and reality – the requirement in the Global Warming Solutions Act (2020) that Vermont adopt California’s Clean Cars and Clean Trucks standards – is coming to a head. So far reality has been racking up the victories with the Clean Heat Standard for home heating now lying “dormant” as … Read more

Right Side Up 4-28-2025

April 28, 2025 Right Side Up

This week we discuss an opportunity to hold back the Nut Zero, Electric Vehicle crazy, at least for a few years, and why it is so important to do that. We also share some inconvenient truths about CO2 and a few other here and there’s along the way. Check Out Camping &Survival Gear and Support … Read more

EV Fails, Methane, and Green Energy Mistakes

February 10, 2025 Right Side Up

This week… epic losses by Ford Mo.Co. in the EV sector, the war on methane, and Green Energy mistakes in Ca. & N.Y.” Please like, follow, or subscribe to The ‘Grok on Rumble and YouTube and check for Replays of Granite State Live, GrokTALK! and Right Side Up, or follow these links to their podcast pages.

Ideologically Driven Electrification Mandates Make Life Unaffordable Too

December 14, 2024 Rob Roper

Vermont’s unaffordability crisis is most visibly driven by high taxes that come directly out of our pockets: sky-high property taxes, above-average sales taxes, fees on our electric bills, the new payroll tax, etc. A “clean heat” surcharge on fuel bills would be easy to spot. But the mandates our legislators saddle local businesses with – … Read more

Lithium Powered Emergency Vehicle Burns Down Fire Station

October 19, 2024 Steve MacDonald

First, and more importantly, no one was injured after a fire in a fire station destroyed over 20 million Euros worth of equipment, including a dozen vehicles. The cause is known—lithium batteries connected to a charger. AN EV emergency vehicle on charge achieved thermal runaway and took out an entire fire station. Did I mention … Read more

Are EVs Good or Bad for the Environment?

October 18, 2024 John Klar

The government offers large amounts of money for Americans to buy electric vehicles (EVs) to help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Many claims about EVs and their effects on the environment often seem conflicting. As with most manmade products, it can be difficult to fully measure all the environmental impacts: the … Read more

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For Harris Pro-Choice Does Not Include Cars and Appliances

October 18, 2024 Kevin M. Spivak

Kamala Harris wants to deprive Americans of the right to choose cars and household appliances. When she claims, as she did at a rally last week in Michigan, that “I will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive” she is guilty of two of the Democrats’ most reviled offenses, malinformation (failure to … Read more

Green Problems: How Many EVs Must You Sell to Reverse the Emissions of One EV Fire?

June 7, 2025October 8, 2024 Steve MacDonald

We have over 300 bits of content on Electric Vehicles: articles, research, graphs, sales figures, losses in an investment, and (of course) evidence that they are not just not green; they are brown. From tires to weight, construction to transportation, mining, manufacture, disposal, and how the electricity they use is generated, they are brown. Hurricane … Read more

Harris Doesn’t Want To Talk About EVs – It’s Easy To Understand Why

September 17, 2024 David Blackmon

A video accompanying a headline Wall Street Journal piece detailing the struggles of Ford Motor Company and its CEO, Jim Farley, shows a woman walking through an enormous electric vehicle graveyard in China as the narrator warns viewers that “Washington is worried that an oversupply of Chinese EVs will flood the global market and there are already … Read more

More Energy Transition Emissions

August 28, 2024 Steve MacDonald

It is no secret that EV makers have been struggling. The vehicles are expensive and unreliable—did we mention that they are expensive? Tesla has managed to maintain its edge and market share, but given all the space required for solar, there is only so much room in the world for these lawn ornaments. Saturation was … Read more

Ford Backs Away From EVs … Just a Little Bit.

August 25, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Electric vehicles aren’t going away just yet, but the industry has been having a rough year. Multiple manufacturers have scaled back production and retooled EV facilities for gas-powered vehicles or, like Ford, are shifting some capacity from EV-only to Gas Hybrid. The company said it won’t build fully electric three-row SUVs due to battery costs. … Read more

Dissatisfied EV Owners Spell Doom for Electric Car Manufacturing

July 19, 2024 John Klar

A recent consumer survey revealed that 46% of US electric car owners wish to switch back to a gas-powered car. In an industry already facing hurdles with charging stations, cost, and public skepticism, consumer distaste over performance and a hefty price tag threatens to eviscerate future EV sales. Despite subsidies and claims of world-saving environmental … Read more

EVs, ICEVs, Repairability, and Outrage – Part 2

October 10, 2024July 8, 2024 Skip

Lloyd Alter at Carbon Upfront (heh! The “new” Treehugger”) is NOT a fan of the “Gigacasting” method that is overtaking the auto industry led by Tesla. That manufacturing technique involves high-pressure form/mold pressing of larger and larger parts for Teslas instead of press stamping lots of little pieces and then having to weld, rivet, or screw them all together.

Harvard Study Finds EV Charging Infrastructure is Unreliable – Including Home Chargers

July 3, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Harvard Business School (HBS) researchers, yes, THAT Harvard, have found that “Electric vehicle (EV) chargers have a high malfunction rate” and that “EV drivers can expect non-residential charging systems to not work approximately 20% of the time.”