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June 3, 2025
UPDATE: More Context on NJ Turnpike Tesla Charger Removal

As reported by InsideEVs staff writer Suvrat Kothari, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) has requested the removal of 64 Tesla Superchargers from service plazas along one of the busiest highway corridors in the Northeast. The chargers are being decommissioned to make way for new stations operated by…

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May 23, 2025
How Electric Vehicles are Targeted by the Republican Policy Bill

As usual, Jack Ewing has a great write up on the implications of the House’s tax and policy bill on EVs. As he writes, “If passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Trump, the bill would sharply slow the sales and production of battery-powered cars and…

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May 21, 2025
House Republicans Are Ignoring the First Rule of Political Survival

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” is shaping up to be a disaster for the EV and auto industry. For a full rundown on how it’s shaping up, check out this breakdown. In Bloomberg today, Ron Brownstein wrote about how this bill is working against the political best-interest (and the…

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May 16, 2025
Electric shock: The Chinese threat to Europe’s industrial heartland

Thanks to Michael Dunne’s tweet, we’ve been staring at this chart all day. We recommend reading the full report here, curtesy of the European Council of Foreign Relations. As Congress is threatening to pull investment from the U.S auto industry, we would do well to think about how…

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May 12, 2025
Congress Just Took A Step Toward Killing The $7,500 EV Tax Credit

Today the House Ways and Means released what many have been waiting for, the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill”. Find language for the proposal attached. Although expected and feared by many in the industry, this proposal would axe the consumer subsidy for most vehicles by the next year. As noted…

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May 6, 2025
Why 35 House Democrats Joined Republicans Against a Major Climate Policy

Check out this recent article in The New York Times discussing the strange political bedfellows of the California EV transition policy. Though it’s not clear that Congress can strip California of their waiver to create such policy, 25 Democrats crossed over with Republicans in a recent vote to…

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May 1, 2025
Proposed EV Annual Fee of $250

As a signal of how skeptical the current Congress is of EVs, there’s now momentum around charging all EVs $250 per year. The funds would go to the Highway Trust Fund, which is facing a $150B a year shortfall over the next five years. We suggest you read…

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April 22, 2025
Tesla’s Earning Report

Today’s headlines in the EV world centered on Tesla’s disappointing earnings call. And for good reason. The company that sells the plurality of EVs in the US saw automotive revenues drop 20% from last year. Net income went down 71%, and that’s not where the bad news stopped. Tesla…

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March 16, 2025
CNN: Will Republicans buy EVs from Elon Musk?

Check out Michael Smerconish’s recent segment on the influence of Elon Musk and Tesla on the EV transition. He cites our data as well as his own lived experience in this great analysis. Watch below!

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March 14, 2025
NPR: Elon Musk is winning Republican fans. Can Tesla win them over, too?

It’s been a wild couple of weeks for the politics of EVs. Somehow it all led to Donald Trump selling Tesla’s on the White House front lawn? How do these events change our thinking of the ever-present political divide on EVs? Is Elon still uniquely positioned to close the…

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