Why Can’t the U.S. Build 5-Minute E.V. Chargers?
Chinese automakers have rolled out chargers that can mostly recharge a car’s battery in about five minutes. Yet U.S. technology lags far behind.
Trump Is Turning Us Into a Doddering Industrial Giant
Smothering electric vehicles might have been a regrettable mistake for a Republican to make 10 years ago. Today, it is economic idiocy.
Car Companies Are Paying Tariffs So You Don’t Have To
But automakers can’t absorb the cost forever and will soon begin to raise new car prices, analysts say.
Ford Is Latest Carmaker to Blame Tariffs for Profit Slump
The company estimated that duties on imported cars and car parts would cost it $2 billion this year.
Tesla Expected to Report Falling Profit as Car Sales Fall
Elon Musk has said that robotaxis are the company’s future, but most revenue still comes from cars.
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.
Chinese Cars, Brazil Style
China wants to dominate the market for the cars of the future, and it has set its sights on Brazil’s giant auto market.
G.M. Profit Shrinks on Billion-Dollar Tariff Hit
General Motors was the second auto company this week, after Stellantis, to show the toll that President Trump’s trade policies are taking on the industry.
Trump’s War on Clean Energy Will Fail
It is inevitable that America will eventually follow the rest of the world and that in 40 or so years, it will run mainly on sun and wind.
U.S. Proposes Steep Tariffs on Critical E.V. Battery Material
The Commerce Department plans to impose a 93.5 percent levy on Chinese graphite, an essential ingredient in the batteries that power electric vehicles.