Electric car rebates end in Ontario, Canada

Canadian reader K's new Tesla Model 3Following the election of Conservative Doug Ford as premier July 7, Ontario, Canada, has canceled the province's generous tax incentives for electric cars, according to an announcement on Wednesday on the Ministry of Transportation's website. The move was widely expected after Ford ran on a platform of cutting government expenses, which included...

VW e-Golf in very short supply as company prepares for ID Crozz electric car

2017 Volkswagen e-Golf, first drive, New York City, April 2017As VW gears up to begin selling its new ID line of electric cars, supplies of its existing electric car, the e-Golf have dropped to just 10 cars nationwide, according to our partners at Cars Direct. Inventories that low usually mean that cars are being discontinued, but Volkswagen said the model will continue for 2018 and 2019. The company has...

Oil prices could double by 2020, boosting electric car sales

Oil well (photo by John Hill)Despite short term peaks and valleys, and a recent agreement by OPEC to ease production restrictions, the overall trend in oil prices is on the rise. That's the conclusion of Bernstein research, an investment research company, which forecast last week that oil could hit $150 a barrel by 2020, just a couple of years from now, according to an...

LA gets first double-decker electric city bus

Alexander Dennis bus converted to electric power by Proterra for Foothill Transit in L.A.When thinking of Los Angeles, clean air and double-decker buses aren't the first things that come to mind. Yet the city of angels will put the first all-electric double-decker bus into service later this year on the Foothill Transit's Silver Line route (or Silver Streak route, depending on which end you start from). The route runs a little more...

Oil interests lobby against carbon tax before it even gets proposed

Smokestacks pollution air qualityThose who make big money off oil interests are wasting no time nipping a new carbon tax in the bud. Before such a proposal ever reaches Congress, a coalition of conservative and energy interests—including the American Energy Alliance, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute—sent a letter to House Republican leaders on Tuesday decrying...

Henrik Fisker is latest to claim solid-state battery breakthrough (Updated)

Fisker EMotionIn the race to build solid state batteries for electric cars, almost nobody is counting on Henrik Fisker and his latest electric-car venture, the EMotion, which debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. Fisker, however, now says the car will launch in 2020 with his long-promised solid-state batteries. "We're actually ahead...

BMW iX3 to be built in China, exported worldwide

BMW iX3 Concept front 3/4BMW has announced it will build its next electric car, the iX3 SUV, in China just as a trade war heats up between the U.S. and China involving cars-and in particular, electric cars. On Monday, BMW announced that it will expand its Chinese partnership with Brilliance, known as BMW Brilliance Automotive or BBA, to build 520,000 BMWs a year...