• Sustainability

GM Wants to Dominate EV Market, Takes Aim At “Pain Points”

• batteries
• cobalt
• Detroit
• EVs
• General Motors
• Tesla

Last week, the CEO of General Motors rolled out the company’s extensive plans to manufacture electric vehicles across all its brands and vehicle models and it even hopes to rejuvenate its luxury Cadillac brand by offering high-end EVs that will compete with Tesla, according to The New York Times.

Why This Matters:  GM is making a big bet on EVs and looking to leapfrog all the other conventional vehicle companies – and make money on these EVs right from the start.

• Sustainability

Volkswagen Will Lead BEV Market By 2030

• BEVs
• electric vehicles
• Kia
• Tesla
• volkswagen

A new analysis by energy industry experts predicts that Volkswagen will produce 14 million electric vehicles by 2028 and will leap from 10th place to the largest producer of BEVs, grabbing more than a quarter of all sales globally. 

Why This Matters:  Making the switch globally to BEVs is one of the key ways to drive down CO2 emissions in the next 10 years.

• Air

PTI – In 2020, Let’s Talk More About Air Pollution

• air pollution
• clean air
• Clean Air Act
• electric vehicles
• Tesla

By Miro Korenha and Monica Medina Pardon the interruption from the constant conversation about the stock market, impeachment and conflict in the Middle East.  We’d like to talk about something completely different.  2020 is the 50th anniversary of the passage of one of our nation’s bedrock environmental laws — the Clean Air Act.  This week […]

• Air

Tesla’s Not So Unbreakable CyberTruck, GM Electric Trucks To Hit in 2021

• clean cars
• electric vehicle
• Tesla
• trucks

On Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk “rolled out” the company’s much-anticipated entry into the electric pickup truck market, and it was eye-catching and unconventional, to say the least. Worse yet, the demonstration of the vehicle’s “unbreakable metal” glass windows did not exactly go as planned, when a metal ball thrown at the windows broke them, not once but twice.

Why This Matters:  This truck may be something that tech bros in Silicon Valley would buy.  But does it look like the kind of vehicle that will sell well in the heartland?

• Energy

Tesla’s Competitors Close In, Elon Musk Remains Optimistic

• EVs
• Tesla

Tesla, under the leadership of CEO Elon Musk, has a vision to put everyone in an electric car and the company’s competitors may make that reality come true while making Tesla a “nice brand” as the Washington Post put it. There were reasons to celebrate at Tesla’s 2019 shareholder meeting help this week but one […]

• Energy

Volkswagen all in on EVs

• cars
• clean cars
• EVs
• Tesla
• VW

After its 2015 scandal where Volkswagen admitted to US regulators that it cheated on emissions tests, the German automaker has unveiled its new plan to invest heavily in electric vehicles and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. According to VW’s recent press release, the company plans to release 70 new electric models in the next ten […]