Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Jonna Hamilton, Director of Policy, the Clean Transportation Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) We have been waiting with bated breath for the new version of the electric vehicle (EV) tax credit from Congress. Today, the House Ways and … [continued]
Elon Musk shared a piece on Sunday published on Bloomberg along with his thoughts on who exactly wrote it — Ford and UAW lobbyists. He also pointed out that Ford’s EVs are not even made in America. How does this serve the American taxpayer? It doesn’t. The article, which touched … [continued]
First, a word on how legislation is made in the USA, in the simplest effective way I can formulate it right now: If a bill is going to be passed into law, most members of the House of Representatives, most members of the Senate, and the President of the United … [continued]
Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Jonna Hamilton The Senate has been very busy in the past few weeks, and after they come back from “recess” (aka the home work period), they are going to pick right up where they left off. The big story, in my … [continued]
I know that CleanTechnica and every other outlet covered the Biden administration’s snub of Tesla on Thursday, but much of the commentary I’ve seen was from people who were disappointed in the Biden administration’s actions. Some feared it was bad for Tesla to not get the attention, or would make … [continued]
The National Organization of Transformative Automakers (NOTA) Workers Union is a union that describes itself as workers who are changing the world, and coming together with a list of demands. How this union relates to Tesla is pretty evident when you visit the website. I wonder if Elon created it. … [continued]
As we reported recently, there’s a big cleantech bill moving through the US Congress that would revive, extend, and expand the zero-emission vehicle tax credit in various ways. Our friend Loren McDonald over at EVAdoption looked at the details model by model and has provided a table showing how much … [continued]
The US Senate Finance Committee has put forth a bill to extend and strongly improve the US federal EV tax credit.
My colleague Steve is always taking the good stories fast. Steve! This time, he beat us all to covering the proposed Electric Cars Act. Which is cool, because he gave it a very thorough analysis and now I don’t have to. On the other hand, my experience working with dealers … [continued]
Congressional Democrats just introduced the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act. If this bill is passed, it will help both Tesla and GM. The bill would add more EV tax credits, an additional 400,000 units, for each automaker. Tesla and GM have already sold too many cars for … [continued]
