EV maker Nikola – once ‘considered the pinnacle of auto startups’ – files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – ‘Was valued more than Ford Motor at $30 billion’

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/19/nikola-chapter-11-bankruptcy-protection.html By Michael Wayland Nikola filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to secure a buyer or raise additional funds to maintain operations. The filing marks the finale of the company’s yearslong fall from grace. Nikola’s core products are all-electric and fuel cell electric semitrucks. At its peak in 2020, Nikola was valued more than Ford […]

EPA head Lee Zeldin reveals no real oversight of shocking $20B that Biden admin funneled through Citibank: ‘Tip of the iceberg’

https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/epa-head-lee-zeldin-reveals-no-real-oversight-of-shocking-20-billion-waste-biden-administration-funneled-through-citibank/ By Kelly Jane Torrance A $20 billion Biden administration green-energy slush fund was collecting interest at a private bank and is being distributed without proper oversight, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin reveals in an exclusive interview. President Joe Biden’s EPA parked $20 billion at the financial institution, which The Post has learned is Citibank, as part of […]

Joe Biden Wasted $160 Million on a Bankrupt Canadian Electric Bus Company

Joe Biden Wasted $160 Million on a Bankrupt Canadian Electric Bus Company by Warner Todd Huston With all the talk about the sheer, monumental waste in our government, all sorts of stories of massive waste is coming to light, including this one about our tax dollars wasted on an electric bus company in Canada. That’s right, […]

Haaland Failed As Interior Secretary, Now She Wants To Run New Mexico Into The Ground

https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/14/haaland-failed-as-interior-secretary-now-she-wants-to-run-new-mexico-into-the-ground/ By: Daniel Turner Using history as a guide, Gov. Deb Haaland will likely do to New Mexico what she did to America, and the state will suffer enormously as a result. In declaring her candidacy for governor of New Mexico, former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland became the first high-ranking official from the Biden administration […]

Lee Zeldin demands return of $20B ‘parked’ at a financial institution by ‘Biden EPA’ to dole out to climate groups

https://nypost.com/2025/02/12/us-news/lee-zeldin-demands-return-of-20b-parked-at-a-financial-institution-by-biden-epa-to-dole-out-to-climate-groups/ By Victor Nava EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday that he’s found $20 billion in taxpayer money that the Biden administration “parked” at a financial institution — in an apparent effort to prevent the Trump administration from cutting grants to “far-left activist groups.” Zeldin, 45, explained in a video posted on X that the Biden […]

Trump Orders End to ‘Crooked Joe’ Biden’s Green Energy Regulations on Household Appliances

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/11/president-donald-trump-orders-end-crooked-joe-bidens-green-energy-regulations-household-appliances/ By Amy Furr President Donald Trump is waging war against former President Joe Biden’s green energy regulations on Americans’ household appliances. Trump made the announcement in a social media post at 5:57 a.m. on Tuesday and said he was instructing Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Lee Zeldin to oversee the matter, Fox News reported. The […]

Caught on Tape: EPA Advisor Admits Agency Hastily Allocated Billions in Climate Change Funds Before Trump Took Office

Caught on Tape: EPA Advisor Admits Agency Hastily Allocated Billions in Climate Change Funds Before Trump Took Office by Jim Hᴏft An EPA advisor was exposed in a Project Veritas undercover video admitting that the agency rushed to allocate billions of taxpayer dollars to climate change initiatives just before President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Brent Efron, a special advisor […]

‘California EV sales stalled…raising questions about whether state will fail to meet its groundbreaking mandate banning sales of gas-powered vehicles’

Excerpt: David Simpson, who owns three car dealerships in Orange County, said he is not seeing increased demand for electric cars. While the initial rollout of some models, such as the GMC Hummer EV, did well at first, the demand did not continue. Sales of the Chevrolet Equinox and Blazer EVs do alright, but aren’t strong, either, he said.

“The sales are declining,” Simpson said. “We’ve filled that gap of people who want those cars — and now they have them — and we’re not seeing a big, huge demand. I don’t see households going 100% EV.”

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Brian Maas, president of the California New Car Dealers Association, said  automakers could seek to avoid the fines by reducing the number of gas-powered cars they send to California dealers. He said that could leave fewer options for buyers, drive up prices and push some consumers to Nevada or Arizona to find the car they want, while others will hold on to their older, more polluting vehicles. “We’re just not going to make the mandate as presently drafted” so automakers will have to take action, Maas said. “The most rational is to constrain inventory.”

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Last month, John Bozzella, the group’s chief executive, called California’s rules “by any measure not achievable” after President Donald Trump signed an executive order repealing federal rules promoting electric vehicles. “There’s a saying in the auto business: You can’t get ahead of the customer,” Bozzella said. … Californians have purchased more than 2 million electric cars, leading the nation. The number has doubled in about two years.