Gullible Europe has signed the death warrant for its own car industry – The Government has made its mind up that it’s not going to abandon the all-electric dogma

We have all underestimated the long game that China is playing. It has convinced the West to dispose of its advantage in internal combustion engines for what one automotive critic calls “glorified golf carts” that only China can make cheaply. Labour will hide behind free trade and consumer welfare arguments as domestic industries suffer.

“The damage has been done – it devalued the car companies we had”, says Emissions Analytics’ Molden. “Governments have forced on the marketplace a technology where only non-European countries can succeed in a competitive market.”

The suicidal EV mandate is handing hundreds of millions in subsidies to Chinese EV makers, encouraging their invasion of the UK market. Orlowski sees a future where the European motor industry is merely an assembly line of imported parts.

SCOTUS Cites Hypocrisy of EPA-Calif. Bid to Block Fuel Producers’ Lawsuit Against Mandate

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/scotus-cites-hypocrisy-epa-calif-bid-block-fuel-producers-lawsuit-against By Craig Bannister On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that a lawsuit by fuel producers against the EPA could proceed, reversing a lower court’s ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge an EPA waiver allowing California to require automakers to produce more electric vehicles and fewer gas-powered vehicles. The Supreme Court decision reverses […]

Claim: ‘Trump Is Causing America To Fall Behind On EVs’ – U.S. trailing global EV ‘adoption rate’

https://www.jalopnik.com/1889552/trump-america-falling-behind-evs/ BY AMBER DASILVA Happy Wednesday! It’s June 18, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. This is where you’ll find the most important stories that are shaping the way Americans drive and get around. In this morning’s edition, we’re […]

‘Fast’ EV charging more expensive than gasoline in U.S. & Europe

EV hoax laid bare: Fast EV charging is more expensive than gasoline in the US and Europe and is only cheaper than gasoline in China because of coal-fired electricity generation. https://t.co/kd6Wd2cb9w pic.twitter.com/Ne4Tm6gp3J — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) June 18, 2025

Media finally gets it: ‘The dimming future of U.S. EV sales’ – ‘Analysts are slashing estimates for U.S. EV sales’ after Trump/GOP ‘scuttle tax credits & emissions rules’

Data: BloombergNEF; Note: Covers fully electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; Chart: Axios Visuals https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-generate-6d5434d0-4b74-11f0-87f4-5f6cce2ae8c1.html By Ben Geman Excerpt: Analysts are slashing estimates for U.S. EV sales in coming years as GOP lawmakers and Trump officials scuttle tax credits and emissions rules. Why it matters: Transportation is the biggest U.S. share of CO2. And dimming sales forecasts […]

Repealing California’s EV mandate restores power to the people

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jun/15/repealing-californias-ev-mandate-restores-power-people/ By Frank Lasee Americans deserve the freedom to choose vehicles that match their needs Excerpt:President Trump signed a congressional resolution Thursday to overturn a California regulation that would have allowed the state to mandate electric vehicles by 2035. Though the signing was followed almost immediately by a state lawsuit against the administration, it marked […]

Watch: Morano on Fox praising the end of gas car bans: ‘Trump & EPA’s Lee Zeldin should be winning every award possible. Zeldin is the most effective EPA administrator in its history’

  “Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin should be winning every award possible. Lee Zeldin is the most effective EPA administrator in its history. This was something that was long overdue, and this is the key, Congress got involved. This isn’t just an executive order that the next president… pic.twitter.com/zfSqQ1f9nW — StudiGo (@StudiGo_LLC) June 12, 2025 […]