Sunday December 9, 2018 – Sedans Being Phased Out – Right now people in the USA are not buying sedans in large numbers, at least they are not buying US built ICE powered sedans in large numbers.  While the sedan market is slow, sales of SUVs and Pickup Trucks are booming.  This has led both GM and Ford to announce that they are going to phase out their sedan line-up...Continued

Sunday December 2, 2018 – 2018 LA Auto Show - The LA Auto Show kicked off this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center and it is amazing to see how far we have come with plug-in vehicles since I started covering the show over a decade ago. Back then it was the occasional NEV, a few standard hybrids and perhaps a concept car or two.  This year the show was teaming with them...Contunued

Sunday November 25, 2018 – Fourth National Climate Assessment – The Fourth National Climate Assessment was released with little fanfare on November 23, 2018.  The Global Change Research Act of 1990 calls for the release of a report on the impacts of climate change every for years and this one was quite grim...Continued

Sunday November 18, 2018 – EV Tax Credit Extension – The current Federal EV tax credit, which can be a maximum of $7,500, is set to phase out after a car company sells 200,000 plug-in vehicles.  So  far Tesla is the only car company that has reached this figure but GM and Nissan are coming very close to this target...Continued

Sunday Nov 11, 2018 – California Burns Again  – On Saturday Afternoon I visited Century Shopping Center and as I was walking around the mall I began to smell smoke.  It got worse as time passed until the sky became a brownish gray color and the air became difficult to breath.  What I was smelling was smoke coming from the Woolsey fire that is burning across parts of Ventura and LA Counties...Continued