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Feds Ban General Motors from Selling Your Data

The US Federal Trade Commission has banned General Motors from selling sensitive driver data. The agency alleges that the automaker and its OnStar service collected and sold precious geolocation and driving behavior data without obtaining proper consent, and now it can’t sell it to consumer reporting agencies for five years.

Motor1 · Jan 17, 2025

How smaller, more affordable electric cars can accelerate the green transition

Norway is set to make history by becoming the first nation to sell only zero emission (electric- or hydrogen-powered) vehicles by the end of 2025. While this doesn’t mean that fossil fuel-powered cars already on the road will suddenly disappear there, it marks a decisive shift towards their eventual obsolescence.

The Conversation · Jan 17, 2025

Rivian Just Got A Major New Lifeline

The Biden administration's climate change investments are still taking shape even amid the president's very last days in the White House. Over the last few weeks, it's been an absolute blitz: Fast-tracked approvals for loans and grants for all sorts of clean energy projects, including chargers and battery plants. Now days…

InsideEVs · Jan 17, 2025

Volkswagen Is Closing Factories. China's EV Makers Want Them

German automakers are looking to the sky right now. But it's not drones over New Jersey that the Deutsch are worried about, it's Chinese electric vehicle makers circling over their European plants like vultures, ready to sink their teeth into idled plants while the machinery is still warm.

InsideEVs · Jan 16, 2025

The Silverado EV Might Just Save America

Congrats, you survived the holidays. And if you’re lucky, with mere flesh wounds. Don’t worry, there’s always a chance for pumpkin-spice dismemberment over next year’s roast. At least that’s how the cliche goes. 

Motor1 · Jan 16, 2025

Toyota's truck division Hino to pay $1.6 billion as part of emissions scandal

A Toyota subsidiary has agreed to pay more than $1.6 billion and plead guilty for violations related to the submission of false and fraudulent engine emission testing and fuel consumption data to regulators and the illicit smuggling of engines into the United States

The Independent UK · Jan 16, 2025

Don't Try To Vandalize ChargePoint's New Cables

There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity, and I would say that cutting into a high-voltage electric car charging cable is where that line gets crossed. Yet vandalism of EV chargers is an unfortunate, inconvenient and dangerous reality. Fortunately, U.S.-based charging giant ChargePoint says it has a series of…

InsideEVs · Jan 16, 2025

Elon Musk, Who Wants To End EV Subsidies, Is Mad Tesla Was Denied Subsidies

Elon Musk is no stranger to being critical of the government. The quick-typing CEO has found his political voice in recent months, quickly forming a fruitful alliance with President-elect Donald Trump. He's even used his influence to call for the ending of the electric vehicle tax credit, something which Trump…

InsideEVs · Jan 16, 2025

Rivian’s Van Outsold The Ford E-Transit And Mercedes-Benz eSprinter Combined

With news of Rivian’s R1S electric SUV making it on the top 10 list of best-selling EVs last year, it’s easy to forget that the California-based startup also makes commercial vehicles. And while vans aren’t particularly exciting–they’re basically big metal boxes on wheels–Rivian’s humble Electric Delivery Van (EDV), later renamed…

InsideEVs · Jan 16, 2025

Transportation secretary pick vows to buck any pressure to help Elon Musk in agency probes of Tesla

Transportation secretary nominee Sean Duffy promised to not interfere in ongoing agency investigations into Elon Musk’s electric car company if confirmed to head the department

The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2025