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A GMC Hummer EV Driver Paid $85.20 at One Charging Stop on His Las Vegas Trip, Bringing the Battery From 23% to 99%
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (1072+ words) Steven Smith’s first long family road trip in his GMC Hummer EV came with a comfortable ride, a successful Las Vegas vacation, and an $85.20 charging stop in Barstow. That bill bought a substantial recharge: the session began at 23% and ended…...
EV Sales Fell 27% in Q1 2026, but UC Davis Says Automakers Pulling Back Caused More of the $53 Billion Retreat Than Buyers Did
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (257+ words) America's EV strategy is lurching. Policy reversals, people's hesitations, and automakers scrambling to protect their balance sheets have turned what was supposed to be a clean, steady sprint toward electrification into a messy, uneven stumble. The Numbers Look Bad, but…...
Ford Still Lists Its $28,350 Fathom for 2027, but Washington Just Put Its CATL Battery Strategy Under Fire
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (1283+ words) Ford also did something important after the controversy erupted: it defended rather than abandoned the battery arrangement at the center of it. In its Sept. 8 response, Ford said its Michigan battery plant is Ford-owned and Ford-operated, employs American workers, and…...
Google Adds 25 Class 8 Electric Trucks to a 63-Truck Texas Fleet, Never Mentions Tesla Semi, And Expects to Cut 92,000 Tons of CO2e
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (448+ words) Here's a fun little puzzle for you. Google just announced a major electric trucking deal in Texas. The blog post announcing it has a picture of a semi truck at the top. That truck sure looks like a Tesla Semi....
Ford F-150 Lightning Driver Says Pro Power Shut Off Every 30 Minutes at 76% Charge, Even With “Keep On” Selected
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (852+ words) A Ford driver, Jonathan Hailey, tried the fan. Then the chargers. Then different combinations of both. According to his account, his 2025 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum kept giving him the same result: Pro Power Onboard shut off after 30 minutes. The truck had…...
Ford Mustang Mach-E and Hyundai Ioniq 5 Owners Told Us Elon Musk Pushed Them Away From Tesla, but Cox Data Shows Tesla Just Climbed to 55% of the U.S. EV Market
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (968+ words) We ran two polls in two places where we expected the answers to line up. One went into a Hyundai Ioniq 5 owners group. The other went into a Ford Mustang Mach-E owners group. In both, we asked people who had…...
A 2015 Escalade Owner Spent Thousands in His First 20 Days of Ownership, but His Warning Is Really About Budgeting, Not the SUV
1+ week, 1+ day ago (619+ words) Mike wasn't complaining. He wanted to make that clear before he even listed what broke. Escalade Owners public group on Facebook, Mike said he bought a 2015 Cadillac Escalade with 38,000 miles on it because he loves how that generation looks. Within…...
Ford, Hyundai, Kia, Honda EV Deliveries Fell Sharply in August
1+ week, 4+ day ago (187+ words) U.S. deliveries for many models considered popular by EV enthusiasts dropped dramatically in August. This monthly delivery data follows the same clear pattern of rapidly dropping EV deliveries we’ve now seen for many months. EV deliveries are dropping so fast and…...
This F-150 Buyer Paid $26,200 for a Lifted 2018 Lariat and Thought He Snagged a Steal, But Its 10R80 Transmission Alone Could Cost $10,000 to Fix
1+ week, 6+ day ago (749+ words) A 2018 Ford F-150 Lariat with 86,000 miles, a 6-inch lift, and 37-inch tires for $26,200 out the door sounds like a steal. And a clean computer scan backed that up. The computer scan found zero fault codes and noted clean fluids. Then the…...
Early Tesla Cybertruck Owners Are Seeing Their Vehicles Appreciate in Value – One Owner Says, “I Paid $85,000 For My Cybertruck, and After 2 Years and 35,000 Miles, Carvana Is Offering Me $70,000”
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (618+ words) Early Cybertruck owners are seeing their vehicles maintain or even slightly increase in value after recent lows. A couple of years ago, Cybertruck owners were reporting that their vehicles had lost $30,000 to $40,000 in value after driving a few thousand miles....