Electric Vehicles Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Mar 18, 2024

“EVs Have Big Ears,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, March 14, 2023.

by | Mar 1, 2024

It looks as though the citizens of Los Angeles, the legendary traffic capital of America, the place that gifted us freeway gridlock and smog, the “spaghetti bowl” of freeways and the parking lot that is “the 405 Freeway,” will vote…

by | Feb 28, 2024

SACRAMENTO — Thanks to the wonders of social media, it’s easy to find large communities of car-loathing, bicycle-riding, transit-loving urbanists who view cars as “death machines” and insist they are the cause of every woe known to mankind. Many of these…

by and | Jan 19, 2024

This week’s arctic cold snap has The Spectacle host Melissa Mackenzie wrapped in a scarf in her Texas home and co-host Scott McKay in a fedora to protect his ears — and it also has charging stations in Chicago turning…

by | Jan 15, 2024

What if you could turn back time — to 2008 — and buy a brand-new half-ton truck like they used to make them? One without the “assistance” and other “technologies” that come standard with the new ones, like it or…

by | Dec 15, 2023

When Sergio Marchionne was running Fiat, he advised people to not buy the electric version of the 500, Fiat’s “Italian Job” micro-car. Why? Because each “sale” would cost Fiat a lot of money as the electric 500 could not be…

by | Dec 6, 2023

The government has a dilemma: It’s pushing hard for fuel-efficient vehicles, but gas taxes pay for roads. There’s an obvious fix, but are Americans ready for it? Granted, tax credits, subsidies, and government mandates aren’t delivering the electric-vehicle sales surge…

by | Nov 29, 2023

SACRAMENTO — I’ve been spending time engaging with urbanists on X (formerly Twitter) so that you, dear American Spectator readers, can avoid doing so. By the way, it’s not something I’d recommend unless you have a large stash of blood-pressure medication. Obviously,…

by | Sep 26, 2023

On Sept. 15, approximately 13,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) members — roughly 10 percent of the union’s members at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis factories in the U.S. — went on strike.  The UAW is demanding wage increases of 36…

by | Sep 26, 2023

Joe Biden has joined the UAW strikers. I’m not sure if he’s attending as a worker or as a motorized vehicle. Or maybe to apologize to the strikers, because if there’s anything really threatening their wages, if there’s anything that’s…

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