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July 3, 2025
The Big Beautiful Gift to China

Well, Congress just wrapped it up, put a bow on it, and handed it to Beijing. Today, the House passed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” sending it to President Trump for his July 4 signing ceremony. It is being sold as a patriotic win for American workers. In reality, it…

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June 27, 2025
Mike Murphy on Climate One’s “Is the EV Transition Stuck in Neutral?”

This week, our CEO, Mike Murphy, appears on Climate One to discuss a surprising stall in U.S. electric-vehicle sales. Once forecast to hit nearly 50 percent of new-car sales by 2030, that projection has dropped below 30 percent, raising big questions about consumer demand, policy shifts, and global competition. Mike’s…

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June 24, 2025
Directly Current Episode 25: EV Fleets with Libby Bittman, Wex

🎧 Listen on Audioboom📺 Watch on YouTube EV adoption isn’t just about your driveway anymore. It’s about commercial fleets. In this episode of Directly Current, we dive into the growing EV shift in business vehicles with Libby Bittman, Electric Vehicle (EV) & Mobility Business Development…

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June 17, 2025
Majority of Top 10 Most American-Made Cars? EVs

Here’s a stat worth chewing on: for the first time ever, a majority of the top 10 most “American-made” vehicles are electric. You read that right. According to this MarketWatch story, six of the top ten cars on the annual Cars.com American-Made Index are EVs. That includes…

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June 11, 2025
Directly Current Episode 24: Charging Ahead with Electric Era CEO Quincy Lee

Reliable DC Fast Charging is still hit-or-miss in 2025. While Tesla has opened its Supercharger network to other automakers, many EV drivers — especially those with newer, high-voltage vehicles — struggle to find stations that deliver full power where they need it most, like outside a Costco or on the…

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June 3, 2025
UPDATE: More Context on NJ Turnpike Tesla Charger Removal

As reported by InsideEVs staff writer Suvrat Kothari, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) has requested the removal of 64 Tesla Superchargers from service plazas along one of the busiest highway corridors in the Northeast. The chargers are being decommissioned to make way for new stations operated by…

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May 27, 2025
Mike On Batteries Included

When you get the chance, listen to Mike and Batteries Included hosts Tom Moloughney and Domenick Yoney. Mike talks through the potential implications of the Big Beautiful Bill that just passed the House, and what we’re doing here at the American EV Jobs Alliance to fight against the worst…

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May 27, 2025
Directly Current Episode 23: Improving EV Towing and Camping with Lightship CEO, Toby Kraus

Electric towing is hard, particularly when you’re hauling a big family-sized camper that can halve a Rivian’s range. Lightship is a startup that’s laser-focused on solving that pickle by engineering a smart trailer that not only makes itself more aerodynamic in motion, but also pulls its own weight with an…

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May 23, 2025
How Electric Vehicles are Targeted by the Republican Policy Bill

As usual, Jack Ewing has a great write up on the implications of the House’s tax and policy bill on EVs. As he writes, “If passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Trump, the bill would sharply slow the sales and production of battery-powered cars and…

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May 21, 2025
House Republicans Are Ignoring the First Rule of Political Survival

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” is shaping up to be a disaster for the EV and auto industry. For a full rundown on how it’s shaping up, check out this breakdown. In Bloomberg today, Ron Brownstein wrote about how this bill is working against the political best-interest (and the…

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May 19, 2025
Directly Current Episode 22: The Long, Messy Road To Desirable EVs with Declan Kavanaugh

Long before the Tesla Roadster or GM EV.1 were a twinkle in engineers’ eyes, there were people hard at work making whacky electric cars in their garages. Declan Kavanaugh, a college student and budding engineer interning at startup Telo Trucks, is one such enthusiast, taking pride in buying cheap EV…

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May 16, 2025
Electric shock: The Chinese threat to Europe’s industrial heartland

Thanks to Michael Dunne’s tweet, we’ve been staring at this chart all day. We recommend reading the full report here, curtesy of the European Council of Foreign Relations. As Congress is threatening to pull investment from the U.S auto industry, we would do well to think about how…

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