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May 12, 2025

Congress Just Took A Step Toward Killing The $7,500 EV Tax Credit

Today the House Ways and Means released what many have been waiting for, the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill”. Find language for the proposal attached. Although expected and feared by many in the industry, this proposal would axe the consumer subsidy for most vehicles by the next year. As noted…

May 1, 2025

Proposed EV Annual Fee of $250

As a signal of how skeptical the current Congress is of EVs, there’s now momentum around charging all EVs $250 per year. The funds would go to the Highway Trust Fund, which is facing a $150B a year shortfall over the next five years. We suggest you read…

April 29, 2025

Directly Current Episode 21: Building Electric Trucks In America (with Harbinger Motors’ John Harris)

Harbinger Motors is making medium-duty electric trucks right here in America. While some OEMs have rolled out light duty vans for deliveries, John Harris wants to make chassis for vehicles with higher gross vehicle weight ratings for delivery customers. It’s a niche that Harbinger is filling with proprietary motor technology,…

April 22, 2025

Tesla’s Earning Report

Today’s headlines in the EV world centered on Tesla’s disappointing earnings call. And for good reason. The company that sells the plurality of EVs in the US saw automotive revenues drop 20% from last year. Net income went down 71%, and that’s not where the bad news stopped. Tesla…

April 15, 2025

Directly Current Episode 20: Tesla in the Crosshairs (with Andrew Lambrecht)

Andrew Lambrecht owns a Tesla Model 3, freelance writes for several EV publications, and is a graduating engineering student who’s interned at startups like Lucid Motors. Max bring him on Directly Current this week to talk Tesla amidst a chaotic and unpredictable CEO, global headwinds, an aging product lineup, and…

April 1, 2025

Directly Current Episode 19: Live Crew Show From EVCS in Vegas

There’s no place like Vegas, or more specifically, the EV Charging Summit and Expo at the Westgate! The EV Politics crew (CEO Mike Murphy, Executive Director Joe Sacks, friend of the cause Sarah King, and special guest Tom Moloughney) react in realtime from their booth to the 25% tariff announced…

February 27, 2025

The EV Fight in Congress: California Here We Come…

As the budget fight in Congress moves toward EV subsidies, there is certain to be a Congressional effort to overturn California’s pending ban on the sale of new gasoline powered cars and light trucks by 2035. These “bans” are a favorite EV bashing message of the Trump administration (even though…

February 17, 2025

Meet us in Vegas at the EV Charging Summit

We’re a month out from the EV Charging Summit in Vegas! For those attending, look out for Mike’s talk on Tuesday morning, 3/25, on our new polling on the EV-political divide, and how we can overcome it. Also please be sure to check out the American EV…

February 13, 2025

Geek Out on NEVI With a Vital Fact-Based Explainer Video!

The Federal “NEVI” program to fund more EV charging infrastructure has been a source of great confusion and frankly, plenty of deliberate and malicious anti-EV misinformation. Now, with President Trump firing off Executive Orders trying to strangle the NEVI program just as it really begins to ramp up there is…

February 12, 2025

Murphy and McElroy talk Elon

Check out Mike and John’s conversation on Autoline about our recent report on Elon and Tesla!

February 4, 2025

A Political X-Ray of Elon Musk

We’ve been busy here at the American EV Jobs Alliance! Right after the election we conducted, with our pals at Hill Research Consultants, a new national poll on the attitudes voters/consumers have about EVs. Unlike other market research in the automotive sector, we look at the battle to depoliticize…

January 23, 2025

EVs and the New Year – Thoughts from Mike Murphy

2025 looks like a watershed year for EVs in the U.S. and around the world. A few thoughts… Let’s start with Washington DC. We have a new President and the fight over subsidies left from the Biden administration will be big. On one hand President-elect Trump has been bashing EV…