In the News

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May 6, 2025

Why 35 House Democrats Joined Republicans Against a Major Climate Policy

Check out this recent article in The New York Times discussing the strange political bedfellows of the California EV transition policy. Though it’s not clear that Congress can strip California of their waiver to create such policy, 25 Democrats crossed over with Republicans in a recent vote to…

March 16, 2025

CNN: Will Republicans buy EVs from Elon Musk?

Check out Michael Smerconish’s recent segment on the influence of Elon Musk and Tesla on the EV transition. He cites our data as well as his own lived experience in this great analysis. Watch below!

March 14, 2025

NPR: Elon Musk is winning Republican fans. Can Tesla win them over, too?

It’s been a wild couple of weeks for the politics of EVs. Somehow it all led to Donald Trump selling Tesla’s on the White House front lawn? How do these events change our thinking of the ever-present political divide on EVs? Is Elon still uniquely positioned to close the…

March 4, 2025

Directly Current Episode 17: The EV Transition is Messy, But Inevitable ft. Mike Colias (Author, WSJ)

Mike Colias has spent years reporting on the auto industry’s strained efforts to shift to electric vehicles. The move is effectively mandated by governments worldwide, and has recently been an issue of political division stateside. Nonetheless, longtime rivals Ford and GM have both thrown much of their institutional weight behind…

February 28, 2025

Inside EVs: How To Save EVs From Politics

Catch Mike on Patrick George’s can’t-miss show, where he talks about our recent polling and the current state of the politics of EVs. Click below, and find Mike at the 25 minute mark.

February 27, 2025

Tesla Feels the Wrath of Anti-Elon Musk Backlash

Check out some of Elon data referenced in this great Bloomberg article discussing the Elon impact on Tesla sales around the world.

February 18, 2025

Directly Current Episode 16: EV Charging’s Rapid Improvement with Tom Moloughney (State of Charge)

Tom Moloughney — the host of State of Charge on YouTube and cohost of the Batteries Included Podcast —is the go-to guru for EV charging. He’s covered EVs since the BMW Mini E program in the late 2000s. His reviews are great resources for picking the right “Level…

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…

February 4, 2025

Directly Current Episode 15: Rep. Ro Khanna on Industrial Policy, EVs Under Trump

Ro Khanna is the Democratic House representative of CA-17, better known as Silicon Valley. He’s a popular progressive candidate, serving his fourth term, but he’s also pro-business. He wrote a book on American entrepreneurship and manufacturing, taught at Stanford, and was once close with tech titans like Elon Musk.

January 22, 2025

Directly Current Episode 14: Gasoline Superusers and State Policy with Matthew Metz (Coltura)

Directly Current returns for the new year in the wake of a new inauguration. Matthew Metz is a former trial lawyer and environmental advocate who’s discovered a dirty secret at Coltura: the people who drive the most in the country, often Republican, stand to save a lot of cash at…

December 11, 2024

Directly Current Episode 13: Holiday EV Shopper’s Guide With Tax Credits In Jeopardy

To round out the end of 2024, Max does a solo episode to break down all the nerdy goodness of the existing Inflation Reduction Act’s 30d Clean Vehicle Credit for new and used vehicles. Translation: how you might get an EV with $7,500 for the holidays before Trump potentially axes…