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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 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…

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…

March 18, 2025

Directly Current Episode 18: How To Make EV Charging Profitable ft. Stable CEO, Rohan Puri

Gas isn’t profitable—Coca Cola is, or so goes the conventional wisdom. Nonetheless, fuel is still somewhat profitable for the Exxons of the world. But in the land of EV charging, most providers aren’t operating functional standalone businesses they’re beset by under-utilized hardware and over-reliant on incentive programs to make the…

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.