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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 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 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…

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 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…

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 27, 2024

Update: EVgo station in LA

OK, here’s an update on the EVgo “Walking Dead” station Robertson Blvd in Los Angeles! Progress! You may remember our post on this site earlier this year, and I’ve been carping about this for months. A really nice EVgo station with like 9 charging bays, sitting there behind…

December 26, 2024

In the New Year… Part II

Happy Holidays! Once we return from the holiday season, the EV Politics Project will be releasing an updated version of last year’s nationwide EV poll. The 2024 election cycle moved the numbers on some key questions regarding consumer sentiment on EVs, our competition with China, and what people…

December 18, 2024

NYT: How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S.-China Relations

Thomas Friedman recently wrote about his trip to China. We suggest you read the whole piece, but we thought one section was particularly relevant for our mission and work. “Trump has vowed to make America great again by doubling down on drill-baby-drill gas guzzlers and …