The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Ford has said it will restart construction on the electric vehicle battery facility it’s building in Marshall, Michigan, after pausing work when the UAW strike kicked off a couple months ago. From Ford: While we remain bullish on our long-term strategy for electric vehicles, we are re-timing and resizing some investments.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. This article may contain affililate links.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

Bird Cage Liners article this morning: Asking carmakers to comply with California’s rules would be tantamount to forcing a cancer patient to “finish chemo and then go run the Boston Marathon,&# General Motors Corp. spokesman Greg Martin said. “Right now, we’re just trying to make it through the current situation.&#.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. In addition, the lack of relevant legal or industry expertise is increasingly worrisome.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 31, 2024

The documents reportedly revealed that four Chinese firms "will be intimately involved" in the development, construction, servicing, and information technology processes for the EV battery factory Ford is building in Marshall, Michigan. But this has only made Ford’s situation more fraught with peril.& Meanwhile, U.S.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

And then, each carmaker has a different portfolio, so Ford, which still has tons of room on its EV tax credits, is in a different position than GM, which is why GM did not sign on to [the 2019 California deal] but then later did. That has been probably the biggest hurdle—not the biggest engineering hurdle, but the biggest legal hurdle.

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