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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). This is unusual.

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Trump promises 100% tariff on Mexico-built Chinese cars—EV or not

Baua Electric

Former President Donald Trump has announced that he would apply a tariff of 100% to cars built in Mexico by Chinese companies for U.S.-market Currently cars imported from China are subject to a 25% tariff, while those from Mexico, made with Chinese parts, would only be subject to a 2.5% automobile industry as a whole.”

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