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Electric Vehicles

EPA Claims ‘Overwhelming Rejection’ of EVs as It Moves to Loosen Air Pollution Rules

A proposed rule would give auto manufacturers until 2029 to meet smog and particulate matter emissions standards while the agency reconsiders the requirements altogether.

By Anika Jane Beamer

 Used EVs sit on a sales lot on March 30 in West Covina, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Graves mark the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where U.S. troops killed more than 250 Lakota men, women and children. Credit: Carla Samon Ros/CJI

How the Rush to Mine the Metal of the Future Echoes America’s Colonial Past

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow
Bernard Rowe, managing director of Ioneer, points to the site of the company’s planned lithium mine on Nevada’s Rhyolite Ridge. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

How We Tracked the Lithium Rush

By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow
The charging station at the Pilot Travel Center near London, Ohio, was set up by a partnership between General Motors, Pilot Company and EVgo, with some funding from the federal government. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

The Trump Administration Tried to Stop the National EV Charging Program. It Has Kept Rolling Along Anyway.

By Dan Gearino
Mining trucks load lithium sulfate in Chile’s Atacama Salt Flat on July 29, 2024. Credit: Lucas Aguayo Araos/Anadolu via Getty Images

How to Think About the Extractive Problem of Lithium Mining

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth
A Texas Commission on Environmental Quality investigator tested wastewater from Tesla’s Robstown lithium refinery on Feb. 12. Credit: Travis Prater/Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Independent Testing Where Tesla’s Lithium Refinery Discharges Wastewater Found Toxic Metals

By Arcelia Martin
People fill their vehicles at a gas station in Miami on Monday. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Rising Gas Prices Make the Market Ripe for Electric Vehicles, but US Automakers Can’t Seize the Moment

By Dan Gearino
A vehicle is filled with gasoline at an Exxon station on April 1 in Arlington, Va., where prices exceed $4 per gallon. Credit: Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images

Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

By Charles Paullin
A person pumps gas at a BP station on Tuesday in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

How the Iran War Reveals the Extent of Fossil Fuel Propaganda

By Lee Hedgepeth
Honda presents the world premiere of the 0 Saloon and 0 SUV prototypes at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 9, 2025. Credit: Artur Widak/Anadolu via Getty Images

The Vanishing Next Generation of US-Made EVs

By Dan Gearino
Speakers at the ComEd press conference pose in front of an electric school bus during the Chicago Auto Show media preview day on Feb. 6. Credit: Courtesy of ComEd

Illinois Utility Announces New Round of Electric Vehicle Rebate Funding for Residents and Businesses

By Sarah Mattalian
An electric school bus is parked at Coral Reef High School in Richmond Heights, Fla. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

EPA’s Clean School Bus ‘Revamp’ Means Less Support for EVs

By Marianne Lavelle
B2U Storage Solutions repurposes electric vehicles batteries which have reached the end of their automative lives to provide power to the grid. Credit: Arcelia Martin/Inside Climate News

Retired EV Batteries Scored a New Gig: Bolstering Texas’ Grid

By Arcelia Martin
The ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery is seen on Jan. 13 in Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Michigan Tries a New Legal Tactic Against Big Oil, Alleging Antitrust Violations Aimed at Hobbling EVs and Renewable Energy

By Dana Drugmand
Employees work on photovoltaic cell modules used in solar panels at a factory in Lianyungang, China. Credit: AFP via Getty Images

China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
Chevrolet Equinox EVs sit at a dealership in Southfield, Mich., on Oct. 29, 2025. Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

The First Casualty of Trump’s Climate Action Repeal: The U.S. EV Transition

By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino
People pump gas at a station on Aug. 03, 2023, in Austin, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Looking Ahead to When Gas Stations Vanish

By Dan Gearino
Electric vehicles charge at a parking lot in the Queens boroughs of New York City. Credit: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

EV Charging Program Faces the Axe in Budget Bill

By Dan Gearino

Global Energy Transition Investment Grew in 2025 Despite Major Obstacles; Here Are the Numbers

By Dan Gearino

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