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White House Touts $1 Billion Fund to Help Auto Suppliers Retool for EVs

(Reuters) – Investment firm Monroe Capital LLC said on Monday it plans to launch a fresh fund of up to $1 billion to provide loans for smaller auto suppliers as the industry shifts from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles. The White House said the fund would “facilitate access to lower cost capital for small- and medium-sized …

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China’s Global Battery Ram Will Be Hard to Stop

By Katrina Hamlin HONG KONG, Sept 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) – China’s electric cars have zoomed into a new era of battery-powered driving. Now models such as BYD’s (002594.SZ) Seal and Great Wall Motor’s (601633.SS) Funky Cat face an international backlash. The U.S. is quadrupling duties on imports of electric vehicles from the People’s Republic to …

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California’s EV Dreams Face an Awkward Reality

The state leading in vehicle electrification reckons with the costs of the energy transition and who pays for it. By Liam Denning Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.   California wants …

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P-I-V-O-T: Ford Pulls Back Further fFom EVs With $1.9 Billion SUV Pivot

The actions amount to further pullback by chief executive Jim Farley, who initially accelerated Ford’s shift to EVs Bloomberg News Ford Motor Co. is recalibrating its electrification strategy yet again, cancelling plans for a fully electric sport utility vehicle in a shift that may cost the carmaker around US$1.9 billion. In addition to scrapping an all-electric three-row SUV …

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A New Wave of Electric Vehicles Are Ready to Charge at 70 MPH

Stellantis and Mazda are among the automakers offering an antidote to range anxiety: onboard generators (the gas kind). Despite a parade of electric vehicles that can travel more than 300 miles on a charge, range anxiety remains a major hurdle to widespread adoption particularly in the US. There is, however, a “no-duh” antidote to allay fears of …

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Tesla Stages US$386-Billion Comeback as Musk Focuses on AI

Tesla stages US$386-billion comeback as Musk focuses on AI The chief executive managed to get investors to pay more mind to the automaker’s AI potential than its sluggish sales Bloomberg News This year has been a testament to Elon Musk’s ability to lead Tesla Inc.’s shares into and out of trouble. It’s been a volatile time even …

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Tesla Goes on a Hiring Spree after Musk-Ordered Mass Layoffs

Positions span artificial intelligence specialists to more run-of-the-mill service jobs Bloomberg News Tesla Inc. is looking to hire nearly 800 new employees, three months after chief executive Elon Musk hastily ordered the largest round of layoffs in the company’s history. The roles have steadily popped up on Tesla’s careers page in recent weeks, with positions spanning artificial intelligence specialists to …

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Polling Shows Likely Voters Nationally and in Battleground States Solidly Oppose Biden-Harris Gas-Car ban and Consider the Issue ‘Important’ for 2024

Washington, D.C., July 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — New polling conducted nationally and across eight presidential and senate battleground states shows strong opposition among likely voters to government policies designed to ban new gas-powered vehicles and, further, that supermajorities of likely voters say this policy issue will be important to them when deciding which elected officials to …

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Judge Who Voided Elon Musk’s Pay to Rule on US$7B in Legal Fees

The lawyers who challenged the pay plan argue that their unusual request to be compensated in stock rather than cash benefits Tesla Bloomberg News The judge who voided Elon Musk’s record-setting Tesla Inc. pay package must now make another momentous decision — whether the lawyers who took the case to trial should be paid what may be the …

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Why Americans Are Not Buying More Electric Vehicles

Tariffs on Chinese imports could make things worse by reducing competition and increasing costs Financial Times Clint and Rachel Wells had reasons to consider buying an electric vehicle when it came to replacing one of their cars. But they had even more reasons to stick with gasoline. The couple live in Normal, Ill., which has enjoyed an …

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