New car sales are down again for the seventh month in a row. Which means they’ve been slipping all year long so far. The last time it was this slow was about ten years ago, which was the last time the car business fell down and almost couldn’t get back up again. Several factors are in […]
46 Blog Posts From the Electric Vehicle Tag
Crushed Every Four Years
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September 22, 2019
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Auto Industry, DRIVERLESS CARS, Electric Vehicle, Eric Peters, Ridesharing, SAFETY, Technology
If you’ve been wondering what’s behind the electric car/automated car push, Ford’s John Rich just let the cat out of the sack: “We will exhaust and crush a car every four years in this business.” That business being the automated/electric car business. Rich should know since he’s the head of Ford’s Autonomous Vehicles Operations. He means automated, […]
The Road User Charge by Any Other Name: NMA E-Newsletter #555
September 2, 2019
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Electric Vehicle, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, GPS TRACKING, Infrastructure, NMA, PRIVACY, REVENUE GENERATION, Road User Charge, VMT, VMT Tax
We recently completed a series of newsletters (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) about the renewed calls for levying a set of surcharges–or thinly disguised taxes–on motorists to help rescue the Federal Highway Trust Fund. National calls are picking up in momentum for the implementation of a system of travel fees layered on top […]
War on Cars Watch for August 28, 2019
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August 28, 2019
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ACLU, Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, DMV, DRIVERLESS CARS, DUI/DWI, Electric Vehicle, Fuel, Insurance Companies, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, NMA, Predatory Towing, racial profiling, REVENUE GENERATION, Road Diets, Road User Charge, SAFETY, Speed Limits, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion, TRAFFIC STOP, VISION ZERO, VMT, VMT Tax
____________________________________________________________________ Special Announcement: Our friend and guiding light for the War on Cars Watch, James C. Walker, the NMA Foundation Executive Director, and staunch advocate of motorists everywhere has died. He will be sorely missed with his always unique angle in his commentary on this very blog. To learn more about his life, click HERE. […]
The Car That Almost Was
In the department of What Might Have Been, we find a car almost no one who isn’t a car industry insider has ever heard of — but which very nearly was. You haven’t heard of it for good reason. Well, good reason from the point of view of other insiders—the ones inside the government. It is a car […]
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