You want to slow EV adoption to gain a competitive advantage, then that’s what you get. Musk couldn’t complain about that without being a hypocrite – though that doesn’t seem to be a big concern for him these days.

Hertz gambled and lost when it placed its big EV bet on Tesla a few years ago. It was a chance for the rental car company to shake up the industry, instead the company bought 30,000 Teslas, got scared away by depreciation and expensive repairs and now wants to get rid of them. While all those used Teslas looked to be great used car deals, it turns out high mileage EVs that were formerly rentals are horrible to own as New York Magazine reported.

In each of the heterostructures, 2D and 3D materials are layered like pasta sheets in a lasagna at an atomic level, with chemical and non-chemical bonds between each layer. The maximum thickness of the overall structure or is just 30 nanometers – around 30,000 times thinner than a human hair.

First Drive: The Lucid Air is delightfully straightforward, and the Pure trim is its most-compelling form.

Internally, there's plenty of strife at the automaker. In the past few weeks, three of Tesla's top executives resigned, one of whom departed in the middle of that eventful earnings call.

Hertz said the cost to repair Teslas was twice the cost of comparable gas-powered cars.

BYD selling more EVs than Tesla and for the first time ever at a higher profit margin. seems EV sale growth is continuing strong in China. I wonder if that's due to a cultural difference, or maybe just because they're at an earlier phase of the adoption process there? although since BYD sells like 80% of its car domestically, I would say it's not the latter.

“It’s a tribal issue,” said Mr. Murphy, who has worked for Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and other moderate Republicans. Mr. Murphy, a fan of electric vehicles, founded the EV Politics Project to try to get Republicans to stop bashing them — a lonely struggle.

“If you can’t crack the Republican problem there is no way you can get to these targets,” Mr. Murphy said, referring to the E.P.A.’s emission goals. “They are going to run out of Democrats.”

Toyota announced this week that it is closer than ever to manufacturing solid-state batteries for its future electric cars.