Ford Motor Company revealed this week that it lost more than a hundred thousand dollars for every electric vehicle that it sold during the first quarter.
Published: Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 @ 2:47 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A Wake County grand jury handed up an indictment Tuesday against North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood for allegedly using a state vehicle for private purposes.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 @ 11:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Cooper visited a bus facility in Durham to highlight the recent significant federal funding for electric school buses in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 11:33 am
By: Governor's Office
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Washington, D.C. — Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. issued the following statement after voting in favor of S.J. Res. 38, to overturn the Federal Highway Administration’s rule relating to ‘Waiver of Buy America Requirements for Electric Vehicle Chargers.’
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2024 @ 11:25 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Tech giant Apple has reportedly ended its decade-long pursuit to enter the electric vehicle market after spending billions of dollars on the effort known as Project Titan.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2024 @ 6:00 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Federal EPA funds from the Biden Administration will put new electric school buses on the road in NC
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2024 @ 11:18 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Mercedes-Benz is scrapping its plans to only sell electric vehicles after 2030 as consumer demand for EVs remains lower than what automakers projected.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2024 @ 11:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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Epsilon Advanced Materials (EAM), India’s leading battery materials company has announced a $650 million investment in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 @ 1:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office has received nineteen reports of Breaking and Entering of Motor Vehicles in the Washington area along the River Road corridor and US 264 West corridor since December 1, 2023.
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 10:09 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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On Wednesday, Oct. 11, the House Oversight and Reform Committee listened to representatives from the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) over multiple concerns, including outsourcing driver’s license production to a Canadian company.
Published: Saturday, February 10th, 2024 @ 9:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Vinfast issued an earnings report for the second quarter of 2023 on Thursday, and the news is not good for the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker.
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2024 @ 1:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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electric vehciles do not perform well in the cold (or in flooding)
Published: Saturday, January 6th, 2024 @ 10:51 am
By: John Steed
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VinFast, the electric vehicle maker with plans to open a $4 billion manufacturing plant in Chatham County in 2025, has sold 11,300 vehicles during the first half of 2023.
Published: Tuesday, December 26th, 2023 @ 5:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that North Carolina was selected as a partner in the EVeryone Charging Forward™ program, a $30-million, 10-year initiative of the Siemens Foundation.
Published: Saturday, December 23rd, 2023 @ 2:16 am
By: Governor's Office
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Thousands of American auto dealers are pushing President Joe Biden to scrap his electric vehicle mandate because consumers are not warming up to buying EVs for various reasons.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2023 @ 12:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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do any of these apply to you?
Published: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 1:36 pm
By: John Steed
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Two recent headlines grabbed my attention. The first was the announcement that Toyota, having already announced a major project to build batteries for electric vehicles in Randolph County, has expanded their plans.
Published: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 9:55 am
By: Tom Campbell
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While construction on its $4 billion plant is underway in Chatham County, Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast began trading on the Nasdaq Tuesday as Black Spade Acquisition Company shareholders agreed to approve the merger with VinFast Thursday.
Published: Sunday, November 12th, 2023 @ 11:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Seven people were killed, and at least two dozen others were injured on Monday when a dense “super fog” over New Orleans severely limited visibility for drivers on an interstate and caused a massive multi-car pileup, authorities said.
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2023 @ 12:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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VinFast, the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker Democrat North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper credited for leading an army of clean-energy companies coming to the state, is being criticized for polluting waterways near its $4 billion EV manufacturing plant in Chatham County.
Published: Saturday, November 4th, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis‘ administration took a shot at the Biden administration in a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg this week
Published: Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 @ 11:30 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The groundbreaking on what is being called the “crown jewel of VinFast’s global expansion” occurred Friday morning at the site of the $4 billion EV manufacturing plant in Triangle Innovation Point, in the Chatham County town of Moncure.
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 9:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A church scheduled for demolition to make way for VinFast’s new $4 billion EV plant in Moncure, Chatham County, may be saved after all.
Published: Saturday, October 21st, 2023 @ 5:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that cars were “going electric” whether the people were ready to go along with them or not.
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 @ 7:32 pm
By: Daily Wire
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VinFast is scheduled to break ground on its $4 billion EV production plant in Moncure, Chatham County next week.
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2023 @ 9:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper grilled Ford CEO Jim Farley during an interview this week about the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike that is impacting America’s big three automakers.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 8:36 am
By: Daily Wire
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Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast continues to produce a mixed bag of news.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 12:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of Congress announced an investigation into Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s summer road trip through the southeast United States with a fleet of electric vehicles.
Published: Saturday, October 7th, 2023 @ 11:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Biden administration‘s efforts to promote electric vehicles hit a roadblock during Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm‘s summer trip through the southeast United States.
Published: Monday, October 2nd, 2023 @ 4:09 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Biden has a couple of problems. Electric vehicles aren’t flying off the lot. Autoworkers’ unions are mad at him for pushing EVs which could kill their jobs. So, what’s Biden’s administration’s solution to this two-tiered conundrum?
Published: Monday, September 25th, 2023 @ 6:41 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Not even Mainers want to be California — at least that’s the takeaway after Pine Tree State residents slammed a proposed statewide crackdown on fossil fuels this week.
Published: Thursday, September 14th, 2023 @ 7:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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After Hurricane Idalia slammed into Florida last week, reports of electric vehicles catching fire after coming into contact with floodwaters began to emerge.
Published: Monday, September 11th, 2023 @ 7:36 am
By: Daily Wire
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In a new piece in the Daily Mail, the well-known science writer explains why he’ll be buying a new gas powered car before the UK’s electric vehicle mandate goes into effect in 2030.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2023 @ 11:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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More troubling news for VinFast, the Vietnamese electric vehicle maker that wants to build a $4 billion EV production plant in Chatham County.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2023 @ 10:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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