The Senate totaled California’s signature climate change policy — mandating new cars sold be electric by 2035 — in a 51 to 44 vote Thursday morning. Nearly every Democrat present voted against revoking the EV mandate,

At suburban districts across the Monroe County area, electric school buses were not favored by a majority of voters in several districts, though budgets received strong support from voters. In Hilton, a proposition to purchase an electric school bus failed by 44 votes, but a separate proposition to purchase 11 diesel buses passed.

The One Big Beautiful Bill, which has already passed through the Republican-led House of Representatives, would eliminate the $7,500 federal EV tax credit at the end of the year. The credit would be terminated for "clean vehicles" whose manufacturers sell more than 200,000 units in the U.S. per year.

It’s not that anyone is saying the idea behind driving more electrical vehicles is a bad one, it’s just the state’s mandate that a certain amount of them must be sold that’s shaping up to be

This week already brought us a camper loaded with solid-state battery power, and now we have a luxury EV putting its own solidified energy storage to work. BMW is road-testing solid-state batteries in the i7 electric sedan.

Pressured by legal action from seventeen states that would have been impacted, California has agreed to not just drop enforcement of its electric truck mandate, but to repeal it entirely.