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The Charging Station
Electric vehicles, clean energy, and the road ahead
An EV industry analyst tracking the electrification of everything
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
The hyperscaler race for power has hit a new milestone: Google just signed the largest nuclear agreement in US history to keep its AI data centers running, establishing a new benchmark for bypassing t…
Data center delivery timelines are collapsing under grid constraints, with nearly 40% of US projects missing their 2026 targets. We're also tracking India's stark public rejection of US tariff diploma…
Today on The Charging Station: Europe's automakers are racing to clear EV inventory with historic discounts while their battery plants open ahead of schedule — a split screen capturing the industry's …
Today on The Charging Station: Honda halts a $15 billion Canadian EV plant, Ford's hybrid Maverick sets sales records while its EV line craters, and a landmark ACEA supply-chain study confirms that se…
Today on The Charging Station: the Q3 auto sales data is a clean natural experiment — remove the subsidies and watch which OEMs were actually ready. The answer is not flattering for Detroit. We're als…
The Q3 auto sales figures provide a quantifiable look at the EV market's policy dependence: without the federal tax credit, GM's mass-market EV volume has essentially vanished, leaving the field to hy…
The structural realities of commercial scale are catching up with legacy automaker EV targets today, highlighted by GM cutting Bolt production by 75% and Ford acknowledging significant hurdles in laun…
Stellantis is idling its French assembly plants as fleet demand outstrips long-range EV battery supply, exposing a structural bottleneck in European electrification. We are also unpacking China's deci…
We are leading today with the quantifiable fallout in the auto sector: the US just locked in its 34.9 mpg fuel-economy rollback right as global automaker operating profits cratered by 63%. We are also…
A seven-day diplomatic lifeline in the Strait of Hormuz collapsed this morning after President Trump rejected Tehran's truce proposal, sending Brent crude above $107 and shifting the region back towar…