Colorado Has a Massive Home-Grown Crypto Crime Problem

A Chinese crypto service called Xinbi Guarantee, an online marketplace for laundering money, for-hire harassment, hacking rings, and sex trafficking, was hiding in plain sight in Colorado — until crypto-tracking group Elliptic caught wind of the operation. According to the firm’s latest report, Xinbi’s business was mostly conducted through the freewheeling messaging site Telegram, where… Continue reading Colorado Has a Massive Home-Grown Crypto Crime Problem

How Donald Trump blew the offshore wind industry off course

New wind farms are still being built, but they’ll have to weather the storm of the Trump administration. Rewind a few years, and it looked as if offshore wind might take off in the US. The Biden administration moved to open up much of the nation’s coastlines to development, blue and even a couple swing… Continue reading How Donald Trump blew the offshore wind industry off course

Honda pauses planned EV factory in Canada amid tariff war

Honda announced that it is pausing about $15 billion in planned EV investments to build electric vehicle and battery factories in Canada amid uncertainty over trade. It’s the latest example of Canada’s backing the US plan backfiring. A few years ago, Canada sided with the US in its plan to save the US auto industry,… Continue reading Honda pauses planned EV factory in Canada amid tariff war

Toyota confirms the all-electric compact C-HR is coming to the US

The compact crossover will get 290 miles of range and put out 338 horsepower. But don’t call it a hot hatch. The compact crossover will get 290 miles of range and put out 338 horsepower. But don’t call it a hot hatch. Andrew J. Hawkins is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers… Continue reading Toyota confirms the all-electric compact C-HR is coming to the US

Nissan pulls the plug on +$1 billion EV battery plant and more as the alarm bells go off

As it scrambles to turn things around, Nissan is scrapping plans to build a new LFP battery plant in Japan. The facility was expected to be key to reducing EV battery costs to keep up with leaders like BYD. With alarm bells ringing, Nissan is preparing to cut 20,000 jobs, or about 15% of its… Continue reading Nissan pulls the plug on +$1 billion EV battery plant and more as the alarm bells go off

GOP tax bill helps its biggest donor Musk, but harms his company, Tesla

Republicans announced a new tax plan today and it’s just about as bad for America as expected, taking money for healthcare, clean air and energy efficiency from American families and sending it to the ultra-wealthy instead. You might think that this helps one of those ultra-wealthy, Elon Musk, who gave hundreds of millions of dollars… Continue reading GOP tax bill helps its biggest donor Musk, but harms his company, Tesla

Tesla employees try to oust Elon, a new Volvo, and Micah’s close call

On today’s episode of Quick Charge, it’s back to your regularly scheduled news programming with reports that Tesla employees are getting fired for asking Elon to step down as the new Model Y flops hard in the global marketplace. We’ve also got a new electrified Volvo XC70 and Micah has a close call with the law!… Continue reading Tesla employees try to oust Elon, a new Volvo, and Micah’s close call

Clean Technica: Shaq Ditched His Tesla Cybertrucks For This New EV — And Why004017

Sign up for CleanTechnica’s Weekly Substack for Zach and Scott’s in-depth analyses and high level summaries, sign up for our daily newsletter, and/or follow us on Google News! To those of us who grew up in the ’90s, Shaq (Shaquille O’Neal) is an iconic name. He’s LARGE and was a dominant force in the NBA,… Continue reading Clean Technica: Shaq Ditched His Tesla Cybertrucks For This New EV — And Why004017