• Britain Taxes EVs By The Mile — America Is Next

    Britain Taxes EVs By The Mile — America Is Next
    The pitch for electric cars always leaned oncosts. No fuel taxes, no trips to the pump, cheaper miles. Britain took that pitch, wrote it into policy, and championed the switch to battery power. Now the treasury has noticed the obvious problem: every electric car on the road is a customer who no longer pays fuel duty, and fuel duty is a very large number.The response is a new mileage-based charge on electric and plug-in vehicles. For the average British battery-electric driver it works out to ro
  • Chrysler's Survival Plan: Rebadged Fiats At $25K

    Chrysler's Survival Plan: Rebadged Fiats At $25K
    For the better part of a decade, Chrysler has been a brand kept on life support, its lineup shriveled down to the Pacifica minivan. There was serious talk of killing it off entirely or converting it into some vague "mobility business." Now Stellantis has a different idea: turn Chrysler into the cheap option. Back in May, Stellantis laid out plans for its brands during a financial markets presentation and confirmed three new Chrysler crossovers to join the Pacifica. Those are now known as the Ar