Last year Ford Motor suspended production of an electric pickup truck, shut down a battery factory in Kentucky and booked a $20 billion loss to account for its diminished plans. Then, last month, the senior executive who oversaw development of this new technology left the company. But Ford executives insist that those setbacks do not…
Costa Ricans buy more electric vehicles per person than almost any other country in the Western Hemisphere, a fact that would not surprise anyone stopping recently at the Croc Skywalk, a tourist attraction above a slow-moving river where people can gawk at sunbathing crocodiles. Numerous electric vehicles, most of them made by Chinese companies like…
Driving an electric vehicle on a road trip can be challenging enough in the United States. Would it be even possible in a country like Costa Rica? I decided to find out. Costa Rica has done more than most countries to promote electric vehicles, including passing a law in 2018 that required electric utilities to…
No one here can say exactly when it happened, but suddenly China is everywhere in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital. Compact Chinese electric cars weave through the streets. Chinese cosmetics crowd pharmacy shelves. Chinese hot pot restaurants and milk-tea chains have sprouted across the city’s many, many malls. “It’s all very sudden — they just came to…
