Dan McCarthy

6 days ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

Tesla is still by far the biggest name in U.S. electric vehicles, but its sales are slipping amid competition and blowback to Elon Musk’s political antics. See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the week” column. For years, Tesla has been the defining EV brand in not only the U.S. but the world. That’s changing. The company’s iron grip on the U.S. EV sector began to loosen back in 2023 as competition picked up.

6 days ago | finance.yahoo.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column. For years, Tesla has been the defining EV brand in not only the U.S. but the world. That’s changing. The company’s iron grip on the U.S. EV sector began to loosen back in 2023 as competition picked up. As of the first quarter of this year, amid CEO Elon Musk’s controversial political activities, its market share has dropped to a new low. There’s no single explanation for Tesla’s slide, which comes even as EV sales in the U.S. rise.

1 week ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

But emissions from the power sector still ticked up last year amid rising demand and more fossil-fuel use. See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the week” column. Clean energy is the most popular form of energy in the world. By a long shot. More than 90% of the new energy capacity built worldwide last year was clean, per data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). That’s a new high watermark for solar, wind, and other renewable energy resources.

2 weeks ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

In the first three months of this year, firms canceled nearly $8 billion worth of U.S. clean energy projects, mostly factories, in a dramatic turn from the Biden era. See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the week” column. President Donald Trump’s attacks on federal climate policy and his supply-chain-scrambling tariffs are taking a toll on the clean-energy manufacturing boom.

3 weeks ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

Nearly 300,000 new electric vehicles were sold in the U.S. through March, up 11% from the start of last year. But the road ahead is bumpy and hard to predict. See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the week” column. The future of the U.S. electric vehicle transition is murky — but at least through the first three months of 2025, the data tells a clear story. Almost 300,000 EVs were sold in the first quarter of the year, according to a new report from Cox Automotive.