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We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
EVs Are Out, Gasoline Power Is In At GM’s Orion Plant
Don’t look now, but General Motors is pulling the plug on building EVs at its Orion facility in Michigan. Confirming the news yesterday, it will instead assemble an array of light-duty pickup trucks and the Cadillac Escalade, said to be all part of a $4 billion push to meet demand for gasoline-powered vehicles in this country.Local media, specifically The Freep (Detroit Free Press) were among the first to report on the story.
Related: EV pickup truck sales in the U.S. in Q2 2025, according to new Cox Auto data
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Brian Kingston, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association (CVMA) states while heading into meeting with Carney
"Well, the EV mandate itself is not sustainable. The targets that have been established cannot be met, and that will be… pic.twitter.com/4lKjp7DvPJ
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) July 2, 2025
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Seal His Coffin With Pig Grease
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday confirmed that they had “eliminated” one of the founders of Hamas in a joint operation with the Israel Security Agency (ISA).
Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa, a senior figure in Hamas’ military wing, was killed in Gaza City in an airstrike in the Sabra on Friday, the IDF said.
Issa’s current role in the Hamas military wing was as head of combat support headquarters, and he led force-buildup efforts in the Gaza Strip, served as head of the training headquarters and was a member of Hamas’ General Security Council.
He played a “significant role in the planning and execution of the brutal October 7th massacre,” the IDF said, and over the past few days he has helped plan attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip.
Issa was also attempting to rebuild Hamas’ organizational systems that were damaged by Israel during the war.
The IDF said it had also killed Abbas Al-Hassan Wahbi, a Hezbollah terrorist, in the area of Mahrouna in southern Lebanon on Saturday.
Small Dead Animals
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Canada’s EV mandate must be repealed, Ford Canada CEO says
Ford Canada CEO Bev Goodman said June 10 that Canada’s zero-emission vehicle mandate must be repealed as the consumer appetite for electric vehicles falls dramatically short of government requirements.
“The targets on full battery-electric vehicles need to be aligned with what customers want, and customers have spoken,” she said at the Canada Automotive Summit, hosted in Vaughan, Ont., by the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to a fire on board the 600-foot car carrier Morning Midas carrying hundreds of electric vehicles approximately 300 miles off the coast of Alaska.
The vessel departed from Yantai, China on May 26 with destination Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico where it was expected on June 15. According to shipping database Equasis the 2006 Morning Midas is owned by Hawthorn Navigation Inc. out of London with management by Zodiac Maritime Limited.
Zodiac Maritime has confirmed the vessel is loaded with around 3,000 vehicles, 800 of which are electric vehicles. Smoke was initially seen emanating from a deck carrying electric vehicles, according to the statement.
Related: The decommissioned buses are said to be a mixture of electric-powered and gas buses in that lot, but it’s unclear which are burning currently burning.
(h/t Joe, Kenji)
Diversity Is Our Strength
Turban Crush.
Footage goes viral of a bus driver playing games on his phone during a route from Edmonton to Calgary with The Canada Bus. pic.twitter.com/MFk2tPFAM1
— YEGWAVE (@yegwave) May 28, 2025
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We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Ford EV sales “fall off a cliff”.
The left spent the last 20 years pushing electric cars as a moral imperative. Once the batsignal went out that was okay to torch and vandalize Musk’s cars because they don’t like the cut of his jib, that also signaled that earlier moral imperative has been concluded. Why would anyone go through the headache of owning an electric car when its true believers hate one of its most prominent manufacturers?
“Multiple layers of safety precautions failed that night,”
Post Millennial- Black Hawk pilot Rachel Lobach ignored instructions before mid-air collision over Potomac River
Air traffic controllers had warned the helicopter crew about a nearby passenger airliner, and both Lobach and Eaves acknowledged the warning, opting to proceed under “visual separation.” This is a method where pilots are allowed to continue flying in the area by using their own observations rather than adhering to instructions from air traffic control.
The report said the Black Hawk was only 15 seconds from crossing paths with the passenger jet when Eaves informed Lobach that he believed air traffic control wanted them to turn left toward the east river bank.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
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Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself
And neither did Virginia Giuffre, maybe. Or maybe she did.
The 41-year-old appeared with a bruised face last week when she posted an Instagram video saying her car had been hit by a speeding school bus as she slowed for a turn.
She said: “I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.
“I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time…”
Police said they had received a report of a “minor crash” between a school bus and a car in Neergabby, about 12 miles from Perth, on 24 March.
“The collision was reported by the bus driver the following day,” said a spokeswoman. “There were no reported injuries as a result of the crash.”
A few days after the Instagram video, it emerged Ms Giuffre had been charged with allegedly breaching a family violence restraining order.
Ms Giuffre is reported to have separated from her husband. The case was due back in court today (9 April)
No Shift, Sherlock
A recent survey from AutoPacific has suggested that drivers aren’t terribly pleased with some of the technology that’s being installed into modern vehicles, particularly the features that are designed to police behavior.
Dispatches From the Maple Gulag Truck Stop
Gord Magill takes an in depth look at the problems that lead up to the recent crash on I-35 in Austin Texas, killing 5 people.
Recently, a horrific collision took place along Interstate 35 in Austin, Texas, where a commercial transport traveling at high speed crashed into a number of stopped vehicles along a stretch of the interstate that was under construction. 5 people were killed, including an infant and very young child, and another eleven people were sent to hospital, many with critical injuries. It turns out that the driver of the truck, a gentleman by the name of Solomun Weldekeal Araya, was a very recent migrant from Ethiopia that only had his commercial drivers license a scant four months.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
New York City: A man found dead on the R train early Wednesday morning was robbed by a female passenger — and later sexually violated and robbed again by a male passenger, police said.
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
Regina’s Transit Budget:
Transit Security: $0
Electric Buses: $27 million pic.twitter.com/GxJ1sY1JUu— Just Bins (@JustBins) April 3, 2025