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+== EV drivers will pay $130 a year under Congress’ 2026 transportation bill ==
+Politicians say they want EVs to pay “their fair share for the use of our roads.”
+Jonathan M. Gitlin – May 19, 2026 9:12 AM
+The 119th Congress might be one of the most dysfunctional and least productive legislative sessions in the 250-year history of the United States, but it seems there’s one thing it can agree on: Electric vehicles don’t cost their owners enough money. The Transportation and Infrastructure committee has published its bill to fund surface transportation for the next half-decade, and among the provisions in the “Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America’s 250th Act” is an annual fee levied against owners of EVs.
+“I’m extremely proud of the historic level of investment in America’s bridges—at more than $50 billion, it’s the largest such investment in our history. And the BUILD America 250 Act ensures that electric vehicle owners begin paying their fair share for the use of our roads,” said committee chairperson Sam Graves (R-Mo.).
+Should the bill pass—and it enjoys support from the Democratic Party, too—you will be required to pay a $130 federal registration fee to drive an EV. And starting in 2029, that fee will increase by $5 each year until it reaches $150. Plug-in hybrids don’t escape untaxed, either; the fee for a PHEV begins at $35 a year and will escalate by $5 each year until it reaches $50 annually. And if state departments of transport don’t collect this federal EV tax, the federal government will “withhold an amount equal to 125 percent of the amount owed from the state’s highway apportionment.”
+https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/bipartisan-bill-in-congress-includes-130-annual-ev-registration-fee/
+== Cheaper EV Sales are Increasing ==
+Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday June 06, 2026 05:40PM
+Sales have increased for Hyundai's under-$35,000 IONIQ 5, totalling 18,395 for the first five months of 2026, reports Electrek, "up 16% from the same period last year."
+But meanwhile BYD's overseas sales surpassed 160,000 for the first time last month, "up 80% from May 2025 and 19% from the previous record of 135,098 set in April."
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+Through the first five months of 2026, BYD sold 616,263 vehicles overseas. In May, overseas sales accounted for over 41% of BYD's total sales. In several major markets, including the UK, BYD surpassed Tesla and Kia to become the best-selling EV brand through April. "With fuel prices remaining high, more drivers are turning to electric vehicles as a smarter and more economical choice," Bono Ge, BYD UK's Country Manager, said last month.
+</blockquote>
+Elsewhere Electrek notes that Toyota's bZ (starting at under $35,000) was the third-best-selling EV in the U.S. in the first three months of 2026, behind only the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. "Last month, bZ sales doubled from May 2025, with 2,646 units sold."
+And meanwhile the first Volkswagen ID. Polo and Cupra Raval models "rolled off the production line at the Group's Martorell plant in Spain, the first of several new affordable, mass-market EVs."
+https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/07/0036228/cheaper-evs-sales-are-increasing
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+==  EV Batteries Defy Expectations, Last Hundreds of Thousands of Miles ==
+Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday July 05, 2026 05:34AM
+,000 miles on an EV battery? So says the owner of a U.K.-based used-car sales company that specializes in Evs, who tells the Wall Street Journal EV batteries keep performing well even after several hundred thousand miles. "They are proving themselves to be exceptionally reliable."
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+After five years on the road, the average EV will still be able to drive up to 95% of its original range, according to Recurrent, a data-science company that provides a battery-monitoring tool for EVs — better than many in the auto industry expected...
+Potential new car buyers' fear of having to pay for a battery replacement is the number one reason they choose to steer clear of EVs, according to a 2025 survey from industry research firm AutoPacific. When early EVs hit the market, buyers' concerns were well-founded. Roughly one in 12 EVs built from 2011 to 2016 have had to have battery replacements. But new data shows that more modern EVs are doing better so far. Among EVs built from 2022 on, 0.3% have had battery replacements, according to a 2025 study from Recurrent. As battery technology has advanced, EVs have avoided problems like the ones that plagued the original Nissan Leaf when it hit the market in 2010, for example. Those cars lacked the battery-cooling technology that is in newer EVs, and they made headlines for wearing down quickly. Buyer perception hasn't quite caught up, according to Scott Case, co-founder and chief executive of Recurrent...
+</blockquote>
+https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/05/0434229/ev-batteries-defy-expectations-last-hundreds-of-thousands-of-miles
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+===== DM-i =====
+== BYD just dropped a $16,000 car into an EV price war America can’t compete with ==
+China keeps dropping $16,000 EVs while America struggles to crack $30,000
+Vikhyaat Vivek - August 12, 2026
+China’s affordable EV market is getting ridiculously good in terms of value. Barely a day after Volkswagen opened preorders for its $17,175 ID. Era 5S plug-in hybrid, BYD has launched the 2027 Seal 06 with prices starting even lower.
+The DM-i plug-in hybrid begins at 99,900 yuan, or around $14,700, while the fully electric Seal 06 starts at 109,900 yuan, roughly $16,100. In comparison, America’s cheapest EV, the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt, starts at $28,995. That makes the Bolt almost $13,000 more expensive than the entry-level Seal 06 EV.
+https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/byd-just-dropped-a-16000-car-into-an-ev-price-war-america-cant-compete-with/
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+===== Mobility for Africa =====
+== Toyota Is Being Sued For Allegedly Stealing the Recipe For African E-Trikes==
+One of the biggest fish in the mobility world allegedly screwed over one of the tiniest.
+Mike Pearl - June 22, 2026, 5:30 am ET
+Sometimes you read an allegation of a deed so harsh, but simultaneously so low-reward, that it’s almost impossible to take it at face value. That’s the situation with a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California last month. If you take the law firm Brithem LLP at its word, a nonprofit established by Toyota called the Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF), which is run by Toyota’s executives, allegedly stole secrets from a Mauritius-based, Zimbabwe-operated electric trike company, and handed them over to a company elsewhere on the continent of Africa so that company could turn a profit while Toyota (allegedly) burnished its do-gooder image.
+According to the New York Times, the plaintiff, Mobility for Africa, is the creator of an e-trike called a Hamba, a slow-moving, three-wheeled trike with a 60-mile range, ideal for transporting agricultural goods along dirt roads from homes to marketplaces. The company is led by South Africa-based Shantha Bloemen.
+https://gizmodo.com/toyota-is-being-sued-for-allegedly-stealing-the-recipe-for-african-e-trikes-2000774899