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A city with little transit, LA wants to host a ‘no-car’ 2028 Olympic games: here’s how

With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games wrapping up, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass is in town to prepare the world for what the 2028 Olympics will look like in Los Angeles.

And one thing she’s promising, in a big surprise to everyone’s who’s even heard about the city of LA, is a “no-car Games,” using public transport instead of private cars to get around.

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Dem VP pick Walz is ‘climate champion,’ unlike Musk-backed GOP EV haters

Democratic U.S. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced her VP pick this week in Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who has recently passed laws supporting Minnesota’s transition to carbon-free power and lower tailpipe emissions.

However, the CEO of the nation’s largest EV company, whose personal and corporate mission is supposedly to ensure a transition to sustainable transport, is still backing a ticket that routinely lies about EVs and wants to subsidize polluting gas vehicles.

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Tesla will change the world in 6 ways next year, says serial overpromiser Musk

Tesla held its quarterly report yesterday, and stated that six major products would be ready for action next year. This would suggest that Tesla has a truly historic year coming up for it, set to disrupt trucking, affordable EVs, sportscars, taxis, driving in general, and, oh, just all human work.

But we’ve heard all this before, and forgive us for saying that it seems slightly more likely that the boy is crying wolf.

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Trump says he’ll end the EV mandate. The only problem: there isn’t one.

At tonight’s Republican National Convention speech, Donald Trump declared that he’ll “end the electric vehicle mandate.” The only problem is, there is no electric vehicle mandate.

The regulations he’s talking about are probably the most recent EPA regulations, which notably do not mandate electric vehicles at all. Those regulations were supported by Tesla – whose CEO just committed $180 million to the same person who seems to know nothing about the industry Tesla operates in.

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Just after his huge stock grant, Elon Musk commits $45M/month to harm EVs

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who said he would stay on the sidelines during this election, will spend $45 million per month to elect Donald Trump, a presidential candidate who has repeatedly targeted EVs during his campaign and who has promised to end EV incentives in exchange for a billion dollars in bribes from the oil industry.

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Only 4% of TV news correctly connected Hurricane Beryl to climate change

The 2024 hurricane season is here, and we’ve already had our first record-breaking hurricane in Beryl, which caused billions in damage and deaths in Texas, Grenada, Venezuela and nearby areas.

Importantly, climate change helped this storm break these records and do so much damage. But if you watched the news, you likely didn’t hear about that.

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