Electric Vehicles

Florida has $41 million left from a fund to "replace diesel emission sources with cleaner technology" — but doesn't want to spend it on electric vehicles.

Long lines at chargers. Range anxiety on road trips. Stretches of interstate with few, if any, charging stations. They’re all big concerns if you drive an electric vehicle in South Florida or just about anywhere in the state.

While a Florida lawmaker says "we need to embrace the technology while also ensuring safety," one clean energy advocate disagrees with tacking on fees to EVs drivers.

In the rollback of former President Joe Biden’s climate policies, the Trump administration pumped the breaks on more than $4.7 worth of charging station projects in Miami-Dade and put an end to a plan for a nationwide, interconnected charging network designed to ease those fears.

Not every EV flooded by storm surge goes up in flames but it’s become frequent enough that insurers, car makers, fire chiefs and politicians have all issued warnings to EV owners in advance of the expected devastation of Hurricane Milton. And it’s not just cars that are a concern.

The state has been sitting on nearly nearly $110 million in federal funds intended to install fast charges and it’s not yet clear if it will meet a fast-approaching deadline that would free up another $88 million.

The city of Hallandale Beach has proclaimed itself the first in South Florida go with a 100% electric bus fleet.

The Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency, along with U.S. Energy and Interior secretaries, visited South Florida to highlight White House climate policies.

For many drivers of EVs in Florida — the nation’s second largest market for electrical vehicles — premature tire wear has become an unexpected black mark on vehicles promoted as a green climate-friendly option to gas-gulping cars.

A MAST middle schooler helped the Miami school district land 50 electric buses to replace ones that spew diesel exhaust.

The 4th District Court of Appeal overturned a Broward County circuit judge’s decision that Musk should be deposed about a phone conversation with James Riley, whose 18-year-old son, Barrett Riley, was driving the Tesla Model S and died alongside a passenger in the 2018 Fort Lauderdale crash.

The Senate Transportation Committee on Wednesday backed a proposal (SB 28) that would require electric-vehicle owners to pay $200 registration fees to try to offset anticipated losses in gas-tax dollars as more people convert to electric and hybrid vehicles.