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Owners of Teslas can upgrade their vehicle without Autopilot for $2000 between now and July 1. On July 1, FSD Autopilot will increase in price by $1000 to $8000. All new Teslas ship with basic Autopilot standard. Tesla Model 3: The Complete Guide Tesla Autopilot Manual Leaked via Twitter Tesla Autopilot Adds Summon Remote-Parking Ability […] More

The Pacific Northwest is being hit by an unprecedented heat wave, with temperatures in Portland rising above 110 degrees for two straight days.The Oregon State Fire Marshal temporarily suspended the state’s ban on self-service gas stations, which will help protect gas-station clerks from the heat.Oregon’s law that prevents customers from pumping their own gas, introduced in 1951, will resume on Tuesday evening.The Pacific Northwest is in the midst of a merciless heat wave. Temperatures in Portland, Oregon, reached 112 degrees on Sunday, a record high since documentation began in 1940, before setting a new peak on Monday at 115 degrees. (The state’s average for this time of year is in the 70s.) This unexpected and overwhelming heat has now led Oregon to announce a temporary change to the state’s regulations that prohibit customers from pumping their own gas. On Sunday, the Oregon State Fire Marshal announced that Oregonians are now permitted to fill up their own cars—but only until the evening of Tuesday, June 29. Governor Kate Brown approved the temporary suspension.

Oregon is one of two states that don’t allow customers to pump their own gas. (The other is New Jersey.) The law was first introduced in 1951, when many states had similar statutes and gas-station pumps had fewer safety measures. Self-service became widespread in the 1970s, accelerated by gas shortages that made the shorter wait times and cheaper prices of self-service more attractive, but Oregon’s law has persisted. The state has instituted exceptions for certain areas, such as remote, rural regions and tribal lands.During the brief period when the ban is lifted, many Oregonians will have to figure out how to get gas on their own, possibly for the first time in their lives. Although this means that gas station customers will have to exit the air-conditioned cocoon of their vehicles to top off the tank, this change is more likely geared at protecting the gas station attendants from potentially standing on black asphalt in sweltering temperatures for hours.
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The Sierra Club has surveyed the plug-in-vehicle shopping landscape and found that we still have a long way to go to make more EVs available in more areas.In 2022, you could only find an EV at 34 percent of all the auto dealers in the U.S., and less than half of those who didn’t have one were interested in selling one if they could get it.In ZEV states, where laws are in place to force higher levels of EV sales in the coming years, more dealers there want EVs to sell than elsewhere. Looks like the laws are slowly working.To the surprise of absolutely no one who’s been shopping for an electric vehicle the past few months, there aren’t all that many EVs out there. We now have data to back up the stream of anecdotes about five-figure dealer adjustments and people selling their spots in line on the near-endless waiting lists for some models. The Sierra Club released a report this week called “A Nationwide Study of the Electric Vehicle Shopping Experience,” and, well, things could be better out there.To learn about the EV landscape for the new study, Sierra Club staff and volunteers contacted more than 800 dealerships across the U.S. between June and November 2022. They determined that only 34 percent of car dealerships in the U.S. had any EVs for sale during the survey period in 2022. Of course, supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic made shopping for all kinds of products challenging these past few years, and new cars were certainly affected. Despite that, less than half (44 percent) of the 66 percent of dealers who did not have an EV for sale said they would sell EVs if they could get any.Tesla dealer in Florida.UCG|Getty ImagesBroad Definition of “EV”Before we go on, for this study, the Sierra Club counts both battery-electric and plug-in hybrids as EVs. While we usually differentiate between those powertrains, we will use EV as a catch-all for this article to refer to both types. The shopping experience survey is a follow-up to the Sierra Club’s 2019 report called “Rev Up.” Shopping ListEV availability varies by region, of course, and there’s an interesting thing happening in California and the 15 states that have adopted California’s zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandates. The ZEV states differ in how they will implement their versions of the various rules, but the important part here is that these laws set clear targets for future EV sales levels. States that follow California’s Advanced Clean Cars II program, an August 2022 update to the ZEV rules, for example, require 100 percent EV sales by 2035. The ZEV states, therefore, already are and can be expected to continue to be leaders in the shift to electrification. But when the Sierra Club broke down its findings, it found that the dealer landscape was almost precisely the same in ZEV states and those without these future mandates. The nationwide number of dealers with an EV was 34 percent. In ZEV states, it was 35 percent.What Do Dealers Think of Selling EVs? Where the ZEV states differ is how dealers feel about selling EVs. Dealers with no plug-in vehicles to sell were likelier to wish they did in ZEV states than others. While the national average was 44 percent, it was 52 percent in ZEV states and just 41 in the non-ZEV states. In other words, while the supply chain and production constraints affected dealers nationwide, the people it mattered to were in states that said they will force more EV sales in the coming years.Solutions to the EV drought have to come from the companies that build the cars, the Sierra Club said. Despite the many, many billions that have already been pledged to shift the bulk of new-car sales to electrified vehicles in the next decade or so, it’s not enough, apparently. “It is the responsibility of manufacturers to deliver more EVs to all dealers,” the report said. “The ultimate conclusion is that automakers must invest more in EV production to match consumer demand that is at a record high.”This content is imported from poll. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.Contributing EditorSebastian Blanco has been writing about electric vehicles, hybrids, and hydrogen cars since 2006. His articles and car reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Automotive News, Reuters, SAE, Autoblog, InsideEVs, Trucks.com, Car Talk, and other outlets. His first green-car media event was the launch of the Tesla Roadster, and since then he has been tracking the shift away from gasoline-powered vehicles and discovering the new technology’s importance not just for the auto industry, but for the world as a whole. Throw in the recent shift to autonomous vehicles, and there are more interesting changes happening now than most people can wrap their heads around. You can find him on Twitter or, on good days, behind the wheel of a new EV.  More

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office A pair of patent applications filed by Ford with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office appear to involve features for the upcoming Bronco’s roof. The first patent is for a removable roof structure that gets rid of the B-, C-, and D-pillars as well as roof rails and crossbeams, providing […] More