Writer for Electrek.co. EV driver since 2009. Tired of social media misinformation & hoping its better here (but tbh never liked twitter anyway so I probly won't spend much time here but we'll see)https://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3mdjga2o5ys23Musk just suggested that autonomous Cybertrucks could be used to ship goods around cities. Perhaps he needs a little help from this childhood toy to figure out why that's not a great idea.28 Jan 2026 23:24 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdjga2o5ys23https://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3ma4kwvv4gc25EU reducing its EV targets is a dumb idea, no matter how minor the change. Automakers are celebrating this and media is calling it a win for them, but it is in fact a loss: all it does is ensure China will be more dominant in the inevitable move towards electrification. https://electrek.co/2025/12/16/eu-bends-to-automakers-pleas-to-let-them-lose-the-ev-race-to-china/16 Dec 2025 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4kwvv4gc25https://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m7lcbjqisc2uListening in on a conference call and the *first* media question starts "With EV demand softening..." which is, of course, not true. These are supposed to be the people informing you of things, and they can't bother to look up one number over the course of several years to find out theyre wrong. https://electrek.co/2025/11/12/ev-sales-still-have-not-fallen-cooled-slowed-or-slumped-media-is-lying-to-you/09 Dec 2025 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7lcbjqisc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m5hbjxp74s2qI'm so tired of reading these false headlines for 2 years now. 2 new lies from Nikkei Asia this week (re: Toyota/Subaru pausing EV plans due to "slowing demand," when demand is in fact still rising) broke the camel's back, so I rewrote this article, once again, in the hope they'll all stop lying. https://electrek.co/2025/11/12/ev-sales-still-have-not-fallen-cooled-slowed-or-slumped-media-is-lying-to-you/12 Nov 2025 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5hbjxp74s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m4yoiurlbc2zDuring the Tesla shareholder meeting, a questioner said all the people in the room are "Tesla soldiers... I mean Elon Musk soldiers," then asked about how it is to run Tesla as a public company. In response, Musk called shareholders "parasites." They cheered.06 Nov 2025 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4yoiurlbc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m4eg5zhdx22qI don't think "no CEO on earth that would accept this package" is the ringing endorsement you think it is, Kimbal. (yes, this is the actual screenshot quality from Tesla's SEC filing. No, I'm not going to twitter to take a better one)29 Oct 2025 21:44 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4eg5zhdx22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m4e2t3iolk2qMore American jobs killed and sent to China by republicans https://electrek.co/2025/10/29/more-trump-auto-job-losses-as-gm-blames-3300-layoffs-on-regulatory-changes/29 Oct 2025 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4e2t3iolk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m3ssypbyv22tElon Musk says Optimus will 'be an incredible surgeon' and 'imagine if everyone has access to an incredible surgeon' Feel like having a nazi tell you that everyone will have a robot that can cut you open in their house isnt quite the utopia Elon thinks it is.22 Oct 2025 21:45 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ssypbyv22thttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m3i63gbvtc2oThe deeper you look into Musk's proposed $1 trillion stock award, the more ridiculous it gets https://electrek.co/2025/10/18/elon-musks-1-trillion-stock-award-gets-more-ridiculous-the-more-you-look-into-it/18 Oct 2025 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3i63gbvtc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m33pvmkp622oAfter I wrote this, Tesla, which does not have a PR department and does not pay for advertising, retained a "stakeholder strategy firm" who emailed me to "set the record straight" and attack shareholders concerned about having their shares diluted for a bad CEO and captured board. Weird stuff. https://electrek.co/2025/10/02/investor-group-calls-to-vote-down-musks-1t-pay-package-replace-tesla-board/13 Oct 2025 17:19 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m33pvmkp622ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m2s36pn3dk2oTesla, a company that doesn't buy ads, is paying for ads to shill a $1T award for its bad CEO. Some ads attach his award to Tesla employees' ability to own a home, or host a quinceañera for their daughter. The last seems particularly exploitative, given Musk's constant white supremacist statements. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000110465925098386/tm252289d33_defa14a.htm09 Oct 2025 21:14 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2s36pn3dk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m2kl4cwm522q@tobysaunders94.bsky.social Your "121 random fun facts that will blow your mind" includes uncontextualized anti-wind disinformation. It is wrong to mention bird fatalities without mentioning the literal millions more bids killed by fossil fuels. Thus, wind saves bird lives in comparison. Please fix https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421509001074?via%3Dihub06 Oct 2025 21:38 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2kl4cwm522qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m2kl2wkfts2q@tomhowarth.bsky.social Your "121 random fun facts that will blow your mind" includes uncontextualized anti-wind disinformation. It is wrong to mention bird fatalities without mentioning the literal millions more bids killed by fossil fuels. Thus, wind saves bird lives in comparison. Please fix. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421509001074?via%3Dihub06 Oct 2025 21:37 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2kl2wkfts2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m25hvnxt5c2h@hurwitz.bsky.social A correction for your recent ebike article. EV brakes do not "produce more microplastic," because EVs barely use their brakes. In fact, EVs produce far less total tire and brake dust than gas cars do (slightly more tire, much less brake - and brake is more dangerous than tire) https://electrek.co/2025/05/27/another-way-electric-cars-clean-the-air-study-says-brake-dust-reduced-by-83/01 Oct 2025 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m25hvnxt5c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3m25hrmqmxs2h@mrmattsimon.bsky.social A correction for your recent ebike article. EV brakes do not "produce more microplastic," because EVs barely use their brakes. In fact, EVs produce far less total tire and brake dust than gas cars do (slightly more tire, much less brake - and brake more dangerous than tire) https://electrek.co/2025/05/27/another-way-electric-cars-clean-the-air-study-says-brake-dust-reduced-by-83/01 Oct 2025 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3m25hrmqmxs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3ly4ihsm3gc2fI find this story developing north of the border fascinating, wherein right-wing Canadian provinces are begging for cheap Chinese EVs because of a dispute over... cooking oil. https://electrek.co/2025/09/05/canada-may-get-cheap-chinese-evs-because-of-cooking-oil-heres-why/05 Sep 2025 20:23 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly4ihsm3gc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lxs23rro4c27Fun fact: Despite America being the reason for Int'l Labor Day (May1) existing, which commemorates the Haymarket Massacre where Chicago police shot on labor demonstrators, US Labor Day is in Sept because US is so scared of socialism that it invented a fake holiday on May1 instead ("Loyalty Day")01 Sep 2025 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxs23rro4c27https://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lvotl6mrdc2o@katieglass.bsky.social Hello! I see your article about veganism which notes uncritically the dairy-industry misinformation that almond milk is exceptionally bad for the environment In fact, you should target dairy milk! It is worse in all ways, including water use, than almond milk is. Data here! https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks05 Aug 2025 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvotl6mrdc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lvnboq5mis2oHappy with the response to this article. Go leave a comment to the EPA if you think the plan to delete science in order to raise your fuel/health costs to pad oil industry profits is a bad one. (also hilarious to see people say I'm wrong here - the 76c/gal number comes from *your* guy, republicans) https://electrek.co/2025/08/04/epa-opens-public-comments-on-plan-to-hike-gas-prices-by-76c-gal-kill-thousands/05 Aug 2025 08:21 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvnboq5mis2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lvjwz4ezqk2oSome readers have taken issue with my characterization of ICE's "papers, please" actions in LA as "nazi-like." I mentioned them to explain why the Tesla Diner, owned by a white supremacist, might not be popular in the city where ICE's illegal actions are happening. What do you think, Bluesky? https://electrek.co/2025/08/02/the-tesla-diner-has-been-open-for-12-days-and-its-going-kinda-rough-so-far/04 Aug 2025 00:32 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvjwz4ezqk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lv5anas35k2qChief Saboteur of the EPA, Lee Zeldin, just announced his intent to raise fuel prices by $.76/gal, to benefit the oil industry who gave him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to get him into his current position. https://electrek.co/2025/07/29/energy-depts-own-numbers-say-todays-rollback-would-raise-fuel-costs-by-76c-gal/29 Jul 2025 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv5anas35k2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lt5sauiffk2orepublicans signed the death warrant for the US auto industry this week, with the passage of a bill that kills 2 million US EV jobs. They won't kill EVs as a whole, which will continue to grow, but they will harm this country's manufacturing base, and benefit China. https://electrek.co/2025/05/24/republicans-wont-defeat-evs-but-in-fighting-them-may-kill-us-auto-industry/04 Jul 2025 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt5sauiffk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lt3fnoqu6s2oRepublicans have voted to send 2 million US jobs to China, and to inflate your fuel, energy and healthcare costs. https://electrek.co/2025/07/03/senate-votes-to-send-2-million-us-jobs-to-china-increase-deficit-energy-costs/03 Jul 2025 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt3fnoqu6s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lshg77bi7s2tI'm not a self-driving luddite, I actually quite like autonomous vehicle tech. And there are positives to be taken from Tesla's launch. But the growing library of errors in just a few days is troubling - especially with the cars operating in a regulatory vacuum. https://electrek.co/2025/06/25/whoopsie-uh-oh-oh-my-heres-all-the-gaffes-and-goofs-by-tesla-robotaxi-so-far/25 Jun 2025 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lshg77bi7s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lr5ihpqlqs27On the issue of "police declare an unlawful assembly," some might try to recall one of the reasons this country exists in the first place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Act#Proclamation_of_riotous_assembly09 Jun 2025 03:59 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr5ihpqlqs27https://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lqvkzxqlo22ePick a side! I pick neither! https://electrek.co/2025/06/05/tsla-drops-14-as-investors-see-corruption-being-priced-out-of-tesla-stock/06 Jun 2025 00:24 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqvkzxqlo22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lpwt7qqkws2mRepublicans are trying to kill EVs, and they're not going to succeed. However, what they will do is harm US industry, and surrender the lead we could have had to China - where there is no similar effort to strangle its domestic auto industry. https://electrek.co/2025/05/24/republicans-wont-defeat-evs-but-in-fighting-them-may-kill-us-auto-industry/24 May 2025 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpwt7qqkws2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3lprn747q6c2uRepublicans scream from the rooftops that they want to kill you, no matter how illegal it is https://electrek.co/2025/05/22/republicans-in-congress-illegally-vote-to-end-clean-air-rules-they-cant-actually-end/22 May 2025 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprn747q6c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jamesondow.bsky.social/post/3loym4ovt5s22They've finally done it. They've found the "killer app" of Artificial Intelligence. How did we ever shop for underwear before this?12 May 2025 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:k2tgo5xtyoq5gp2icynk2w5b/app.bsky.feed.post/3loym4ovt5s22