July 2026 NHTSA Recall Roundup: 25 Recalls So Far This Month
The first two weeks of July 2026 brought a heavy wave of NHTSA recall activity,...
NTSB Says the Tesla That Killed a Katy Grandmother Wasn’t Self-Driving. That’s Not the Relief Tesla Wants It to Be
Tesla did not build the software that killed Martha Avila. That’s the headline finding from...
Police Hit Two Salesmen With 176 Charges in a Re-VIN Scheme. The Crown Quietly Dropped Every Single One
A Toronto re-VIN scheme shows just how sophisticated auto theft in the Greater Toronto Area...
California Wrote An EV Rebate For Exactly Two Companies, And Tesla Isn’t One Of Them
California’s newest electric vehicle rebate is worth $3,500. The provision buried in its bill text...
A Two-Bay Tuffy in Indiana Just Went Bankrupt. Wall Street’s Biggest Tire Chain Almost Joined It.
Two Tuffy Tire & Auto Service locations in Fort Wayne, Indiana, are still open. The...
Toyota Just Fired Up RAV4 Hybrid Production in Kentucky. Buyers Are Already Outrunning the Assembly Line
The RAV4 is Toyota’s volume engine — the best-selling thing it makes that isn’t a...
Europe Just Regulated Brake Dust Like Exhaust — So Bosch Cut the Wire to Your Brake Pedal
A market research report making the rounds this week claims the global regenerative braking systems...
Volvo Just Beamed Apple Music Into Two Million Cars Overnight. Last Year, the Same Pipeline Beamed In a Brake Problem.
Volvo wants you to notice the music. On July 7, the automaker started pushing a...
BMW Says 29,000 Hybrids Might Catch Fire — Good Luck Finding Out if Yours Is One Before Next Month
If you own a BMW 330e, 530e, or 740Le built sometime in the last decade,...
Mexico’s ‘Electrified’ Car Boom Is Mostly Just Hybrids, and It Picked the Worst Possible Week to Look Suspicious
Mexico’s auto distributors want you to know that electrified vehicle sales are up 44% this...
Uncle Sam Just Handed Bosch $225 Million To Make EV Chips – In The Same Business That Just Bankrupted America’s Last Champion
Bosch says it just reached “a milestone.” That part is true. It’s just not the...
Stellantis Is Bragging About a 38% Shipment Surge. Its Dealers Are the Ones Left Holding the Bag
Stellantis wants the headline to be simple: North American shipments jumped 38% in the second...
Your Neighborhood Garbage Truck Is About to Start Spying on You. Your Car Already Did, and Got Fined for It.
Cape Coral, Florida is looking at a proposal to strap AI-powered cameras onto its garbage...