The $20,000 Used Car Didn’t Disappear. Automakers Discontinued It
Ask a dealer why a three-year-old Camry costs about what a loaded new one cost...
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How Europe Calculates a Billion-Euro Truck Penalty Without Testing a Single Tailpipe
Fines for emissions usually mean somebody got caught cheating. Not this time. Daimler Truck’s problem...
Inside the $280 Million Bet on the Paint Layer Your Body Shop Can’t Match
Paint plants don’t usually get much attention from enthusiasts, which is a shame, because the...
Florida’s Flying-Car Test Track Is the Headline. The Robotaxis Already on I-95 Are the Real Story
Florida’s governor stood in front of a hangar in Auburndale this week and talked about...
Flock Wanted 350,000 Uber and Lyft Dashcams to Spy for It. Nobody Behind the Wheel Would Have Known.
The dashcam mounted on your Uber driver’s windshield was sold as a witness. A silent,...
California’s New EV Rebate Comes With an Escape Hatch, and Only Tesla and Lucid Fit Through It
Sacramento wants this to read like a feel-good story: walk into a dealership, buy your...
The 1966 Loophole Behind California’s Emissions Power, and the Senate Push to Kill It
Four short resolutions dropped in the Senate on August 6, and none of them read...
Musk’s Terafab Will Run on Its Own Gas Plants and Battery Banks
SpaceX has told Grimes County that its enormous new chip plant will not be plugging...
Huawei Promised It Would Never Build A Car. It Didn’t Have To – It’s Already Running 25 Of Them
Huawei’s founder has put his signature on a promise, more than once, guaranteeing his company...
Tesla’s ‘Insane’ Mode Is On Trial For A Salon Crash. It Shouldn’t Be The Only Defendant
A Tesla Model Y ended up inside an Arlington, Virginia hair salon this month, and...
BYD Filed Six New Solid-State Battery Patents, But the Real Story Is Whether Two Rocks Actually Touch
Forget the six patents for a moment. The most interesting number in BYD’s newest solid-state...
California’s New EV Rebate Just Went Live. The Automaker It Was Written For Didn’t Show Up
California flipped the switch today on a new $3,500 discount for first-time electric vehicle buyers,...
Lotus Unveils a Hybrid V8 Supercar to Save the Brand. The Real Story Is the Chinese Factory Running at One-Fifth Capacity
Lotus wants the headline this week to be about a supercar. A new hybrid V8...
Hertz Investors Sue After a 40% Wipeout — the Fleet Math Behind the Collapse
On June 24, Hertz told the market two things at once: that demand was fine,...
A Lotus Got Impounded for Hitting 140 MPH on I-15. The Real Shock Is How Little Engine It Took.
A Lotus got towed off the 15 Freeway near Temecula on Saturday, and the scariest...