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...
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A Naked Fire Truck Joyride In Wisconsin Exposed More Than The Driver, Watch
Just before 1 a.m. on a Tuesday in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, a woman walked up...
Mercedes-AMG’s Metal Badge Is So Fancy It’s Allegedly Branding Owners Like Cattle
Two Southern California drivers have handed the auto industry a real-world lesson in a problem...
Japan’s Earthquake Barely Touched Honda’s Closest Factory. A Plant 600 Miles Away Still Can’t Build A Civic
Honda’s factory in Ozu, Kumamoto, sits close enough to the epicenter of Japan’s July 28...
SRT Says It Just Cured Turbo Lag. What It Actually Cured Is Stellantis’s Hemi Guilt
Stellantis spent seven weeks and, from the sound of it, a battery small enough to...
Škoda’s New Flagship EV Has Flush Door Handles and a Panoramic Roof. That’s Not the Story.
Škoda’s new Peaq flagship SUV comes with flush door handles, a panoramic roof with electronic...
Stellantis’s CEO Used To Run Quality Control. Ram Just Recalled 1.27 Million Trucks On His Watch.
Ram just recalled 1.27 million trucks. Buried in the same federal paperwork is a number...
Toyota And Hyundai Got Caught Tracking Drivers. GM Already Put A Price On It: $25 Billion.
Five years before Australian regulators opened a file on Toyota and Hyundai, General Motors stood...
A Cadillac Did Donuts at a Michigan Wedding and Got Impounded. It Might Be Home Before the Honeymoon
Dearborn Heights police impounded a Cadillac CT5-V in late July after investigators say its driver...
Cars.com Just Had a Record Quarter – By Politely Admitting Fewer People Are Showing Up
Cars.com told investors this week that it just posted the fastest revenue growth in its...
Canada’s $28 Million Car Theft Bust Has a Twist: Nobody Actually Stole Anything
No smashed window. No screwdriver jammed into a steering column. No key fob relay box...
Kia’s New Mexican-Built EV3 Can Charge Another EV3 on the Roadside. That’s Not a Feature — It’s a Confession
Kia flipped the switch on a new assembly line in Nuevo Leon this week, and...
GM Drove Hands-Free From Coast to Coast in Canada. It Left the Five-Year Federal Data Ban Out of the Press Release.
GM Canada spent this summer driving a fleet of Chevrolets, Buicks, GMCs and Cadillacs from...
Ford Named Its Cheap Electric Truck Fathom. The Real Story Is What Ford Had to Break to Build It
Ford gave its cheapest electric vehicle in company history a name this week: Fathom. A...
This Week at The Auto Wire: Full Recap (August 3–7, 2026)
A day-by-day look at everything The Auto Wire published this week, Monday, August 3 through...