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Honda’s New Jet Just Slipped Three Years — and the Wing Isn’t Why
Honda pushed the HondaJet Echelon from a 2028 certification to a 2031 first delivery and blamed tier-one suppliers. That one clause is the whole story.
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Ram Recalled This Truck Six Times for Bad Software. Its Engine Got 22 Reflashes and Zero Recalls.
Six of eight recalls on the 2025 Ram 1500 are software faults. The Hurricane inline-six, with misfire codes on every cylinder and 22 control-module reflashes, is not one of them.
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Stellantis Just Booked the Biggest Booth in Paris. Last Year, It Booked Its Biggest Loss Ever.
Seven months ago, Stellantis told investors it had just recorded the worst year in French corporate history: a €22 billion loss, the company’s first unprofitable year since the 2021 merger that created it, and a chief executive who was gone before the final numbers were even printed. In three weeks, that same company is opening…
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Tesla Declared Its Driverless Cybercab Street-Legal. Washington Just Opened the Books to Check.
No federal inspector ever climbed inside Tesla’s Cybercab and signed off on it before it started carrying paying passengers around Austin. That is not a gap in enforcement. It is how the United States regulates cars. Automakers certify their own compliance with federal safety standards, then wait to see if anyone objects. In September, someone…
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Volkswagen’s New Record Car Runs on an ID. Polo Motor. The Real Target Was the Battery.
The most expensive component in an affordable electric car is not the motor, the software or the screens. It is the battery. Volkswagen has just spent an entire development program demonstrating how much of one a carmaker can leave out. On September 14 in Wolfsburg, the company pulled the sheet off a very low two-door…
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BYD’s First European Semi Just Aced Its Crash Test. Europe’s Charging Grid Isn’t Close to Ready for It.
The most important number to come out of IAA Transportation this week isn’t a horsepower figure or a range claim. It’s 730. That’s how many public charging points above 350 kilowatts currently exist across the European Union exclusively for heavy trucks, according to the German Association of the Automotive Industry, the show’s organizer. Europe needs…
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Chinese Automakers Could Build Plants in America Tomorrow. They’d Still Be Banned From Selling You the Car.
There’s a comforting theory floating around Washington and Detroit alike: if a Chinese automaker just built its cars in Ohio or Alabama instead of Shenzhen, most of the political heat around Chinese EVs would evaporate. Tariffs are a geography problem, and geography can be fixed with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. That theory works fine for tariffs.…
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Four Boys Fled Two Stolen Cars in Gaithersburg. A Month Ago, the Same Scene Killed a Man in Germantown
Four boys ran into the woods outside a Gaithersburg apartment complex before dawn on Sept. 11, and every one of them beat the odds simply by not crashing. A month earlier, less than ten miles away in Germantown, a stolen car carrying kids the same age didn’t stop in time — and a man on…
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Genesis Just Donated $65,000 to Georgia Youth Groups. The Real Payoff Is a Decade Away.
Genesis wants this to read as a warm local-news item: $65,000 split across five youth groups in coastal Georgia, plus a robotics-and-design workshop for a room full of middle schoolers. That is the press release. It is not the interesting part. The interesting part is who Genesis is actually trying to reach, and how far…
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Hyundai and Kia Are Building Their Own Steel Mill. It Won’t Ship a Sheet Until 2029.
Hyundai and Kia don’t make steel. They buy it, like every other automaker, from mills that answer to no one but their own shareholders and whatever the market pays that quarter. That’s changing on a bend of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, and the reason has less to do with steel than with how nervous…
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Zoox Can Legally Build 2,500 Robotaxis a Year. It Still Can’t Charge You a Dime for a Ride in San Francisco.
Zoox holds two of California’s four robotaxi permits, and neither one allows it to take your money. The free rides in San Francisco are not a promotion. They are the legal ceiling.
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Tesla Just Set Up Shop in Vietnam. The Country’s Biggest Charging Network Won’t Let It Plug In.
Vietnam has spent the past eighteen months assembling one of the most generous electric-vehicle tax regimes on the planet. It has also allowed its dominant fast-charging network to stay locked to a single brand. Tesla has now registered a company in Ho Chi Minh City. Only one of those things is an invitation. The entity…
