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Hansae Mobility Is Dropping $93 Million in Chesterfield. Michigan’s Measly $625,000 Grant Has Nothing to Do With It.
Hansae Mobility’s $93.2 million move to Chesterfield Township isn’t chasing a $625,000 state grant. It’s beating an auto-parts tariff offset that expires April 30, 2027.
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Suffolk County Didn’t Just Bust a Street Takeover. It Ran the Math on One.
Four people from Meriden, Connecticut, drove roughly two and a half hours to a business park in Yaphank, New York, early Sunday morning — and left with a truck, a trailer, a race car, and a set of criminal charges instead of a highlight reel. That’s the part of this story that’s easy to skim…
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A $3,359 Exhaust Won’t Make the Charger Sixpack Sound Like a V8 — the Noise You Want Is in the Crankshaft
MagnaFlow rates its own Charger Sixpack system MODERATE outside and MILD inside — and excludes sound from the warranty. The V8 burble comes from a crankshaft, not a tailpipe.
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Copart Just Dropped $1.9 Billion on ACV. It Didn’t Pay for the Auctions.
Copart announced a $1.9 billion deal for ACV Auctions on the same day it reported a flat fiscal year. The marketplace is not the asset. The 850 inspectors, the patented engine microphone and the pricing data are.
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Volkswagen Built the World’s Most Efficient EV Out of Hatchback Parts, Then Explained Why You’ll Never Own One
Volkswagen set a 0.158 drag record with ID. Polo hardware and found 40 percent more efficiency without a bigger battery. The catch is the shape of the car.
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Today in Automotive History: September 18, 2015 — The EPA Catches Volkswagen Cheating on Emissions
On September 18, 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency sent Volkswagen a five-page letter that would end up costing the company more than $30 billion, push out its CEO within a week, and rewrite how regulators test a tailpipe. The letter was a formal Notice of Violation of the Clean Air Act, and it accused Volkswagen…
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China Set a Real Deadline for Self-Driving Cars. America’s Still Handing Out Permission Slips One at a Time.
Nine Chinese ministries just set a 2030 deadline for autonomous vehicles, backed by a mandatory safety standard. Ten weeks earlier, NHTSA withdrew its only proposed AV oversight programme.
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Trump Says Chinese Automakers Can Build Here. The Rule Blocking Them Has Nothing to Do With Factories.
A Commerce Department rule bars China-owned automakers from selling connected vehicles in the U.S. no matter where they are assembled. The factory was never the obstacle.
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Congress Couldn’t Kill This 2013 Rule, So the EPA Just Sent It Back for Round Two
The Congressional Review Act gives Congress 60 days to kill a rule. The EPA reopened that window on waivers from 2009 and 2013 by resubmitting them — and a federal judge has now called it out.
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Allstate Booked the Rental Car. A Lawsuit Says It Then Refused to Pay Its Own Rate.
A federal class action says Allstate picked the rental company, negotiated the rate and made the reservation — then reimbursed less than the bill. The shortfall is small on purpose, and the reason it is hard to fight says more about third-party claims than any number in the complaint.
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BMW X5, X6, X7 Owners Sue Over Front Differential Fluid That Was Never Supposed to Need Changing
Automakers love the word “lifetime” because it sounds like a promise and works as an excuse to leave a line off the maintenance schedule. A new federal lawsuit argues that for BMW’s biggest SUVs, that line should have stayed. A Pennsylvania class action filed against BMW of North America claims the front differentials in xDrive-equipped…
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Tesla Has 80,000 Superchargers and Still Doesn’t Have the Ones Its Own Robotaxis Need
Tesla’s Supercharger network was sized around how people charge. A driverless fleet does not behave like a person — and Texas records show exactly how large that fleet currently is.
