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Nevada Just Cleared Tesla for 5,000 Robotaxis in Vegas — More Than Tesla Has Ever Run Anywhere, Combined
Nevada’s transportation regulators just gave Tesla permission to run 5,000 driverless robotaxis around Las Vegas. Read that number again. Five thousand. That’s more autonomous vehicles than Tesla has ever operated in any state, in any year, combined. The same company currently running a Robotaxi service so small it barely shows up on a state DMV…
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GM 6.2L V8 Engine Failures: What the Federal Investigation Documents Actually Show
There’s a specific kind of trouble an automaker gets into when federal regulators stop asking whether a defect exists and start asking whether the fix works. General Motors is in it. The Office of Defects Investigation opened Recall Query RQ26001 on January 16, and the language in the opening resume is unusually blunt for a…
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Geely’s Solid-State Battery Promise: The Numbers Behind the 500 Wh/kg Headline
Geely Holding says it will begin pilot deployment of solid-state batteries across its brand portfolio in 2027, with real-world validation already running this year. The company’s stated target is up to 500 Wh/kg, a range figure comparable to diesel-powered cars, and packs that could stretch across Geely, Zeekr, Lynk & Co, Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, Smart,…
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Hemmings Unleashes A Wild Dirty Donny Mustang Tee For Mustang Week
Mustang Week just got a serious shot of tire smoke and Kustom Kulture attitude. Hemmings has teamed up with pop-culture artist Dirty Donny Gillies for a limited-edition Mustang T-shirt that looks ready to leap off the fabric. The artwork puts Donny behind the wheel of a blown first-generation Ford Mustang, with smoke flying, the tires…
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Trump Threatens 50% Tariffs on All Cars in 2027, But His Post Never Actually Says Canada
Read Donald Trump’s Monday morning tariff threat closely, and something is missing. He posted that starting January 1, 2027, tariffs on cars, trucks, automotive parts, and steel would rise to 50 percent. Every outlet that covered it called this a tariff on Canada. His own sentence never uses that word. That gap between what everyone…
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BMW’s Driveshaft Problem Is Back — And Some Owners Could Lose Their Rear Wheels
BMW of North America filed a safety recall with federal regulators on August 12 covering 27,720 vehicles across the 2022-2026 840i and 840i xDrive, the 2021-2023 540i, 540i xDrive and M550i xDrive, and the 2024-2026 750e xDrive. The campaign, logged as 26V525, lands under the powertrain category with a defect description that takes eleven words…
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Kia Telluride Battery Drain Lawsuit: What the Federal Complaint Actually Says
A Maryland man who paid $229.45 to be told nothing was wrong with his SUV has turned that repair order into a proposed nationwide class action against Kia America. The class action complaint, filed June 3, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California as case 8:26-cv-01428, accuses Kia of selling…
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A Stolen Porsche Put a Melbourne Flower Farmer in the Hospital. The Anti-Theft Tech Worked Perfectly
The Porsche that crossed onto the wrong side of EastLink and hit Paul Broussard’s van head-on at 2am had a factory engine immobiliser. It worked exactly as designed. That is precisely why three people allegedly had to drive to a house in Bentleigh, walk up a stranger’s driveway, and hold a knife on a 44-year-old…
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A Stolen 1971 Chevelle Came Home After 33 Years. Now Its Owner Has to Prove It Exists
CHP recovered a 1971 Chevelle stolen from San Mateo County in 1993. The registration, insurance and title problems start now.
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Houston Won ‘Worst Road Rage City in America.’ Here’s What Your Insurance Won’t Cover.
Houston didn’t win an award this week. It topped a new ranking of the worst cities in America for road rage, and by the next morning the story had done its lap around local news: a shocking statistic, a scary sound bite, a tidy list of safety tips, then on to the next segment. That’s…
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The White House’s Auto Manufacturing Victory Lap Included a Company That Doesn’t Make Cars
The White House is crediting tariffs for Ford’s decision to stop importing the Lincoln Nautilus from China. The tariffs are real, but the deadline came from a national-security rule finalized days before Trump’s second term began.
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Volkswagen Wanted Tariffs to Keep Out Cheap Chinese EVs. The Cheapest One in Germany Showed Up Wearing Four Rings.
Somewhere inside Volkswagen Group’s tariff lobbying operation, someone owes a colleague an apology. For two years, Volkswagen has argued to Brussels that Chinese manufacturers can build an electric car for meaningfully less money than a German factory can, and that without countervailing duties, European automakers would lose the affordable-EV fight before it started. The European…
