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Tesla’s Recalling Nearly 5 Million Cars In China Over Door Handles It Still Won’t Redesign
Tesla just told Chinese regulators it will fix nearly five million cars without a single technician touching a single vehicle. That sentence says more about how recalls work now than anything else in this story. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation disclosed Friday that Tesla will recall 2.98 million China-made and imported Model 3, Model…
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Fatal Crashes Climb 15% When a Blockbuster Album Drops, Harvard Data Shows
Somebody finally found a way to measure distracted driving without asking drivers to admit they were doing it. Four Harvard-affiliated researchers — Vishal Patel, Christopher Worsham, Michael Liu and Anupam Jena — published a study in JAMA Network Open on August 17 arguing that U.S. traffic deaths jump on the days major music albums drop.…
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EPA Killed Vehicle Carbon Rules — Now a Supreme Court Case Complicates the Next Move
Here’s a regulatory knot worth untangling, because the same statutory argument that erased every federal greenhouse gas rule on your car is now working against the government in a different courtroom. Start with what’s already done. On February 18, EPA published a final rule at 91 FR 7686 rescinding the 2009 endangerment finding and repealing…
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A Free, Harmless Recall Just Cost Stellantis 6% of Its Stock in a Day. The Camera Was Never the Charge.
Nobody got hurt. Nobody has to visit a dealer. The fix downloads overnight, the same way a phone app updates itself. And on Thursday, that recall helped knock roughly six percent off Stellantis stock in a single session, dragging shares to their lowest level in close to a decade. If you’re waiting for the part…
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State EV Rebates 2026: What Buyers Get After the Federal Credit Died
Washington switched off the federal EV faucet on September 30, 2025. The New Clean Vehicle Credit, the used-EV credit, and the commercial credit all went away for vehicles acquired after that date, and the IRS has been blunt about it ever since — those credits are no longer available, full stop. Congressional Research Service records…
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GM Crammed 721 Horsepower Into a Corvette With a Battery the Size of a Cordless Drill
The Number Nobody’s Talking About Chevrolet just started building the least Instagrammed, most quietly important Corvette in a decade, and the number that matters most isn’t on the window sticker. It isn’t 721 horsepower, either. It’s 1.9 — as in kilowatt-hours, the entire capacity of the battery pack that turns a Corvette Grand Sport into…
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A 127.5% Tariff Still Couldn’t Kill Waymo’s Chinese Robotaxi Bet — Here’s the Math That Makes It Worth It
Somewhere at the Port of Los Angeles, Waymo has been quietly paying a bill that should make Detroit nervous for entirely the wrong reason. Since 2024, the company has imported 3,200 Chinese-built electric vehicles to serve as robotaxis, absorbing a 127.5% Chinese robotaxi tariff on every single one. That’s the kind of tax that turns…
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Pony.ai Promised Europe More Robotaxis Than It’s Ever Built. Who Owns the Ones That Don’t Exist Yet?
Somewhere inside a routine filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sits a sentence more revealing than anything in last week’s press release: vehicle funding and ownership can shift from partner to partner depending on the market. That’s corporate language for something simple. When one of these robotaxis eventually collides with a cyclist on…
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A Nearly Free Recall Just Tanked Stellantis Stock 4% — Its Own Paperwork Explains Why
Wall Street didn’t punish Stellantis this week for a broken camera. It punished the company for admitting, again, that it doesn’t have much room left for mistakes. Shares slid nearly 4% this week, sliding toward roughly $5.15, after Stellantis told federal regulators it was recalling something like 955,000 vehicles worldwide, about 848,000 of them in…
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Britain Has No Law Against This: Arnold Clark Just Ate a 65-Year Family Dealership Whole
There’s a SEAT and CUPRA dealership in Uddingston, Scotland that changed its name this month. That’s the entire news event. A dealership sign came down, a new one went up, and the paperwork closed on a business that had been selling cars from the same corner of Glasgow’s suburbs for roughly 65 years. The company…
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Sub-$20,000 Used Cars Are Basically an Endangered Species — Only 1 in 9 Three-Year-Olds Survives
A three-year-old Camry saved you $8,033 in 2019. It saves you $4,171 now. The real story in the iSeeCars data is not price, it is a broken depreciation curve.
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Colorado Finally Figured Out How Long Teen Driver’s Ed Should Take. Every Other State Just Shrugged.
Colorado just told teenagers that getting a driver’s permit will soon require sitting through 30 hours of driver’s education. Local coverage treated that number like the headline. It isn’t. Starting January 1, 2027, Colorado’s HB24-1021 will require anyone between 15 and 17 to complete a 30-hour driver education course, which can be taken online, before…
