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Honda Is Burying 150-kW Wireless Chargers Under Japanese Highways, and Big Rigs Are the Target
A 20-ton electric delivery truck has to haul its own fuel tank, and that tank is a battery: heavy, expensive and slow to refill. Honda’s idea is to leave part of that battery in the road. On October 5, Honda announced the project alongside construction giant Taisei Corporation and its paving subsidiary Taisei Rotec. Together…
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A 30-Mile Buick GNX Just Sold for $427,000, More Than Double What It Brought in 2024
Do the math on Buick GNX #450 and it gets uncomfortable quickly. The black 1987 coupe sold for $427,000 on Bring a Trailer in late September with 30 miles on the odometer. That works out to roughly $14,233 for every mile the car has covered since it left the factory. The buyer didn’t pay for…
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Car Thefts Are Down in All 50 States This Year. Chicago Apparently Didn’t Get the Memo.
There’s a rare kind of crime statistic: one where every column points the same way. The National Insurance Crime Bureau’s midyear numbers are one of them. Police logged 268,415 vehicle thefts nationwide from January through June. That’s 21% fewer than the same stretch of 2025, and all 50 states posted a year-over-year decrease. The national…
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Every Major Car Recall From the Last 60 Days, in One Place. Go Check Your VIN.
Jeep, Ram, Ford, GM, Toyota, Volkswagen and Rivian lead a busy 60 days of car recalls. Here is every major recall from Aug. 9 to Oct. 8, 2026, and how to check your VIN.
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California Just Kneecapped the Montana LLC Trick. Dodge the Tax Now and the Bill Follows You Home.
SB 1406, signed Sept. 30, makes members of out-of-state shell companies personally liable for unpaid use tax on cars, RVs, boats and planes used in California.
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The Next Honda CR-V Hybrid Is Reportedly Running Late, and So Is Honda’s Plan for a Cheaper Hybrid
Nikkei reports Honda’s redesigned CR-V hybrid won’t start U.S. mass production until May or later. That delays the first payoff from Honda’s cheaper hybrid system, with CR-V supply already at 17 days and Greensburg’s Civic future unanswered.
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Police Say a Stolen Car Hit a Baltimore Cruiser, Rolled Off Driverless and Burned. A New Law Won’t Change Where the Teen’s Case Goes.
Police say a car flagged as stolen hit a Baltimore cruiser, rolled driverless and burned. Maryland’s new youth charging law doesn’t change where the teen’s case goes.
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Honda Wants to Charge Your EV Through the Road, and It’s Squaring Off With Toyota on a Japanese Expressway
Honda has spent five years figuring out how to push electricity through asphalt into a moving vehicle. Now it says the core hardware works. The harder part comes next: proving that the hardware survives years of loaded trucks driving over it at expressway speed. On October 5, Honda R&D announced that it had developed the…
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Sunset Auto Sold a Mustang With No Title. The Refund Took 500 Days and a Prosecutor.
Two Wichita buyers got $20,600 back from Sunset Auto Sales’ surety bond, but only after a prosecutor sued and the insurer’s first answer was no.
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Nissan Lost 152,000 Sales in Five Months. China Ate 115,000 of Them.
Nissan’s global sales are down 12.1% this fiscal year, and three-quarters of the drop is China. Its forecast now needs an 8% rebound by March.
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ZF Is Ending 120 Years of Steering Production in Lafayette. The Engineers Get to Stick Around.
ZF’s WARN notice counts 133 jobs at its Lafayette steering plant, down from about 200 a year earlier, while the R&D center at the same address stays open.
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Missouri Driver Beat a Speed-Trap Headlight Ticket in Federal Court. In California, Flashing After Dark Can Still Cost $247.
A Missouri driver beat a speed-trap headlight ticket in federal court. In California, flashing high beams after dark can still cost $247 and a DMV point.
