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Tesla’s Shanghai Mega-Factory Is Taking a Mysterious Two-Week Vacation Right Before It Might Get Sold Off
Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai has never taken a real Chinese New Year holiday. Not once, not since it opened. That changes this coming January, and the size of the change tells you more than the holiday itself does. According to an internal production schedule reviewed by Reuters, Tesla will run its Shanghai plant at reduced output…
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What Tesla’s Fort Bend County Solar Filing Actually Says About Jobs and Timing
A single PDF sitting on the Texas Comptroller’s server has been getting turned into headlines about a $10 billion factory and nearly 10,000 jobs. Both numbers are in the document. Neither means what the summaries suggest. Here’s what actually happened: on July 22, Tesla’s associate general counsel for U.S. tax signed a JETI application asking…
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Flock Just Rewrote Its Privacy Rules. It Still Can’t Stop A Typo From Turning A Press-Fleet Range Rover Into A ‘Stolen’ Car
Somewhere in Los Angeles this past June, someone at a Jaguar Land Rover dealership misplaced a manufacturer license plate during a photo shoot, filed a report, and moved on. Whoever entered that report into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center dropped part of the plate number. That single clerical slip, made two time zones away,…
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Why Driver-Assist Sensors Get Blamed for Repair Costs They Didn’t Cause
Every enthusiast has had the moment. Somebody taps your front bumper in a parking lot, the cover looks fine, and the estimate comes back north of three grand. Behind that painted plastic sits a radar module, a couple of ultrasonic pucks, maybe a corner lidar, and a camera up in the windshield header that now…
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Ford Ends Lincoln Imports From China by 2030 — What It Means for Nautilus Owners
Read Ford’s statement from Wednesday evening carefully and the most interesting thing about it is what isn’t there. No plant. No investment figure. No model name. The word “Nautilus” appears exactly zero times. What Ford did say is that it will grow Lincoln production in the United States beginning in 2030, and that Lincoln will…
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Leno’s Law Faces Its Deadline: What SB 1392 Really Changes for Classic Car Owners
California’s collector-car smog bill is once again sitting in the same room where its predecessor died, and the reason has almost nothing to do with tailpipes. Senators Dave Cortese (D-San José) and Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) staged a rally on 10th Street outside the Capitol on Wednesday morning, August 12, with 15 to 20 classic and…
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Polestar Blamed Washington For Its U.S. Exit. One Dealer Says That’s A Convenient Excuse — And Wants $25 Million To Prove It
When the federal government tells a car company it can no longer sell its product in the United States, that usually ends the conversation. Polestar is discovering it doesn’t — not for the people who spent years and millions of dollars building dealerships to sell the thing. On August 13, a New Jersey Polestar retailer…
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Toyota’s Tacoma TRD Off-Road Got the Bargain Shocks — And 48,000 Owners Are Now Finding Out Why
Toyota just told 48,000 Tacoma owners that the shocks on their truck can rot from the inside and drop parts on the road. The obvious story is corrosion. The more interesting story is why a two-year-old truck platform already runs three completely different suspension systems depending on which TRD badge you paid for — and…
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Kansas City Cops Pulled Over a Stolen Car and Found Two Baby Goats in the Trunk. The Real Crime Wasn’t Grand Theft Auto
Kansas City police found two baby goats in a stolen car’s trunk. The real story isn’t the rescue, it’s why record meat prices are turning stolen cars into disposable livestock haulers.
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A Georgia 911 Director Got Arrested for Misusing Flock Cameras. She Didn’t Need to Sneak In — She Ran the System.
Heidi Taylor didn’t have to hack anything. She didn’t need a stolen login, a borrowed badge number, or a friend on patrol willing to run a plate for her off the books. As the 911 director for the Dallas Police Department in Paulding County, Georgia, she was the person other people in that building went…
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Hyundai’s AI Numbers, Decoded: What 90 Percent Faster Crash Review Really Means
Automakers have spent three years announcing AI the way teenagers announce gym memberships. Hyundai Motor Group just did something rarer: it put numbers on the board, in public, with the specific workflows attached. Some of those numbers are more impressive than they look. Some are considerably less. The occasion was an internal showcase at the…
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Your Next Car’s Biggest Winner Won’t Be the Company on the Hood
Somewhere in an engineering office in Stuttgart or Santa Clara, someone just booked a very good decade. You’re going to pay for it. The badge on your next car won’t say who. That’s the part the latest industry forecast doesn’t put in the headline. This week, research firm MarketsandMarkets published one of those projections built…
