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Kia’s New Mexican-Built EV3 Can Charge Another EV3 on the Roadside. That’s Not a Feature — It’s a Confession
Kia flipped the switch on a new assembly line in Nuevo Leon this week, and the crossover rolling off it is getting treated as the headline. It isn’t the interesting part. Bolted onto that launch, almost as an afterthought, is a V2V mobile charging service that lets one EV3 hand a slice of its battery…
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GM Drove Hands-Free From Coast to Coast in Canada. It Left the Five-Year Federal Data Ban Out of the Press Release.
GM Canada spent this summer driving a fleet of Chevrolets, Buicks, GMCs and Cadillacs from Victoria, British Columbia, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, letting the vehicles handle nearly the entire route with their hands off the wheel. The automaker says it’s the first time Super Cruise, its hands-free driving system, has covered a compatible highway network…
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Ford Named Its Cheap Electric Truck Fathom. The Real Story Is What Ford Had to Break to Build It
Ford gave its cheapest electric vehicle in company history a name this week: Fathom. A midsize electric pickup, arriving in showrooms in the fall of 2027, starting at roughly $28,000. That was the headline everywhere. It’s also the least important part of the story. The detail that should have made headlines was buried a few…
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New Jersey Police Dressed Up As Bushes To Catch Texting Drivers
A police officer in Dunellen, New Jersey spent six hours this week standing inside a hedge, dressed as a hedge, waiting for drivers to look down at their phones instead of the road. It worked. Seventy-four people got cited in a single shift. It’s a fun local news story. It is not, however, a story…
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Washington Yanked 24,000 Truckers Off the Road and Called It a Safety Win. Then It Started Begging Veterans to Replace Them.
Every trucker pulled off the road for a safety violation has to be replaced by someone. That’s the detail missing from the government’s shiny new highway safety plan – a document that spends paragraphs bragging about how many truckers it removed and almost nothing on who is supposed to drive the trucks now. On August…
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Honda’s Profit Just Doubled. Its Two Biggest Problems Haven’t Moved An Inch.
Honda’s profit more than doubled last quarter. That’s the version of this story built for a press release, and it isn’t wrong. It just isn’t the interesting part. The interesting part is that this comeback arrives almost exactly one year after Honda posted the first full-year net loss in its entire history — a company…
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This Week at The Auto Wire: Full Recap (August 3–7, 2026)
A day-by-day look at everything The Auto Wire published this week, Monday, August 3 through Friday, August 7, 2026 — 46 stories in all. Monday, August 3 Rhode Island Will Send Your Home Address to Firefighters If You Drive an EVRhode Island’s DMV will start sharing EV owners’ addresses with local fire departments so crews…
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Two VW Engineers Pleaded Not Guilty to Rivian Insider Trading. A Judge Already Scheduled Time For Them to Reconsider
Michael Stamp and Marcus Plank stood in a Manhattan courtroom on August 4 and said two words: not guilty. If that sounds like breaking news, it isn’t. A not-guilty plea at arraignment is closer to a formality than a declaration of innocence, and everyone in that courtroom already knew it. The more interesting story wasn’t…
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This Week’s Scary Car Death-Rate Rankings Didn’t Come From a Safety Regulator. They Came From Insurance Wearing a Lab Coat
Somewhere in the foothills of central Virginia, there’s a nonprofit that has spent more than sixty years perfecting one very specific skill: figuring out exactly how much your car is going to hurt somebody. This week it published its latest report, and a lot of the coverage treated it like a bulletin from a federal…
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A Kia Dealer Got Caught Cannibalizing One Customer’s SUV to Fix Someone Else’s. Firing the Manager Doesn’t Fix What’s Actually Broken
The Lake Charles, Louisiana woman dropped her Kia SUV off at Kia of Lake Charles on June 17 for a blown tire. It sat there for more than a month with almost no communication from the service department. When she finally drove over to check on it in person, she found the hood propped open…
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GM’s Next Camaro Reportedly Gets Four Doors and a Manual. It’s Secretly Been a Cadillac This Whole Time
Chevrolet fans are melting down over a rumor that the next Camaro might show up with four doors and a manual gearbox. They are arguing about the wrong thing. The transmission and the extra doors are not the real story here. What is underneath them has been hiding in plain sight since 2015. According to…
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Cadillac Teases a Motorsport-Derived Reveal for Monterey — Here’s What It Can Legally Be
Cadillac spent the weekend winning a six-hour endurance race and then spent Monday posting a moody black-and-white teaser. The two things are related, and the brand isn’t being subtle about it. The company says it’s heading to The Quail on August 14 with, in its own words, “a showcase of what happens when track-proven engineering…
