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GM Lost 41,028 EV Sales After the $7,500 Credit Died. Its Entire U.S. Drop Was 39,373.
GM’s EV deliveries fell by 41,028 in the third quarter, more than its total U.S. sales decline, a year after the federal $7,500 credit ended.
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Connected Car Apps Are Leaking VINs to Big Tech Ad Networks
Nobody cross-shops crossovers by their ad-tech stack. But a new study shows that whatever you drive home, a few of Silicon Valley’s biggest ad businesses probably came along for the ride. The peer-reviewed paper, titled “Automatic Transmission,” comes from Northeastern University’s Khoury College and will be presented at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference in Karlsruhe,…
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Customs Officials in Elizabeth, N.J., Report a Record 603 Stolen Vehicles Stopped Before Export, Then Say Most Go Back to Insurers, Not Owners
U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped a record 603 stolen vehicles at the ports of New York and New Jersey over the past year, News 12 New Jersey reported, and at a news conference Thursday at the Elizabeth Seaport in New Jersey, the port director said where those vehicles go next: most of the time,…
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Audi’s EV Patent Calls for Real Motor Noise, Fake Gearshifts and Sparks Ground Off the Pavement
Audi’s German patent application would hard-mount an EV’s motor, strip its soundproofing, simulate gearshifts and turbo lag, and grind a sacrificial metal part on the road for sparks.
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Police Say a Driver Stopped for High Beams on Florida’s Longboat Key Climbed Into the Back Seat, Then Refused Sobriety Tests
Longboat Key police say a driver stopped for high beams moved to the back seat as his passenger claimed the wheel. Florida made a first breath-test refusal a crime in 2025.
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Ninth DUI Arrest, No License, No Interlock: Nothing in the SUV Was Built to Stop Him
Police found a gray SUV blocking a Waukegan street at 1:21 a.m. The driver, prosecutors say, had eight prior DUI arrests and no license, and no ignition interlock could reach the car.
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An AI Avatar Spoke for a Road-Rage Victim at Sentencing. Arizona Just Threw Out the 10.5-Year Term.
Arizona’s appeals court kept Gabriel Horcasitas’s manslaughter conviction but vacated his sentence because the judge relied on an AI rendering of the man he shot. The line it drew between recorded video and generated video will follow road-rage cases.
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USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Road Scanners With Nextbase Dash Cams
The most thorough road surveyor in America isn’t a state DOT inspection van or a mapping car. It’s the right-hand-drive box that rolls past your curb six days a week, whether your street deserves the visit or not. The U.S. Postal Service has done the same math. A Sept. 18 letter from USPS Labor Relations…
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Philadelphia’s Speed Cameras Billed a Dallas Man for a Mercedes. The Plate Came Off His Buick in 2022.
A Texas plate number canceled in 2022 turned up on a dark Mercedes in Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania’s camera law sent the bill to a Dallas man who says he hasn’t been there in 40 years.
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A Stolen Identity Financed the Corvette. A Second One Wrote the Down Payment Check.
Prosecutors say a Queens man financed a $114,000 Corvette in one stolen name and paid the down payment with a forged check in another. A co-conspirator was arrested in a Maserati registered to the same victim he later used to buy a Porsche.
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Wrecked Rolls-Royce Phantom V Lands Iowa Lawyer in Federal Prison
Picture a 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V with its front end smashed in, unable to run, sitting at a farm shop where a tow truck left it. Then picture that car listed on a nursing-home benefits application as a $194,000 family vehicle. A federal judge in Iowa didn’t find it convincing either. Timothy Mark Anderson, 67,…
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Texas Restoration Shop Owner Got 60 Years for Theft. His Appeal Says 28 Customers Had Contract Disputes.
Richard Finley’s 60-year theft sentence in Galveston County, Texas, rests on a law that adds many customers’ losses into one felony. His appeal targets that total.
