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The EPA Calls This a Gas Price ‘Emergency.’ It’s Been One Since May.
Gas is about to get a little cheaper for the last stretch of summer. That’s not really the story. On August 20, the EPA and the Department of Energy issued a temporary emergency fuel waiver that lets refiners start selling higher-volatility E10 gasoline on September 1, two weeks before the summer blending season was scheduled…
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GEICO’s $1.65 Million Settlement Isn’t About the $150 Checks — It’s About the File That Sets Your Rate
A federal judge in Maryland is scheduled to sign off in January on a settlement that will send roughly 7,200 people a check for about $150 each. That is not, on its face, a big number. But the case behind those checks is a rare, detailed look at how a car insurer treats the file…
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Stellantis Patented Emergency Lights for Cars That Have Already Rolled Over
Every taillight ever engineered assumes the car will stay right-side up. Stellantis just filed a patent that quietly admits otherwise. The application, submitted to France’s national patent office, INPI, describes a pair of auxiliary warning lights mounted low on the front and rear bumpers — not the taillights or headlights you already know, but a…
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Toyota Owes 48,280 Tacoma Owners New Shocks. Somebody Has To Build 193,120 Of Them First
The corrosion fix is the easy part of Toyota’s Tacoma shock absorber recall. Building 193,120 remote-reservoir Bilstein dampers is not, and federal law sets the letter date regardless.
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Stellantis Filed Three Backup-Camera Recalls in Three Months. The First Two Covered Only 75 Cars.
Stellantis didn’t tell federal safety regulators about a blank backup camera once this summer. It told them three times, under three different explanations, at three wildly different scales. The version that made headlines this week covers something like 900,000 vehicles in the United States and helped knock nearly 4 percent off the stock in a…
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Wall Street Cheered a Bronco Pickup That Doesn’t Exist. It Ignored 565,691 Real Ones With a Fire Risk.
On Wednesday, Ford stock jumped 4% on a rumor about a truck that does not exist, might not exist until 2030, and that Ford has not confirmed. By Thursday afternoon, shares had given back nearly the entire move. Nothing about Ford’s business changed in that 24-hour window. A headline did. That round trip is a…
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Record $2.1M Ford GT Sale: The Mileage Cliff Explained
Eight Miles, Two Million Dollars, and the Number Nobody Is Talking About The headline figure from Bring a Trailer’s August 4 auction is $2,101,000 — a 2006 Ford GT Heritage Edition with eight miles on the odometer, and the highest recorded sale for a first-generation GT in Classic.com’s database. That’s the number that traveled. It…
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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…
