News
-
GM Crammed 721 Horsepower Into a Corvette With a Battery the Size of a Cordless Drill
The Number Nobody’s Talking About Chevrolet just started building the least Instagrammed, most quietly important Corvette in a decade, and the number that matters most isn’t on the window sticker. It isn’t 721 horsepower, either. It’s 1.9 — as in kilowatt-hours, the entire capacity of the battery pack that turns a Corvette Grand Sport into…
-
A 127.5% Tariff Still Couldn’t Kill Waymo’s Chinese Robotaxi Bet — Here’s the Math That Makes It Worth It
Somewhere at the Port of Los Angeles, Waymo has been quietly paying a bill that should make Detroit nervous for entirely the wrong reason. Since 2024, the company has imported 3,200 Chinese-built electric vehicles to serve as robotaxis, absorbing a 127.5% Chinese robotaxi tariff on every single one. That’s the kind of tax that turns…
-
Pony.ai Promised Europe More Robotaxis Than It’s Ever Built. Who Owns the Ones That Don’t Exist Yet?
Somewhere inside a routine filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sits a sentence more revealing than anything in last week’s press release: vehicle funding and ownership can shift from partner to partner depending on the market. That’s corporate language for something simple. When one of these robotaxis eventually collides with a cyclist on…
-
A Nearly Free Recall Just Tanked Stellantis Stock 4% — Its Own Paperwork Explains Why
Wall Street didn’t punish Stellantis this week for a broken camera. It punished the company for admitting, again, that it doesn’t have much room left for mistakes. Shares slid nearly 4% this week, sliding toward roughly $5.15, after Stellantis told federal regulators it was recalling something like 955,000 vehicles worldwide, about 848,000 of them in…
-
Britain Has No Law Against This: Arnold Clark Just Ate a 65-Year Family Dealership Whole
There’s a SEAT and CUPRA dealership in Uddingston, Scotland that changed its name this month. That’s the entire news event. A dealership sign came down, a new one went up, and the paperwork closed on a business that had been selling cars from the same corner of Glasgow’s suburbs for roughly 65 years. The company…
-
Sub-$20,000 Used Cars Are Basically an Endangered Species — Only 1 in 9 Three-Year-Olds Survives
A three-year-old Camry saved you $8,033 in 2019. It saves you $4,171 now. The real story in the iSeeCars data is not price, it is a broken depreciation curve.
-
Colorado Finally Figured Out How Long Teen Driver’s Ed Should Take. Every Other State Just Shrugged.
Colorado just told teenagers that getting a driver’s permit will soon require sitting through 30 hours of driver’s education. Local coverage treated that number like the headline. It isn’t. Starting January 1, 2027, Colorado’s HB24-1021 will require anyone between 15 and 17 to complete a 30-hour driver education course, which can be taken online, before…
-
O’Reilly TCPA Settlement Explained: Reassigned Numbers, Do-Not-Call Rules and Claim Deadlines
Here’s the part of this story that nobody’s leading with: O’Reilly may well have had permission to text every single number on the list. That’s the whole problem. The case is Bryan v. O’Reilly Automotive, Inc., No. 2026CH000016, sitting in the Circuit Court of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit in LaSalle County, Illinois. O’Reilly agreed to…
-
Inside Tesla’s 64-Stall Queens Supercharger: Power, Utility Costs and Rideshare Demand
A 64-stall Supercharger is going up in Maspeth, Queens, and the framing everywhere is that it’s a mega-stop for people driving out to Montauk. That framing is wrong, and the reason it’s wrong is more interesting than the stall count. Start with a correction, though, because the number being passed around doesn’t survive contact with…
-
Tesla’s Cybercab Has No Steering Wheel and No Backup Plan — Which Is Why Employees Ride First, Not You
Tesla has reportedly told employees to be ready for the first public-road rides in the Cybercab, possibly before the end of August, according to a report from The Information relayed by CBT News. The obvious story here is that Tesla is finally putting Cybercab on the street. The more useful question is why Tesla’s own…
-
Voyah Passion S Tunnel Loop: The Physics Behind China’s Schumacher Tribute
Sixteen years ago Mercedes ran a spot in which an SLS AMG corkscrewed around the inside of a tunnel, and people have been arguing about whether it was real ever since. Voyah — Dongfeng’s premium electric brand, headquartered in Wuhan — decided the way to launch a new crossover was to go do it again,…
-
Trump’s 50% Canada Car Tariff Got a Three-Day Pause. The Fine Print Shows It Was Built to Tax Detroit’s Own Factories
For three days this week, Washington and Ottawa get to act like a trade crisis got solved. It didn’t. On August 18, the White House suspended a fresh round of tariffs on Canadian alcohol, dairy, and motor vehicles that were set to run as high as 50 percent. The suspension expires at 12:01 a.m. on…
