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Belvidere’s Jeep Cherokee Delayed to 2029 as Stellantis Bets on STLA One
There are two ways to read what Stellantis said about Belvidere on August 14. One is that a shuttered Illinois assembly plant finally has a product with a name on it. The other is that the reopening slipped again, and the thing replacing the old date is a vehicle architecture that won’t exist in production…
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Black Hat Just Proved Your EV Charger Can Infect Your Car—And Everything Else Nearby
Forget air-gapped security discussions. Forget the naive assumption that physical charging hardware couldn’t be turned into an attack vector. A research team just demonstrated something far more unsettling: a single compromised charger becomes a worm that autonomously spreads to other vehicles and charging networks—without needing a driver to do anything after the initial connection. The…
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Waymo Told NHTSA How It Decides School-Zone Speeds. Then It Blacked Out the Answer.
A nine-year-old girl in Santa Monica is fine. She stood up, walked to the curb, and didn’t need to go to a hospital. Seven months later, that’s still the least interesting part of this story. The interesting part is what happened next: a federal agency spent half a year trying to get Waymo to explain,…
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Volkswagen Wants an American Pickup Truck by 2030 – and Might Need Ford to Dodge a Tariff It Basically Invented
Volkswagen wants to sell you a pickup truck by 2030. Set that fact aside for a second, because the truck itself is not the interesting part of this story. The interesting part is why a company that has spent sixty years perfectly content building Golfs and Jettas suddenly wants into the one segment of the…
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Lexus Australia Boss Wants Car Data Rules as Strict as Safety Standards
Car executives asking to be regulated is not a common sound in nature. It sits somewhere between “please audit me” and “raise my taxes.” So when the head of Lexus Australia says the country needs a national framework governing what cars collect about their occupants, it’s worth asking what he thinks is coming, and why…
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Dunlop Is Warning California About Its New Tire Rule. The Vote Already Happened.
A public comment is supposed to arrive before a vote, not after one. On August 17, the California Energy Commission voted 5-0 to create the nation’s first efficiency floor for replacement tires. Five days later, Dunlop Tires North America sent the state a detailed warning about that same rule. This isn’t a company that missed…
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Volkswagen’s CEO Called It a ‘Mega-Crisis.’ His Own Numbers Say the Real Enemy Is the Org Chart
Oliver Blume did not have to reach for the words “mega-crisis.” Volkswagen already had perfectly serviceable corporate language sitting on the shelf this year alone: a future plan, a strategic realignment, a next phase of transformation. Instead, addressing employees at Wolfsburg and other German plants in August, Volkswagen’s CEO chose the most dramatic phrase available…
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California Just Bragged About Its Hydrogen Fueling Network. The Feds’ Own Numbers Say Otherwise
Read the California Energy Commission’s press release from August 18 about California hydrogen fueling stations and the state sounds like it just solved hydrogen. Read the U.S. Department of Energy’s own station database, updated the same week, and you’ll find that a lot of the hydrogen infrastructure California is bragging about isn’t actually there anymore.…
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Flock Safety Claims an 11% Drop in Car Theft. Here’s What It Left Out
Flock Safety, the license-plate-reader company, published a blog post on August 24, 2026 headlined “Independent Study: Vehicle Thefts Fell 11% After Flock Cameras Went Live.” The post summarizes a real academic working paper, and most of its headline numbers are accurate as far as they go. But comparing the company’s summary against the underlying paper…
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Honda’s Entire Safety Suite Runs Through One Camera. Guess What Keeps Failing.
Beverly Mason didn’t get a recall notice. She got a $2,933 repair bill. That gap — between what should trigger a fix and what actually does — is the real story hiding inside her new lawsuit against Honda, not the lawsuit itself. Mason, a Virginia resident, bought her 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid new in…
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Quebec Spent 64 Pages Proving Your Car Doesn’t Respect You. Detroit Already Ran the Experiment.
A government ethics panel in Quebec just spent the better part of a year producing a 64-page indictment of your dashboard, and the case it built about consent, insurance, and cloud storage reads almost like a legal brief the FTC already filed against General Motors. Only this time, the target isn’t one automaker’s fine print.…
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Her Nissan Rogue Passed a Clean Carfax Check. It Still Had Three VINs, and It Belonged to Enterprise the Whole Time
Amber Wolnomiejski did the things a careful car buyer is told to do. She pulled a vehicle history report before she signed anything. She bought from a licensed dealership instead of a stranger on Facebook Marketplace. She financed the SUV through a legitimate lender and paid on time, every month, for two years. None of…
