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Tesla Just Agreed To Stop Using Its Superchargers As A Collections Agency, And All You Get Is $10
The Tesla idle fee settlement pays class members $10. The part worth far more is the sentence where Tesla gives up the right to switch off your charging access over a disputed bill.
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Auto Insurers Are Closing Half of Injury Claims Without Paying a Dime
Every state that requires you to carry liability coverage requires you to buy a promise. Nobody makes the insurer publish how often it keeps it. That data does exist, though. It’s just buried where almost no driver will ever look: in the statutory annual statement every property-casualty insurer files with regulators. Deep in Schedule P,…
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The Great Insurance Sale Is Over, and 32 States Are About to Pay the Tab
Last year, car insurance premiums did something they almost never do: they went down. Rates fell an average of 6% nationally in 2025, and drivers in 39 states saw meaningful relief at renewal time. It felt like the market had finally corrected after the brutal inflation spiral that peaked in 2024. It wasn’t correction. It…
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BMW Figured Out How To Turn Scrap Steel Into New Cars. Europe’s New Recycling Law Doesn’t Even Ask For That
BMW put out a number this week that sounds like a win: 51 percent. That’s the share of a scrapped car’s materials the company says it can now recover at a quality level good enough to go straight back into building a new one, according to results from its Car2Car research project. Under normal market…
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So GM Reopened the Ohio Battery Plant. Don’t Let That Distract You From What Happened to Indiana and Tennessee.
GM restarted its Ohio battery plant after seven months idle. But while that news dominated the headlines, the company quietly sold its Indiana factory to Samsung SDI and converted its Tennessee plant to make batteries for AI data centers. Ohio is the easy part of a much bigger story.
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The Real Reason Honda Is Selling You Its Old Race Cars Has Nothing to Do With Nostalgia
Honda’s new Heritage Racing Program looks like nostalgia. It isn’t. It’s Honda reclaiming authority over its own race cars — the ones it built, won with, and then handed off to whoever bought them. The vintage racing market was going to happen with or without Honda. Honda has decided it would prefer to be in…
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JLR Says It Couldn’t Build Enough Cars. So Why Did It Nearly Double The Discounts?
JLR blamed a supplier fire and a Middle East war for a 69 percent profit collapse. Its own incentive line tells a different story.
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Tesla Just Agreed To Stop Using Its Superchargers As A Collections Agency, And All You Get Is $10
The Tesla idle fee settlement pays class members $10. The part worth far more is the sentence where Tesla gives up the right to switch off your charging access over a disputed bill.
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IIHS Just Ranked America’s Most Dangerous Cars. The Industry Already Killed Seven of Them
Look at the ten vehicles with the worst driver death rates in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s newest report, and something jumps out that never made it into the press release: seven of them are no longer for sale. Not recalled. Not redesigned. Discontinued, replaced on the showroom floor, gone before the data even…
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A BMW Street Race Killed a 77-Year-Old Woman in Florida. The Driver’s Own Car Contradicted His Story.
Cesar Ramon Estrada Garcia had an explanation ready when Florida Highway Patrol investigators caught up with him. He’d been driving recklessly, he admitted that much. But racing another BMW down a public road at triple-digit speed? He put his own speed at somewhere between 60 and 70 mph. His car told a different story. Data…
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GM Took $500 Million to Electrify This Plant. It’s Laying Off 350 Workers to Build a Gas Cadillac Instead
Three hundred fifty people at General Motors’ Lansing Grand River complex are being laid off for six weeks starting in mid-January 2027. That sentence undersells what’s actually happening. Thanks to a decades-old union contract, most of those workers will keep collecting close to three-quarters of their normal paycheck while they’re off the clock. The layoff…
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Ford Buried the Shelby Badge, Then Built the Most Powerful Mustang Convertible It’s Ever Made
Ford wants you to notice the horsepower number on its new Mustang Dark Horse SC Convertible. Look at what’s missing from the fender instead. On August 14, at the Woodward Dream Cruise outside Detroit, Ford Racing pulled the cover off the 2027 Mustang Dark Horse SC Convertible. A supercharged 5.2-liter V8 makes 795 horsepower and…
