Tesla’s Semi Plant Opens, Rivian Recalls Nearly 99,000 EVs, and What Else Moved
Tesla's Semi factory opens, Rivian recalls 98,828 EVs over backup cameras, Geely hits four-minute charging, and the BYD question hangs…
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California Just Made CARB’s Silence Mean Yes on Aftermarket Parts
Governor Gavin Newsom signed three car bills on September 16. Two of them got a...
Used Car Values Just Dipped for the First Time This Year. Used EVs Went the Other Way.
The Manheim index slipped 0.4% from a year ago, but wholesale EV values rose 2.3% as gas hit $4.48 and…
Detroit’s Chinese-Assembly Ban Push, 4,100 More Porsche Cuts, and What Else Moved
Four separate alerts landed on the same argument today, which usually means a policy fight...
Nissan Says The Rogue Hybrid Starts At $37,065. Good Luck Finding One That Cheap.
Nissan put numbers on the 2027 Rogue Hybrid this week, and the one it wants...
America Is Making More Diesel Than It Has Since 2019. It Still Costs a Record $6.29.
The most useful number inside this week’s record diesel prices is not $6.29. It is...
Nissan Says It Wants a Million Cars a Year From Japan. It Said That in 2015, Too.
Nissan’s Japanese reorganisation revives a one-million-unit target it first announced in 2015, at the same plant, on the same export…
Gas Prices Jumped 31.8%. The Electric Sedan Still Lost the Math by $3,080.
AAA put the cost to own a new car at $12,863 a year. The category tables say fuel efficiency is…
Copart Just Dropped $1.9 Billion on ACV. It Didn’t Pay for the Auctions.
Copart announced a $1.9 billion deal for ACV Auctions on the same day it reported a flat fiscal year. The…
Congress Couldn’t Kill This 2013 Rule, So the EPA Just Sent It Back for Round Two
The Congressional Review Act gives Congress 60 days to kill a rule. The EPA reopened that window on waivers from…
Beijing Never Banned the Gas Car. It Just Stopped Issuing the License Plates.
VW and Toyota are slashing prices on combustion cars in China. In Beijing, only 20,000 combustion plates will be issued…
New-Car Prices Top $50K Again: Why Budget Buyers and Long Loans Feel It Most
The average new vehicle in America sold for $50,089 in August. That figure will get...
EPA Pulls Scope 3 Emissions Guidance: What It Means for Automakers and Car Buyers
The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly edited Scope 3 emissions out of its corporate climate...
BYD’s Pakistan Factory Missed Its Deadline Again — And BYD Isn’t The One Who Should Be Sweating
A car factory in the Sindh desert just blew through another deadline. On its own,...
Fuel Economy Rollback: What NHTSA’s Own Numbers Say About Car Prices
There’s a number attached to the coming fuel-economy rollback, and depending on which government document...