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Canada Will Impose 100% Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles
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Texas Sues General Motors for Collecting and Selling Driver Data
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Delaware Judge Questions Tesla About Vote on Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay
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Elon Musk Says Robotaxis Are Tesla’s Future. Experts Have Doubts.
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Ford Plans More Gas Trucks, Fewer Electric Vehicles
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Biden Offers $1.7 Billion to Help Factories Build Electric Vehicles
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Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%
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The Biden administration’s new regulation limiting tailpipe emissions from cars and light trucks would transform the American automobile market, charting
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Inside the Republican Attacks on Electric Vehicles
President Biden’s new rule cutting emissions from vehicle tailpipes has deepened a partisan battle over automotive technology.
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New Rules Will Still Push Carmakers to Sell More Electric Cars
Even if clean air rules announced on Wednesday in Washington are less forceful than some environmentalists would have liked, they
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Biden Administration Announces New Tailpipe Rules Aimed to Expand EVs
The Biden administration on Wednesday issued one of the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history, a rule designed
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How Waymo Driverless Cars Could Change Los Angeles
Los Angeles, to drivers, has never been for the faint of heart. A land where most cannot fathom life without
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U.S. Accuses Two Men of Stealing Tesla Trade Secrets
A Canadian man who lives in China was arrested Tuesday and held in New York after he and a business
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Car Deals Are Easier to Find but Lenders Are Tightening Their Terms
New cars are more available this spring, and manufacturers have even begun offering deals to entice buyers. But at the
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Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives
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Tesla Settles Discrimination Suit With Former Factory Worker
Tesla and a former employee have agreed to settle a closely watched lawsuit that cast a harsh light on the
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Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data
When Romeo Chicco tried to get auto insurance in December, seven different companies rejected him. When he eventually obtained insurance,
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Toyota’s Hybrid-First Strategy Is Delivering Big Profits
In today’s high-tech, high-stakes auto industry, fortunes can change quickly, and there’s no better example of that right now than
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BMW Is a Surprise Winner in Electric Vehicles
As BMW car bodies glided down an assembly line in Munich recently, showered by sparks from robotic welders, it was
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F1 Teams Sauber and AlphaTauri Get New Names
Formula 1 has two new team names this season, which follow a trend in the sport to focus on marketing:
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Behind Apple’s Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns
For the last decade, many Apple employees working on the company’s secretive car project, internally code-named Titan, had a less
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Auto Insurance Spike Hampers the Inflation Fight
Job growth, wage growth and business growth are all lively, and inflation has steeply fallen from its 2022 highs. But
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Haas Formula 1 Team Makes Big Changes for 2024 and Beyond
The name above the door of the Haas Formula 1 team remains unaltered. But, heading into the 2024 Formula 1
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For 2024 F1 Season, Red Bull is the Focus
For Red Bull’s nine rivals in Formula 1, there is a mix of hope and realism that the sport’s dominant
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Tips for Renting a Car Abroad
“Throw the keys through the kiosk’s open window. We’ll get the car when we open later”: Those slightly unorthodox drop-off
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Volkswagen Sees Electric Vehicles as a Way to Grow in the U.S.
Probably only Americans of a certain age remember when the Volkswagen Beetle was the best-selling imported car in the United
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Let Tesla Expand? Three German Teens Have a Few Thoughts.
Tesla’s hulking assembly plant outside Berlin, which opened two years ago in a community known for its forests and lakes,
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Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars
In a concession to automakers and labor unions, the Biden administration intends to relax elements of one of its most
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Tesla’s Board Chair Under Scrutiny for Oversight of Elon Musk
Elon Musk, the chief executive and public face of Tesla, is constantly making news and broadcasting his opinions on his
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How China Built BYD, Its Tesla Killer
China’s BYD was a battery manufacturer trying its hand at building cars when it showed off its newest model in
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Ford Reports Quarterly Loss but Says Sales Grew
Ford Motor said it lost $526 million in the final three months of 2023, mainly as a result of special
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The Land of Ferrari and Lamborghini Has a New Speed Limit: 30 K.P.H.
When Bologna became the first major Italian city to impose a speed limit of 30 kilometers, or 20 miles, an
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How Ford’s F-150 Lightning, Once in Hot Demand, Lost Its Luster
In July Michael Puglia drove home with what seemed like the coolest vehicle he’d ever own — a Ford F-150
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Vision Pro Goggles are not Safe While Driving a Tesla, U.S. Says
Videos being shared across social media this week depict an almost dystopian, futuristic scene: drivers of Teslas in Autopilot mode
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Elon Musk’s $50 Billion Tesla Pay Was Struck Down. What Happens Next?
A Delaware judge’s decision to void the pay package that helped make Elon Musk the world’s richest person leaves Tesla’s
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G.M. Profits Hurt by Electric Car Business and Strike
General Motors said on Tuesday that its profit in the final three months of 2023 was depressed by the cost
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Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay Package Is Voided by Judge
Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, suffered a stunning rebuke Tuesday when a Delaware judge voided the pay package
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Truck Makers Team Up to Push for Electric Vehicle Chargers
There are more than four million electric vehicles on American roads, but fewer than 1,000 of them are heavy-duty trucks.
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Phones Track Everything but Their Role in Car Wrecks
Cellphones can track what we say and write, where we go, what we buy and what we search on the
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Tesla Profit From Car Sales Falls as Price Cuts Hurt
Tesla’s profit from sales of electric cars slumped in the last three months of last year because of price cuts
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Biden to Make EV Charging Tax Credits Available in Much of U.S.
The Biden administration on Friday issued guidance that makes much of the country eligible for tax credits intended to offset
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Tesla Drivers in Chicago Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather
With Chicago temperatures sinking below zero, electric vehicle charging stations have become scenes of desperation: depleted batteries, confrontational drivers and
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Hybrid Cars Enjoy a Renaissance as All-Electric Sales Slow
As Teslas and other electric vehicles dazzled car buyers with futuristic technology and dreams of a gasoline-free future, hybrid cars
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Musk Demands Bigger Stake in Tesla as Price for A.I. Work
Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, demanded that the company’s board give him shares worth more than $80 billion
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Hertz Sells 20,000 Electric Cars After Being Burned by Tesla’s Price Cuts
The rental car company Hertz will be selling about one-third of the electric vehicles in its fleet after they lost
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How Tracking and Technology in Cars Is Being Weaponized by Abusive Partners
After almost 10 years of marriage, Christine Dowdall wanted out. Her husband was no longer the charming man she had
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Why Are American Drivers So Deadly?
Brian Moody, executive editor of the website Autotrader, told me he expected more manufacturers to adopt automated safety technology in
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General Motors Reports a 14% Jump in U.S. Auto Sales in 2023
General Motors said on Tuesday that its sales of new vehicles in the United States jumped 14 percent last year,
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Tesla Sales Rebound After Steep Price Cuts
Tesla sales jumped during the last three months of 2023 after the carmaker slashed prices and customers rushed to take
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