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Three robotaxi CEOs will sit across from federal regulators on Tuesday. One conspicuously prominent company will not be at that table. According to Reuters, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration holds its National AV Safety Forum on March 10 in Washington, D.C., a day-long session at USDOT Headquarters that will feature a fireside chat between…
The vacant lot next to Fred Ippolito’s Volkswagen dealership in West Islip, New York, says more about the current state of auto retail than any industry report. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ippolito bought it four years ago, convinced Scout Motors would need dealer partners to move its American-built trucks and SUVs. Today it’s…
Tesla’s Canadian Model 3 inventory has gone to zero. A check of Tesla’s Canadian storefront shows no Model 3 units available for order, and the timing lines up directly with Canada’s new 6.1% tariff on Chinese-built EVs, which replaced the previous 100% surtax under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s January 2026 trade agreement with Beijing. The…
Tesla faces a $1 million negligence lawsuit after the March 1 Austin mass shooter, Ndiaga Diagne, was linked to a prior assault on a 65-year-old employee at Giga Texas. Learn about the evidence gap and Tesla’s safety record.
The vote Tuesday night wasn’t close enough to stop anything, and everyone in the chamber knew it. Nashville’s Metro Council passed a resolution expressing concerns about The Boring Company‘s Music City Loop tunnel project 20 to 15, with 2 abstaining. The resolution has no legal force. It cannot delay tunneling or alter the route. It…
Tesla still holds roughly $800 million worth of bitcoin on its balance sheet, based on the company’s disclosed BTC holdings and market prices at the time of writing. That number hasn’t moved much in the headlines lately, but it matters today because Elon Musk is actively pushing crypto enthusiasm for a different venture: X Money,…
Elon Musk took the witness stand Wednesday in San Francisco federal court — wearing a black suit and tie, not a Tesla hoodie — to defend himself in a class-action securities fraud trial brought by former Twitter shareholders. The case centers on one of the messiest corporate deals in recent memory: Musk’s on-again, off-again, $44…
The single most telling number from Scout Motors’ reservation update isn’t 160,000. It’s 87%. That’s the share of reservation holders who chose the 500-mile extended-range version of the Scout Traveler SUV and Scout Terra pickup over the pure battery-electric option. For a brand launching in 2027 with the explicit goal of winning over American truck…
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