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You May Get More EV Options Thanks to Tougher Emissions Rules

Automakers have made plenty of promises about electric vehicles. General Motors, Ford, and Volvo—some of the more ambitious—have pledged to sell only zero-emission cars by at least 2035. That’s quite a commitment,...

Your Used Car May Soon Come With Subscription Fees

news reports often get people angry, but wow, did people get mad over an article published last summer about BMW. It described how the German automaker now sold some features of its vehicles...

The Trans-American Race to Build Chargers for Electric Trucks

More than is typical even for technology entrepreneurs, Neha Palmer is in the business of predicting the future. TeraWatt Infrastructure, a startup unicorn based in San Francisco, is a bet on the...

Cars That Watch Their Drivers Could Reteach the World to Drive

To get their cars to stay in lane or follow traffic by themselves, automakers are adding more sophisticated and pricey sensors and software to their vehicles. But not all of them are...

The Mystery Vehicle at the Heart of Tesla’s New Master Plan

Nearly four hours into Tesla’s marathon Investor Day, someone in the audience tried again to bring Elon Musk, the Tesla (and Twitter and SpaceX) CEO back to the present day. From a...

The Amazonification of Buying a New Car

The jump in online car sales came in part from consumers doing more of everything online during the pandemic. Automakers responded to the moment by accelerating their existing plans for digital sales.General...

Tesla's 2023 Recall of Full Self-Driving Targets a 'Fundamental' Flaw

Tesla told the agency this week that customers had filed warranty claims matching the situations highlighted by NHTSA on at least 18 occasions between spring 2019 and fall 2022. The filing notes...

My Strange Day With Bing’s New AI Chatbot

Twenty minutes after Microsoft granted me access to a limited preview of its new chatbot interface for the Bing search engine, I asked it something you generally don’t bring up with someone you just...

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