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NHTSA says the Tesla Model Y is the first car to pass its new safety tests. The agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Teslas for crashing.

  The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle to pass NHTSA’s new advanced driver assistance safety tests. The same agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Tesla vehicles for crashing while using the company’s more advanced self-driving system. The announcement celebrates Tesla for passing a test that measures […]

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Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, Uber’s autonomous vehicle partner, after identifying 16 crashes and one minor injury in the four months since the company launched its robotaxi service in Dallas. The regulator’s language is unusually blunt: the vehicles displayed “excessive assertiveness and insufficient capability,” a phrase that could […]

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BMW iX3 has a lower starting price than comparable gas-powered X3

The 2027 BMW iX3 is now available in the US, and its starting price my surprise and delight fans of the Bavarian automaker. The iX3, which is the first vehicle built on BMW’s next-gen Neue Klasse platform, starts at $62,850 including shipping, which is about $5,000 less than the equivalent gas-powered BMW X3 M50 xDrive […]

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The rise of AI Orchestration Layers: BadCo.AI on guiding a more connected car buying experience

The future of automotive retail may depend less on isolated AI tools and more on orchestration systems that connect every part of the buyer journey. BadCo.AI views the future of car buying as a rapidly evolving ecosystem shaped by connected technologies and rising consumer expectations. It observes that AI orchestration layers are emerging as a […]

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Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.

When Rivian went public in November 2021, Amazon owned 20 per cent of the company. It had backed the electric vehicle startup with a 700 million dollar cheque in 2019, ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans, and watched its investment surge to more than 15 billion dollars on Rivian’s first day of trading. Four years later, […]

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Inside the lab where Ford is trying to crack the code on cheap EVs

Ford isn’t sending the clearest signals regarding its EV future. We got a glimpse of its Universal EV (UEV) Project last February, but then it pulled the plug on the F-150 Lightning, which is regarded as one of the more successful electric pickup trucks to date. The climate surrounding electric vehicles hasn’t helped, either, between […]

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Every AI company now wants to ride shotgun. The car dashboard is becoming the last screen that matters.

The Grok iOS app now contains a placeholder that reads “Grok Voice mode coming soon to CarPlay.” It is a single line of interface text, and it means that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is about to follow ChatGPT and Perplexity onto the car dashboards of every iPhone user in the world. The car, it turns […]

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Foreign automakers are not staging a comeback in China. They are learning to be the junior partner.

In January and February 2026, Volkswagen reclaimed the top position in China’s passenger vehicle market with a 13.9 per cent share, narrowly ahead of Geely at 13.8 per cent. Toyota’s joint ventures held 7.8 per cent. BYD, which dominated 2024 and much of 2025 as the world’s largest EV maker, slipped to fourth at 7.1 […]

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Trump is breaking the Turnberry deal over cars. Semiconductors are next in line.

The Turnberry Agreement was supposed to be the floor. Signed at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland last July, the deal between the United States and the European Union set a 15 per cent tariff ceiling on nearly all EU goods entering America, including cars, car parts, semiconductors, and pharmaceutical products. In exchange, the EU […]

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GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet

The over-the-air update replaces Google Assistant across model year 2022 and newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles, but arrives under the shadow of GM’s data-sharing controversy and a looming FTC consent order. General Motors has announced that Google Gemini is rolling out to approximately four million vehicles in the United States, in what the […]

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