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Tesla Faces Fraud Investigation From DOJ, SEC Over ‘Full Self-Driving’ Claims

Tesla Faces Fraud Investigation From DOJ, SEC Over ‘Full Self-Driving’ Claims

News → News by Brand → Tesla News Tesla’s doublespeak about its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving tech could earn it criminal penalties. byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED May 8, 2024 6:00 PM EDT Brandon Bell via Getty Images For almost a decade now, Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk have repeatedly promised that its automated driving assists […]

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Hertz Charges Tesla Model 3 Renter $277 Fee for Gas, Won’t Back Down

Hertz Charges Tesla Model 3 Renter $277 Fee for Gas, Won’t Back Down

News → News by Brand → Tesla News A loyal Hertz customer was hit with a nasty surcharge to “fill up the gas tank” of a Tesla Model 3—and the company’s not budging. byNico DeMattia| PUBLISHED May 8, 2024 5:30 PM EDT Joshua Lee, The Drive You might understand the shock that Hertz customer Joshua

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Watch the McMurtry Speirling Fan Car Pass GT3 Racers Like They’re Miatas

Watch the McMurtry Speirling Fan Car Pass GT3 Racers Like They’re Miatas

News This is why fan cars are banned from most forms of motorsport. byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED May 3, 2024 3:55 PM EDT McMurtry McMurtry Automotive uploaded a video of the Speirling lapping Silverstone during what appears to be a test day for GT3 cars. (There’s a winged Lamborghini Huracan, of which there is no GT4

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Polestar 2 Lease Deal Plummets to $299 a Month and Hey, That’s Not Bad

Polestar 2 Lease Deal Plummets to $299 a Month and Hey, That’s Not Bad

News → News by Brand → Polestar News Better yet, if you’re a Costco member, you can get the down payment lowered to about $1,000. byJosé Rodríguez Jr| PUBLISHED May 3, 2024 2:53 PM EDT Polestar Polestar is offering one of the best lease deals on a slick new EV right now as the former

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Fisker Is Parting Out Prototypes to Fix Broken Customer Cars: Report

Fisker Is Parting Out Prototypes to Fix Broken Customer Cars: Report

News → Car Tech → Electric Vehicles Fisker summons Warranty Repair from the Graveyard! No really—that’s what Fisker calls its lot of unsellable cars. byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED May 2, 2024 3:20 PM EDT Fisker Things are going from bad to worse at Fisker. As cash runs short, the company is getting desperate for income, slashing

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Add Gigacasting to the List of Things Tesla Has Given Up On

Add Gigacasting to the List of Things Tesla Has Given Up On

News → News by Brand → Tesla News Tesla’s plan to cast entire chassis was supposed to revolutionize carmaking, but now the company’s reportedly lost faith in the tech. byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED May 1, 2024 3:07 PM EDT Tesla One of the technologies that’s supposed to sustain Tesla’s lead for the next generation of electric

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A Performance EV Lurks Under the Shell of This EV-Swapped Toyota Tacoma

A Performance EV Lurks Under the Shell of This EV-Swapped Toyota Tacoma

News → Culture → Builds A Model 3 Performance drivetrain helps this Taco scoot from 0-60 mph in just 3.5 seconds. byJosé Rodríguez Jr| PUBLISHED May 1, 2024 11:04 AM EDT Cars & Bids The Toyota Tacoma has finally gone hybrid for this current generation, but it’s anyone’s guess when the truck will go fully

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Here’s How the Tesla Cybertruck’s Big Off-Road Update Compares to Rivian R1T

Here’s How the Tesla Cybertruck’s Big Off-Road Update Compares to Rivian R1T

News → News by Brand → Tesla News Armed with long-awaited trail-centric features like locking diffs, the Cybertruck can finally take it to its archrival. byJames Gilboy| PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2024 5:00 PM EDT Top Gear The Cybertruck’s off-road functionality has been added in a patch detailed in a post on X, which appears to

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The Jeep Recon Might Not Be Electric-Only After All

The Jeep Recon Might Not Be Electric-Only After All

News → News by Brand → Jeep News The Recon was supposed to usher in the EV era for Jeep, but the brand is having second thoughts. byJosé Rodríguez Jr| PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2024 4:00 PM EDT Jeep From the beginning, it seemed the Jeep Recon was conceived of as one of Jeep’s standard-bearers for

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Feds Investigating Hands-Free Driving Tech in Every Mustang Mach-E After Fatal Crashes

Feds Investigating Hands-Free Driving Tech in Every Mustang Mach-E After Fatal Crashes

News → News by Brand → Ford News The NHTSA wants to know why Ford’s full suite of active safety technologies failed in a pair of deadly crashes. byNico DeMattia| PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2024 1:00 PM EDT Ford. Back in February, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) learned of the first of two recent

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