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Sky-High Depreciation and Repair Bills Force Hertz to Sell 30k EVs
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, May 1, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup...
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Elon Musk Took $17M in Federal Charging Grants Before Firing Supercharger Team
Tesla announced Tuesday that it will lay off everyone who works on both the new vehicle...
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SpaceX Employees Are Getting Hurt in Alarming Numbers
SpaceX employees are sustaining an outrageous amount of injuries, once again exceeding the industry average in...
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Tesla Cybertruck No Match for Car Wash
After just a couple of months and a few thousand miles of ownership, Tik Tok user...
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$10M in Gold Disguised as Machine Parts Seized from Cargo Plane
Customs officials in Hong Kong seized 146 kilograms of gold late last month, worth an estimated...
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Tesla Model 3 Traps TikToker Inside 115-Degree Car During a Software Update
A TikToker got locked inside of her Tesla Model 3 for 40 minutes in the hot...
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Texas Legalizes Kei Trucks
Japan’s unique keitora class of compact truck has proven a hit among American imported car fanatics,...
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Tesla Cancels Mass-Market $25,000 Car, Musk Says This Is a Lie
A mass-market, low-cost electric family car has long been touted as the holy grail of EVs...
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Feds Can Film Your Front Porch for 68 Days Without a Warrant, Says Court
Law enforcement in Kansas recorded the front of a man’s home for 68 days straight, 15...
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Cybertruck Engineer Begs Owners to Stop Shooting and Abusing Their Trucks
Elon Musk opened a can of worms when he originally showed the Cybertruck in late 2019....
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EVs Will Soon Be Cheaper to Make Than Gas Cars but Will Cost Much More to Repair
The cost of making EVs is decreasing faster than the industry anticipated. EV production will reach...
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European Audi A3 Buyers Have to Subscribe to Use Basic Car Features
With the future looking to be served by all-electric vehicles that have fewer moving parts that...
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It's Time for the Chicken Tax to Die
The Chicken Tax has been around since 1963, pushing a crushing 25 percent tariff on imports...
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Can We Just Throw in the Towel on Airport Security Theater Already?
The Transportation Security Administration is testing new self-screening checkpoint lanes at Harry Reid International Airport in...
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New EVs Still Can't Beat the Efficiency of a Plug-In Hybrid
The Toyota Prius Prime has beat out the latest EVs for the title of greenest car....
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Hack Your Way to the Superior Euro Headlights NHTSA Doesn't Want You to Have
To understand why I decided to break into the software configurations on my Polestar 2, I...
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Automatic Gears Are the 20-Year-Old Bike Tech Nobody Asked For
If you’ve got a bike, there’s a good chance it’s set up with a derailleur at...
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Tesla's Cybertrucks are rusting despite stainless steel
It seems the stainless steel panels of the Tesla Cybertruck are not really stain “less,” and...
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Porsche can't sell most of its cars in the U.S. because of chip source
The global economy is a complex and constantly moving entity, which frequently causes companies to reevaluate...
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Tesla Cybertruck's Aero Wheel Covers Are Chewing Up the Custom Tires
The Tesla Cybertruck is probably the most controversial vehicle launched in a decade due to its...
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Las Vegas, Home of Bad Ideas, Goes All-In on Elon's Dumb Tunnels
Las Vegas seems to be on a roll with bad ideas lately. There’s the whole debacle...
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Federal Killjoys Tell States to Stop Putting Jokes in Highway Signage
An arm within the U.S. Department of Transportation called the Federal Highway Administration has declared that...
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Hertz Is Selling Its Fleet of Rental Tesla Model 3s for Cheap
After Hertz’s full-scale EV adoption plan resulted in its fleet of new Tesla Model 3s getting...
