Car
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Economy
How Electric Car Batteries Might Aid the Grid (and Win Over Drivers)
Automakers are exploring energy storage as a way to help utilities and save customers money, turning an expensive component into…
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Economy
Electric Cars Are Suddenly Becoming Affordable
More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance…
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World
The Very Slow Restart of G.M.’s Cruise Driverless Car Business
An incident that seriously injured a pedestrian in San Francisco led Cruise to take all of its cars off the…
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World
‘Not Everything Was Bad’: Saluting the Mercedes of Eastern Europe and a Communist Past
A festival of classic cars from the communist era brings out some nostalgia in eastern Germany for pre-unification days, although…
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World
How Lowriders Put a Vivid Stamp on New York City’s Car Scene
Growing up in Mexico, Marco Flores fantasized about the lowrider cars he saw in magazines, studying their colorful bodies and…
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World
Don’t Slam the Door on Inexpensive Chinese Electric Vehicles
President Biden came out swinging this week when he announced a series of steep tariffs on Chinese imports, including 25…
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Economy
Why Is Car Insurance So Expensive?
Soaring premiums have become a prominent driver of inflation, and insurers say that more increases could be on the way.…
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Economy
An Office With 128,000 Miles
As a reporter covering Texas, I ate, worked and slept in my trusty, company-issued Chevy. So allow me a moment…
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Economy
G.M. Will Retire the Chevrolet Malibu to Make More Electric Cars
The gasoline-powered Malibu was the last affordable sedan sold by Chevrolet, the General Motors brand, in the United States.
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Sports
Alpine Is Trying, It Really Is, to Win in Formula 1
The team keeps making changes, to its cars and to its team, but continues to struggle.