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Courts: Mahindra Can Continue Selling Roxor In the United States

The Truth About Cars

Indian automaker Mahindra has long sold the Roxor, a surprisingly strong lookalike of the Jeep Wrangler, but it has faced a legal challenge from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Jeep’s parent company. The courts ruled that Mahindra could continue selling the Roxor in the United States, but only the post-2020 version.

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Toyota-backed U.S. self-driving startup garners $67 million investment

Teslarati

May Mobility says it has technology that’s the equivalent of Level 4 automated driving, which means that the vehicles won’t be required to have a driver at certain points and in regions where it’s designated as legal, according to Society Automotive Engineers (SAE) autonomy designations.

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Tesla gets pressure from NY Retirement Fund over DFEH’s systemic racism allegations

Teslarati

“Information concerning complaints, legal disputes, and settlements (individually and in the aggregate) are of great interest, and often material to investors. In its blog post, Tesla noted that the DFEH has so far declined to provide the company with specific allegations or factual basis for its lawsuit.

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NHTSA Launches Investigation Into Amazon’s Self-Driving Zoox Division

The Truth About Cars

Amazon acquired Zoox in 2020 for $1.3 But one does wonder what exactly was going on in the Zoox instances, as the person who strikes the rear of another vehicle is typically the one held accountable in most legal cases. Similar criticisms were leveled at Cruise AVs before other roadway incidents became higher profile.

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Driving the sales of electric vehicles

Clean Car

So this blog is about how we accelerate the take up of EVs and how CleanCar can help. The UK Government has legally committed us to achieving a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. Most notably, in April 2020 a raft of tax related changes were brought in, which made huge changes to National Insurance and Benefit in Kind treatment of EVs.

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Former Lordstown CEO Given Permission to Buy Back Company Assets for $10 Million

The Truth About Cars

that inflated Lordstown Motors’ valuation in October 2020, Burns owned about 25 percent of the company stock. & With so many EV startups turning out to be little more than legal Ponzi schemes, many felt Lordstown had a real chance of producing something tangible. Burns eventually sold off his remaining equity in the company.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

Plug Me In

Adventures with public transport to EXPO 2020 Dubai Since my return in 2019, I’ve become an “ inspiring speaker ,” and in 2022, I received an invitation to speak at EXPO 2020 in Dubai. But according to the blogs I read, I had nothing to worry about. It’s legal to ride this train, it’s also free.