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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

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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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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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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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U.S. Regulator Proposes Updated Rules for Autonomous Vehicles in Exchange for Data

The Truth About Cars

steering wheels and pedals) have to be given exceptions from the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) to legally operate in populated areas, NHTSA leadership believes that having access to the data they’ve collected will be useful in informing decisions on how the rules could be changed.

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It’s 2010 – Are YOU Ready for The Greenius Decade?

Creative Greenius

And since I am indeed The Greenius and I have legally laid claim to this decade, preempting all others, I can confidently lay this on you and you can take comfort knowing I’m on the case and will not let you down. 131 blog posts on this site in 2009 garnering a total of 58,826 page hits for the year.

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