Since 2018, Californians have bought luxury vehicles worth over $20 million in sales-tax-free Montana, exploiting a loophole that avoided millions of dollars in levies, an investigation revealed.
Category: Automobiles
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Have a Montana License Plate in California? Officials Have an Eye on You.
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A Wink, a Nod or a Duck: The Secrets Behind Car Owners’ Secret Handshakes
The New York Times – Business:It’s more than the Jeep Wave: Miatas can wink with their pop-up headlights, and Porsche owners have their own waves, but only for the right cars.
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Ford and G.M. Face a Dilemma as China Excels in Electric Vehicles
The New York Times – Business:General Motors, Ford and other established automakers risk becoming relics if they don’t catch up to Chinese carmakers and technology companies in electric vehicles and self-driving cars.
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Blaming Tariffs, Aston Martin to Trim 20% of Its Work Force
The New York Times – Business:The luxury automaker said losses for 2025 had increased from the year before, as tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty take a toll on its operations.
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Wayve, an A.I. Driverless Car Start-Up in Europe, Raises $1.2 Billion
The New York Times – Business:The London-based company is building a system that uses artificial intelligence to power autonomous vehicles.
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Uber Taking Steps to Expand Number of EV Chargers Near Its Drivers
The New York Times – Business:The company said it would encourage companies that operated chargers to install them in neighborhoods where its drivers lived and work.
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Trump Administration Ends Credit for Start-Stop Feature in Cars
The New York Times – Business:Manufacturers will no longer get a credit toward vehicle emissions standards by installing engines that automatically stop at red lights.
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Laid-Off Battery Plant Workers Pin Blame on Ford, not Trump, for Lost Jobs
The New York Times – Business:Ford Motor shut down a battery factory and laid off 1,600 workers after President Trump and Republicans gutted government support for electric vehicles.
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Ford Will Make a Play for a Different Battery Market
The New York Times – Business:The company, long focused on cars and trucks, plans to begin manufacturing large batteries used by utilities, data centers, other businesses and homeowners.
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Tesla’s Model S, Soon to Be History, Changed the Auto Industry
The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said this week that it would stop making the car, an electric pioneer in 2012, as well as the Model X.
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Tesla Profit Slumps, but Investors May Not Care
The electric vehicle maker’s shares are near record highs as Wall Street focuses on the company’s plans for robots and self-driving cars.
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G.M. Shares Rise as Investors Are Encouraged by 2026 Prospects
The automaker said that it would buy back stock worth up to $6 billion and that it expected profit to rise this year after it pulled back from electric vehicle production.