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Prices for new and used vehicles are at an all time high.  The cost of borrowing money is also at an all time high, thanks to inflation.  These are challenging times for the budget-minded.  According to most money management professionals, consumers should keep their monthly vehicle payments to about 10 percent of income, yet most are way above that.   YIKES! 

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Tesla doesn't have a press fleet of vehicles for automotive journalists to review.  The company doesn't have a PR department or a media page either, which may explain the spotty coverage of the make over the years.  However, I was fortunate enough to spend some quality time with a Model Y offered up by a private owner at a press event in Wisconsin this past Spring.  These are my impressions. 

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Who cares about insurance, until you do?  The Insurance Information Institute shares several common mistakes homeowners make when it comes to their insurance coverage.  

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What makes Chinese EV maker BYD stand out is not how they scaled up production over the years, or their lower-than-average production costs, or the fact that they exported over 400,000 vehicles to other countries for sale, or even how they are currently building and selling commercial EV buses in the United States, but the investment in the company 14 years ago by Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway.  What are they going to do next? 

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Would you pay over $300,000 for a factory custom, Cadillac EV?  General Motors believes that there is a market at the high end of the luxury space that will justify just that.  We discuss. 

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Fisker Inc, a fledgling EV maker, is ramping up actual deliveries of its all new Ocean EV crossover SUV.  By the end of this year, the automaker expects to escalate its delivery rate to 300 vehicles a day.  Eschewing the heavy investment of a from-the-ground-up assembly plant and infrastructure, the company is relying on a well-known contract automaker to actually build the units. 

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EV batteries continue to evolve.  From packaging to content, to chemistries,  the traditional Lithium-Ion battery is not the only game in town.  We explore some alternative approaches that are yielding much more range and density. 

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CREATE, the Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program, is a consortium of private, city, county, state and federal organizations working together to resolve bottlenecks at the heart of America's rail system in the Chicago metro area.  The interesting thing is that they have been working at this successfully for over 20 years.  We take a peek at how they do it. 

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Its over.  Volvo Cars plans to end production of all diesel powered Volvo Car models by early next year.  While diesel-powered cars have not generally been a thing in the United States, its popularity was huge in Europe.   As late as 2019, the majority of Volvo cars sold in Europe were diesel powered.  That day, is coming to a close. 

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Its been around for over 100 years, first getting its start in the Outback of Australia.  Now a world-wide phenomenon, overlanding is an extreme form of off-roading that tests both man and machine, for months and sometimes years at a time.  We take a look. 

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