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The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is running a private rocket company, doubling down on alternative fuels and pressing on with Tesla after a series of accidents.

In California, state subsidies for hydrogen filling stations are encouraging clean-energy advocates to try fuel-cell vehicles.

An Italian classic returns by way of Japan. More than a simple re-skin of Mazda’s MX-5 Miata, Fiat’s 124 Spider has a turbo engine and a personality of its own.

In a blog post, Mr. Musk says nothing about the Autopilot controversy, while envisioning a future of self-driving buses and tractor-trailers.

General Motors raised its forecast for full-year profits after reporting a record second-quarter profit that handily beat Wall Street expectations.

The carmaker said it would subtract about $2.4 billion from profit in the second quarter of 2016, an admission that money already set aside would not be enough.

The suits claim the decision to thwart pollution tests involved dozens of engineers and managers, and reached into the company’s boardroom.

The S.E.C. is asking whether the automaker has improperly inflated its monthly vehicle sales totals, potentially misleading investors.

Two federal agencies said in a report that it was unlikely the industry could meet the government’s ambitious projections a decade from now.

The company had long resisted settling the case of Patricia Mincey of Florida, who was paralyzed after the airbag in her Honda Civic forcefully deployed.