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A new partnership with Stripe will help Ford expand its capability for e-commerce and dealership transactions such as vehicle reservations.

Dealers will go to great lengths to source used cars and trucks to stock their lots this year.

WASHINGTON — Large private companies, for now, will be able to set their own work force vaccination and testing requirements voluntarily, following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week that blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a federal mandate.

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued an emergency temporary standard in November that would have required companies with 100 or more employees to ensure their workers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or require them to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis.

The mandate would have affected more than 84 million U.S. workers.

But the court may have left open the possibility for OSHA to issue a narrower set of regulations targeted at certain work environments, including manufacturing.

“Where the virus poses a special danger because of the particular features of an employee’s job or workplace, targeted regulations are plainly permissible,” according to the court’s opinion. read more

Tesla will soon open a factory in Texas to feed U.S. demand for its premium EVs. But even without the new plant, the automaker may have already snatched the luxury crown from BMW.