Mercedes-Benz to access Tesla Superchargers in N. America from 2024
German automaker Mercedes-Benz said its drivers will get access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers in North America starting in 2024.
How credit cards help my family travel
Before having kids, my husband and I loved to travel. When our family grew, we agreed that we wanted to continue to prioritize exploring the world as much as we could. Unlike it may seem on Instagram, no one comes with a magic wand and whisks us away on vacation — we make sacrifices to design these experiences, and we work hard to make them happen.
Now that we’re paying for four, credit cards play a major role in our ability to swing our travel, but perhaps not in the way you might think. We don’t rack up debt, and because we pay our bills in full each month, we don’t pay any interest. Instead, we rely heavily on the points and miles that we largely earn from credit card rewards. And with the national average domestic airline itinerary fare hovering just below $400 in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the Department of Transportation, every bit we can defray helps.
Here are some of the ways that credit cards help make our family’s travel dreams a reality — for a fraction of the out-of-pocket cost.
How e-fuel could extend the life of ICE vehicles in the electric age
Porsche, Stellantis, Ferrari, BMW and other automakers are taking a hard look at carbon neutral e-fuel to extend the life of the internal combustion powertrains in their sports cars and pickups.
Biden taps a Michigan native to smooth upcoming UAW talks
Michigan native Gene Sperling, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, is being tapped to coordinate the administration’s bid to facilitate smooth contract talks between the Detroit Three automakers and United Auto Workers union.
Sperling is the White House’s coordinator of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package enacted in 2021. He directed the National Economic Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, making him one of the defining economic policymakers of the past several decades.
“As a White House point person on key issues related to the UAW and Big 3, Sperling will help ensure administration-wide coordination across interested parties and among White House policymakers. Gene will work hand-in-glove with Acting (Labor) Secretary Julie Su on all labor-related issues,” a White House official said in a statement to Crain’s Detroit Business. The official requested anonymity to confirm the move that was first reported by Politico.
Contracts with General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, which together employ about 150,000 auto workers, expire on Sept. 14. Negotiations are to start sometime in mid-July, but no specific dates have been released.
Tesla, looking to conquest, dangles cash bonus in key markets
In China, EV maker offers new buyers of top-selling EVs a cash bonus equivalent to almost $500 if they have a referral from an existing owner, deepening a price war.