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A tough goodbye opens the show as we chart Bollinger Motors’ rise, pivot, and fall—from an elegant, fixable EV truck vision to an ambitious medium-duty chassis play that ran headlong into the realities of capital, volume, and time. We walk through the funding twists, the move from contract manufacturing to a dedicated plant, and why selling only a handful of vehicles can doom even smart engineering. It’s a candid look at what it really takes to build hardware in a deeply capital-intensive industry.

Next, a shocker many didn’t expect: congestion pricing is working in New York. One year after launch, Lower Manhattan saw millions fewer car trips, faster tunnels and bridges, cleaner air, and quicker buses—without the feared spillover traffic into surrounding neighborhoods. We break down the toll structure, the equity of investing revenue in New York City's public transportation system, and how escalating fees can keep traffic from creeping back. If you care about urban mobility, transit funding, and livable streets, these numbers matter.

Privacy gets equal billing under California’s new data broker deletion law. For the first time in the U.S., residents can require hundreds of brokers to wipe personal data and keep it wiped, shifting the burden from individuals to industry. We cover the limits, the daily fines that give the policy teeth, and why recurring deletion is essential in a constantly refreshed data market. It’s a real path to regaining control without spending hours on cryptic opt-outs.

We close by tackling AI’s accelerating role in insurance. Think underwriting powered by decades of climate and claims data, faster and more empathetic claims workflows, and the hard truth that some regions may become too risky to insure without policy changes or public backstops. Reinsurance pressures, state regulators, and model transparency collide here, and the outcomes will shape premiums, availability, and fairness.

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