Tesla has said Cybercab employee rides are starting soon at its Texas factory. The announcement came with a clip of a gold Cybercab, butterfly doors up and no steering wheel or pedals, driving itself across the outbound lot, Mashable reports. Note the …
For more than a decade, the biggest fight in self-driving cars has played out in boardrooms and engineering labs. New Jersey now wants to settle it in law. A bill moving through the state legislature would force any company running fully driverless car…
Two 15-year-olds in San Mateo learned this week that a driverless taxi can still tell on you. The pair were drinking alcohol and shooting Orbeez, soft water-filled pellets, out of a moving Waymo on Monday afternoon. The car’s remote monitors spotted it…
Aidoptation can now test a fully self-driving car at highway speed on Belgian public roads. It is the first Level 4 permit of its kind in the European Union. The company announced the approval, which covers 100 km of the E313 and E314 motorways in Limb…
Freight rail is often described as the most energy-efficient way to move goods over land, yet it still runs on one of the dirtiest inputs in modern infrastructure: diesel. As rail operators face mounting pressure from volatile fuel costs, tightening em…
General Motors sold roughly 14,000 Chevrolet Silverado EVs in the United States and Canada last year, according to GM Authority sales data. The petrol-powered Silverado moves more than ten times that volume in a single quarter. That gap, between what r…
Tesla has launched the Model Y Long Wheelbase in the United States and Puerto Rico, a stretched, six-seat version of the world’s best-selling electric vehicle that adds a third row and marks the company’s most significant Model Y expansion since its re…
A former software manager at Wisk Aero, Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary, has filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired after raising internal safety concerns about reduced software testing, the Seattle Times first reported. Briahna O’Neill filed t…
Lucid Motors said on Thursday that its chief financial officer, Taoufiq Boussaid, will be leaving the company, the latest in a series of leadership changes under new CEO Silvio Napoli. Alexander De Bock, a veteran automotive finance executive who previ…
Ford reported a 10.3% decline in US new vehicle sales for the second quarter, selling 549,200 vehicles compared with 612,095 a year earlier. Pure EV sales plunged 40.7% year on year. F-Series truck sales, including the F-150, fell 11% after Ford’s top …