Volvo AB leading in bringing Autonomous Trucks, where these trucks could be game changers halving per mile costs to $11.35 – $1.35 and capital payment within 1.5 years.
Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company’s financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and dri…

As the US war on Iran sent gas prices soaring, American car buyers flocked to electric vehicles – and in particular hybrids. After a sluggish winter and fall, EV sales rebounded in the second quarter of 2026, with automakers posting some of their best numbers since the elimination of the federal EV tax credit last […]

Today, I’m talking with Xinzhou Wu, who is the head of automotive at Nvidia. Nvidia is obviously in the news constantly because of the AI boom — it’s one of the most valuable companies in the world, because the AI industry can’t get enough of the company’s GPUs. But Nvidia is also a key supplier […]
This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market’s appetite for the company’s “fly, fail, fix” approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.
The LAPD, one of Flock’s biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at California’s new EV rebates and Peak Energy’s sodium-ion battery plans
Washington, D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo’s competing views.

Waze is getting an AI makeover. Google is integrating its flagship AI assistant, Gemini, into the driving app with the goal of letting users personalize their trips a little more. Of the four new updates, only two are being described as involving Gemini. Waze says its updating its conversation reporting feature, first introduced in 2024, […]
The 2026 Cadillac Optiq is an aggressively priced, compact luxury EV. With a bonus: standard vehicle autonomy. Dare I say it competes with the Tesla Model Y?