Enlarge (credit: Waymo) Last year was the most significant yet in Waymo’s 11-year effort to develop a driverless car. The Google sister company raised $3.2 billion, signed deals with several partners, and launched the world’s first truly driverless taxi service in Phoenix, Arizona. Even so, the widespread rollout of fully autonomous vehicles remains slow, staggered, […]
Enlarge (credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) For the past few years, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has been looking to get married. After its advances were spurned by the likes of General Motors and Volkswagen, a merger with France’s Renault looked possible, until the death of FCA boss Sergio Marchionne in 2018. Then, in October, news […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) A few years ago I started writing regularly about electric cars and the batteries that power them—technologies that are helping humanity transition away from reliance on fossil fuels. And as bad news continued to pile up about the harms caused by climate change, I started to think harder […]
Enlarge / The parking lot of Tesla’s Shanghai factory was full of new cars in October 2020. (credit: Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) Tesla smashed previous production and delivery records in the fourth quarter of 2020, shipping more than 180,000 vehicles to customers over the last three months. That’s 30 percent higher than Tesla’s Q3 […]
Enlarge (credit: Collage by Aurich Lawson) Like most of us, 2020 turned out quite differently than we might have expected back in January. By the end of February, it was clear that COVID-19 was going to be a serious problem as auto shows and drive events started being cancelled en masse. But our local press […]
Enlarge / The garbage truck was supposed to be based on the same platform as the forthcoming Nikola Tre battery electric semi truck. (credit: Nikola) Another established company has backed away from struggling electric truck maker Nikola, sending the latter’s stock price down by 18 percent over two days of trading. Nikola’s stock value is […]
Expand / A Tesla Model 3 has been observed in the overall assembly line in the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, in July 2018. (charge: Mason Trinca for The Washington Post through Getty Images) A number of decades back, Elon Musk attempted to appeal Apple CEO Tim Cook in purchasing Tesla, Musk said in a […]
Nikola Motor, also a prospective Tesla competition that has faced a series of embarrassing disasters because entering public markets only more than half a year ago, declared another one this afternoon. Republic Services, a massive waste management firm, has continued an order for 2,500 zero-emissions trash trucksa bargain which Nikola in the time called that […]
No, you are not confused, we did examine a 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S only over one year ago. But we are revisiting that version again now. Through time, the Porsche 911 Carrera has shifted. The shape might still be exactly the same, the motor remains in the trunk, and after all the decades, it […]
Expand (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) Apple will start selling and building a vehicle over the next four decades. Based on Reuters, the automobile may (or might not) utilize self-driving technologies manufactured by Apple, and it might (or may not) require a”breakthrough” battery layout that will be more economical and provide wider range […]