Enlarge / One of Waymo’s Jaguar I-Paces on the streets of San Francisco. (credit: Waymo) Waymo rides in San Francisco will start costing money soon, according to TechCrunch. The robotaxi spinoff from Alphabet has obtained a necessary permit from the California Public Utilities Commission that allows it to charge customers for their trips, something that […]
Enlarge / The Van Hool CX45E that completed the 1, 700-mile round trip. (credit: ABC Companies) An electric coach just completed a 1, 700-mile (2, 743-km) trip from Newark, California, to Seattle and back. The journey was a demonstration of battery-electric transport and was organized by the coach operator MTRWestern and ABC Companies, the US […]
Enlarge / The Cruise Origin. (credit: Cruise) GM’s Cruise subsidiary has petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for permission to put the driverless Cruise Origin into commercial service. Cruise announced the filing of its petition for approval on Friday, saying the car is “a zero-emission, shared, electric vehicle that has been purposefully designed […]
Enlarge / Tesla’s camera-only approach to driver assistance keeps landing it in trouble. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Tesla) Tesla is facing a new headache this week. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into a “phantom braking” problem after receiving hundreds of complaints from owners of recent Models 3 and Y. In […]
Enlarge / After 12 hours, the Tesla CEO deleted the Holocaust joke. (credit: Twitter) In the early hours of Thursday morning, Elon Musk tweeted a meme that compared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with Adolf Hitler. The tweet, replying to crypto coin enthusiasts, included a photo of Hitler with the phrase “stop comparing me to […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) What happens to an electric vehicle’s big slab of batteries once it no longer holds a sufficient charge? On Thursday, Redwood Materials moved that conversation forward with an announcement that it has started its EV battery recycling program, with Kia and Volvo as partners. US law requires a good EV’s traction […]
Enlarge / The new Porsche LMDh car, about to leave its garage at the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain. (credit: Porsche) Porsche’s next race car is so new that it still doesn’t have an official name. It’s not even due to enter its first race for more than 11 months. But there are few things […]
Enlarge / An Audi e-tron prototype on the highway in Europe lights its way ahead with adaptive beam headlights. (credit: Audi) The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is finally poised to legalize adaptive beam headlights in the US. On Tuesday, the NHTSA announced that it has issued a final rule that will update the Federal […]
Enlarge / A Polestar 5 chassis being wheeled around Polestar’s R&D center. (credit: Polestar) At some point this year, we expect to see Polestar’s next electric vehicle. It will be an electric SUV built in South Carolina, and it will be called the Polestar 3. But today’s news is actually about the Polestar after that SUV. […]
Enlarge / Will Aibo owners feel a touch of nostalgia watching the Kia Super Bowl LVI ad? (credit: Aurich Lawson | Kia) For some people—mostly those who aren’t football fans—the commercials that accompany the Super Bowl are as important as the game itself. In 2022, we got a conflicting vision of the future—almost all the […]