Uber unveils new products for business travelers, wedding parties, and EVs
Uber is rolling out nearly a dozen new features aimed at business travelers, large group rides, electric vehicles, and autonomous delivery. Uber held...
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Elon Musk's Tesla puts India entry plan on hold after deadlock on tariffs
For months, Tesla had scouted for real estate options to open showrooms and service centres in the key Indian cities of New Delhi, Mumbai and...
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Google updates Android Auto to better fit all the different sized touchscreens in cars today
Google is updating Android Auto to better fit all the different sized infotainment screens found in cars today. The split-screen display will now be...
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Rivian issues recall for R1T electric truck over faulty airbag sensors
Rivian issued a recall for some of its R1T electric trucks because sensors weren’t deactivating the airbag when a child was sitting in the...
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EV company Lordstown completes $230 million sale of its Ohio factory to Foxconn
Lordstown completed the sale of its EV factory to iPhone assembler Foxconn. The $230 million deal includes a joint venture to build Lordstown’s...
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Rivian lost $1.59 billion and delivered 1,227 electric trucks in the first quarter of 2022
Rivian lost $1.59 billion on $95 million of revenue in the first three months of 2022. The company also delivered 1,227 electric trucks to customers....
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Volkswagen reportedly will resurrect Scout as an off-road EV brand for the US
Volkswagen is considering resurrecting the Scout brand as an electric off-road vehicle for US customers. The company wants to compete with Jeep and...
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Ford F-150 Lightning first drive: quiet storm
The Ford F-150 Lightning is a fun, familiar, and occasionally thrilling electric truck. And while there are some tradeoffs, Ford stuck to the basics...
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Tesla recalls 130,000 vehicles to fix touchscreen issues caused by an overheating CPU
Tesla is recalling 130,000 vehicles for an issue causing the CPU inside cars’ infotainment systems to overheat when fast charging. This could cause...
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EV startup Canoo is running out of cash and doubtful about its future
Canoo says it has "doubts" about its ability to stay financially solvent, according to the EV startup’s most recent earnings report....
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Tesla reportedly stops production at its troubled Shanghai plant
Tesla has suspended most operations at its factory in Shanghai due to issues procuring supplies. The company only produced 10,757 vehicles at the...
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Toyota announces investment of Rs 4,800 crore to build EV parts, green tech in India
As part of the MoU, Toyota Group of Companies will invest towards realizing the goal of making India a manufacturing hub. Toyota has...
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Bollinger selects manufacturing supplier to help build its electric commercial vehicles
Bollinger has selected Roush as its contract manufacturer to help build its forthcoming lineup of electric commercial vehicles. Electric vehicle...
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Some new BMWs will reportedly come without Android Auto and Apple CarPlay
BMW is reportedly shipping some new vehicles without Android Auto and Apple CarPlay due to issues related to the chip shortage. BMW is temporarily...
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Lucid raises its EV prices as the company continues to struggle with production
Lucid Motors is raising the prices of its luxury electric vehicles as it continues to struggle to get cars off the assembly line. On average, the...
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Ford files patent application for remote engine revving system
Ford filed a patent application for a new remote engine revving technology. The vehicle’s engine could be triggered using a key fob, for example....
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Microsoft teams up with VW to make HoloLens work in cars
Microsoft has announced a new "moving platform" feature for the HoloLens 2. It’s designed to let the augmented reality headset work when...
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VW’s 2022 supply of EVs is ‘basically sold out’ in the US and Europe
Volkswagen’s CEO says the company is "basically sold out" of electric vehicles in the US and Europe, as the auto industry struggles with...
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Tesla Model S with motorized tilting screen spotted in the wild
A Model S with a factory-equipped motorized, swiveling center screen has been spotted in the wild. It can be seen tilting the display from center, to...
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The Verge’s favorite gadgets for your car
Cars have become bastions of electronic gadgetry. Here are some of the gadgets that staffers at The Verge have used to upgrade their various...
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Rivian wins $1.5 billion tax incentive package to build an EV factory in Georgia
Rivian will get $1.5 billion in tax incentives to build a new electric vehicle factory in Georgia. The deal is one of the largest corporate benefits...
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The future of electric vehicles is this 44-year-old pickup truck
Ford built an electric 1978 F-100 restomod that uses the company's new crate motor instead of donor Tesla motors like other restomods. It...
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Ford did what Tesla won’t
Inside this 1978 F-100 pickup truck is Ford’s electric crate motor, the same electric motor that is in the all-electric Mustang GT. And it’s a...
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Ford says the F-150 Lightning is more powerful than it originally announced
Ford has announced that its F-150 Lightning electric truck will have even more horsepower than it originally announced, and that at least one version...
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Baidu and Pony.ai become first robotaxi services to operate without safety drivers in Beijing
Baidu and Pony.ai have been given permission to operate without safety drivers in Yizhuang, Beijing, making them the first companies in China to...
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16 states sue to block USPS plan to buy hundreds of thousands of gas-guzzling mail trucks
Sixteen states sued the US Postal Service in an effort to block its plan to purchase 148,000 gas-guzzling mail trucks over the next decade. Sixteen...
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GM denies reports about Spark EV battery replacements, blames supply disruption
GM has denied reports from last week that it’s no longer producing replacement battery packs for the Spark EV. The company does admit that it’s...
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Justin Lin won’t be directing Fast X after all
Though Fast X is already slated to hit theaters on May 19th, 2023, Justin Lin has announced that he’ll no longer be directing the movie. Though...
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