Grok Voice Mode finally arrives on CarPlay, in case you enjoy talking to a loud-mouth AI in your car

xAI has launched Grok Voice Mode on Apple CarPlay, bringing hands-free AI conversations to millions of drivers with Grok’s signature sarcastic personality.

Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”
Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, Uber’s autonomous vehicle partner, after identifying 16 crashes and one minor injury in the four months since the company launched its robotaxi service in Dalla…

BMW iX3 has a lower starting price than comparable gas-powered X3
BMW iX3 has a lower starting price than comparable gas-powered X3

The 2027 BMW iX3 is now available in the US, and its starting price my surprise and delight fans of the Bavarian automaker. The iX3, which is the first vehicle built on BMW’s next-gen Neue Klasse platform, starts at $62,850 including shipping, which is about $5,000 less than the equivalent gas-powered BMW X3 M50 xDrive […]

The rise of AI Orchestration Layers: BadCo.AI on guiding a more connected car buying experience
The rise of AI Orchestration Layers: BadCo.AI on guiding a more connected car buying experience

The future of automotive retail may depend less on isolated AI tools and more on orchestration systems that connect every part of the buyer journey. BadCo.AI views the future of car buying as a rapidly evolving ecosystem shaped by connected technologie…

Dreame wants to kit you out with a smartphone, a smart ring, and a rocket-powered sports car

Dreame Technology unveiled two smartphones, three AI smart rings, and a rocket-powered sports car at its DREAME NEXT event in San Francisco last week, marking the home appliance brand’s entry into categories it has never competed in before.

Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.
Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.

When Rivian went public in November 2021, Amazon owned 20 per cent of the company. It had backed the electric vehicle startup with a 700 million dollar cheque in 2019, ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans, and watched its investment surge to more tha…

Inside the lab where Ford is trying to crack the code on cheap EVs
Inside the lab where Ford is trying to crack the code on cheap EVs

Ford isn’t sending the clearest signals regarding its EV future. We got a glimpse of its Universal EV (UEV) Project last February, but then it pulled the plug on the F-150 Lightning, which is regarded as one of the more successful electric pickup trucks to date. The climate surrounding electric vehicles hasn’t helped, either, between […]

Samsung reveals sharp stretchable display that’s ready for your car’s dashboard

Samsung Display’s sharper Stretchable Display 2.0 reaches 200 PPI and reshapes dashboard graphics around driving conditions, offering a clearer preview of how future car instrument clusters could become more adaptive.

Rivian achieved a 50% lower cost in making the R2 EVs. Let’s hope the benefits pass on to buyers

Rivian says the R2 costs over 50% less to build than its R1 vehicles, a major step toward cheaper EVs if buyers see the benefit.

Every AI company now wants to ride shotgun. The car dashboard is becoming the last screen that matters.
Every AI company now wants to ride shotgun. The car dashboard is becoming the last screen that matters.

The Grok iOS app now contains a placeholder that reads “Grok Voice mode coming soon to CarPlay.” It is a single line of interface text, and it means that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is about to follow ChatGPT and Perplexity onto the car dashboards of every …