Toyota will put a rival to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving on its 2028 models and sell it as “Level 2++“, a marketing label that keeps the driver in charge, with a guardrail layer over the neural network. Europe approves this class of system under UN Regulat…
Waymo opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, and Denver is its first commercial deployment in a city with real snowfall. Under EU rules an automated driving system’s weather envelope is part of a type-approved operational design domain…
Oslo had 120,469 electric cars at the end of 2025, nearly half its passenger fleet, and about 78% of its 4,519 public charging points are slow AC units placed where people already park. The EU’s own right to plug sits in Article 14(8) of the recast bui…
Automakers keep shoving more tech into their cars, despite evidence that consumers are increasingly fed up with huge screens and glitchy software. In fact, the features that car owners appreciate the most happen to be the ones they barely notice, according to the latest tech survey from JD Power. The consumer research firm surveyed 68,084 […]
Eighteen months after their merger fell apart over who would control whom, Honda and Nissan have agreed to share the software inside their cars. The two signed a joint development agreement on Monday covering electronic control units, an in-vehicle ope…
Four Chinese ministries have begun a yearlong vehicle quality campaign that bars carmakers from changing technical parameters through over-the-air updates after test samples are sealed, with penalties including suspension from the product catalogue. A …
Lucid is recalling 27,185 Air sedans because the software eFuse protecting their exterior lighting circuits can allow overheating, with owners told to park away from structures until the car is updated. The filing records three fires and four smoke inc…
BMW has delivered its two millionth fully electric vehicle, an i5 M60 xDrive built at Dingolfing and handed to a customer in Spain. Europe accounted for 81,445 of the 116,807 battery-electric cars the group sold in the second quarter. BMW has handed ov…
BYD says it drove a randomly selected Yangwang U7 for 30,000 kilometres over nine days with 350 ultra-fast charging stops, and the battery retained 98.7% of its capacity. Euro 7 will require new car types to keep 80% of original capacity after five yea…
Rivian’s chief financial officer Claire McDonough is leaving at the end of October after nearly six years, to take the same role at energy equipment maker GE Vernova. Volkswagen, now Rivian’s largest shareholder, has committed up to $5.8B to their join…