Various factors, including AI and Chinese competition are spurring the need for greater collaboration between tech, automakers and suppliers.
VW said operating profits dived 9.5% in the 2nd quarter while sales for 2026 would slip 3%, reversing an earlier positive prediction. Will this weaken union negotiators?
The carmaker has said it’s owed a refund in the “tens of millions of dollars.”
Tesla’s electronic door handles that have been linked to several deaths could lead to tougher safety rules for the entire auto industry. In a notice published today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that complaints about Tesla’s mechanical door release don’t warrant a defect investigation. Instead, the issue is better addressed through a broader […]
Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.
The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck inside cars.
In an earnings call yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk did his best to paint a positive portrait of the company’s robotaxi program. New cities are being added, more miles are being driven, and more people are experiencing Tesla’s unsupervised vehicles. But Musk’s typical bullishness seemed to be absent from the call, as the occasional trillionaire […]
The number of paid robotaxi miles traveled fell 36% in the second quarter, despite expanding to new cities, according to Tesla’s own figures.
Ford is the first automaker to use a new set of developer tools that will let it embed Apple Maps navigation and mapping directly into its vehicles’ infotainment systems.
Ford plans to embed Apple Maps directly into its Universal Electric Vehicle Platform, which will start with a $30,000 midsize pickup truck set for release in 2027. In an announcement on Thursday, Ford says it will use Apple Maps to offer “turn-by-turn directions using natural language, real-time traffic and incident information, intuitive search featuring detailed […]