Transportation

The UK’s App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU) staged a 24-hour strike Wednesday to demand Uber be held accountable for the findings of the Uber files, a trove of thousands of leaked confidential documents that show how the ride-hail company broke laws, secretly lobbied governments and exploi

Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant that has plowed money into AI and autonomous vehicle technology, unveiled Wednesday a new all-electric robotaxi that it plans to deploy at scale across China. Baidu will add the Apollo RT6 EV — a cross between an SUV and a minivan that comes with a detachabl

Tesla plans to increase the price of its branded “full self-driving” beta software, the advanced driver assistance system that CEO Elon Musk has said will mean the difference between the company “being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.” Tesla vehicles today come stan

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed Wednesday that the automaker aims to launch its long-awaited Cybertruck mid-2023. “We are still expecting to be in production with the Cybertruck in middle of next year,” Musk said during Tesla's second-quarter financial report. “We're very excited about

Tesla’s second-quarter earnings report tells a story of quarterly declines caused by production challenges and year-over-year growth. The company reported Wednesday a quarterly decline in revenue and earnings as supply chain constraints, inflation and an extended shutdown in China chipped awa

Volkswagen Group of America CEO Scott Keogh is stepping down to helm the automaker's Scout brand for battery-electric pickup trucks and SUVs. Keogh, who has served as president and chief executive of Volkswagen Group of America since 2018, will become Scout's president and CEO. He will be r

Toyota is partnering with Suzuki Motor Corporation, Daihatsu Motor Co. and Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies (CJPT) to build mini commercial electric vans next year, the Japanese automaker announced on Tuesday. Suzuki and Daihatsu will bring to the table their knowledge of manufacturing mi

Given the current state of the worldwide aviation industry, checking a bag may not be the best idea right now. But sometimes you don’t have a choice and soon, at least if you’re flying Alaska Airlines, the whole process of checking a bag may just become a little bit easier. After a tria

GM unveiled Monday evening the Chevrolet Blazer EV, an all-electric SUV with up to 320 miles of range and a starting price of $44,995 that CEO and Chairman Mary Barra hopes will supercharge her bid to surpass Tesla in U.S. EV sales by 2025. The Chevrolet Blazer EV, which will go on sale in 2023 as

Gbike, a South Korea-based micromobility Gcooter operator, is acquiring Hyundai Motor’s shared micromobility platform ZET as it wants to increase its market share and create technological synergies via ZET’s fleet management system.  Gbike CEO Walter Yoon told technewss that the dea

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is opening yet another special investigation into a Tesla vehicle crash, according to documents viewed by technewss. This time it involves the crash of a 2021 Tesla Model Y that killed a motorcyclist in California earlier this month. Reuters was t

If solving the problems of autonomous driving were a question of money, it’d have been solved long before now. That’s the primary argument of Don Burnette, co-founder and CEO of autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics, which has expanded its business and hit milestones with a fracti

Hyundai said Thursday it will begin building electric vehicles under its high-performance N brand created to compete with luxury sports cars from Mercedes-Benz and BMW. The automaker said the Ioniq 5 N, a high-performance version of its battery-electric SUV, will launch in 2023. Hyundai also premie

Someone claiming to be a Cruise employee sent an anonymous letter to a California regulatory agency raising concerns that the company is launching its robotaxi service too early. The employee cited the regularity of instances that Cruise robotaxis malfunction in some way and are left stranded on st