Transportation

It's shaping up to be the summer of dueling seven-figure electrified hypercars. But perhaps it's more of a sibling rivalry, as the Rimac Nevera and Pininfarina Battista share common DNA. Rimac said Tuesday that its $2.5 million 1,914-horsepower Nevera has begun rolling off t

Vietnamese EV maker VinFast said Thursday it received $1.2 billion in incentives to build a factory in North Carolina. The incentive package represents the state's largest-ever economic development project and its aspirations to build North Carolina into a hub for the clean energy economy.

Nuro, the autonomous vehicle delivery startup that is valued at more than $8.6 billion, is closing its Phoenix facility as it shifts its commercial strategy away from the desert metropolis and toward the San Francisco Bay Area and Houston. Nuro told employees that the Phoenix Depot location would b

Hyundai unveiled its new Ioniq 6, a sedan that it says will deliver range on par with the Tesla Model 3, issuing a direct challenge to the best-selling battery-electric sedan on the market. The Ioniq 6 — the follow-up to Hyundai's Ioniq 5 SUV and the second model in its Ioniq EV sub-brand

Food and grocery delivery company DoorDash is raising the bar for orders through its subscription service DashPass. According to an email update, starting August 12, “DashPass subtotal minimums may increase and vary by store, city and time of day…” DashPass subscribers pay $9.99 p

Walmart kicked off a deal with electric vehicle company Canoo on Tuesday to purchase 4,500 of its last-mile delivery vehicles. While the deal is not exclusive, it does prevent Canoo from making sales to Walmart’s rival Amazon. Walmart’s agreement to purchase up to 10,000 electric vans f

Andrej Karpathy, the deep learning and computer vision expert who was hired five years ago as Tesla’s director of AI and led Autopilot vision team, is officially leaving the company. Karpathy was on a four-month leave of absence, fueling widespread speculation as to whether he would return.

"http://localhost:81/images/resimler/speakable-summary">Uber is facing lawsuits from as many as 550 women passengers across the U.S. who have alleged they were assaulted by drivers on the platform. The initial complaint, which was filed in San Francisco County Superior Court on Wednesday by attorney

Panasonic said Wednesday it plans to build the world's largest EV battery plant, a $4 billion factory in Kansas that will manufacture and supply lithium-ion batteries to EV makers. The factory is slated to be larger than the Gigafactory it operates with Tesla in Sparks, Nevada, which is already

Arrival, the U.K.-based commercial EV company, plans to slash costs and cut as much as 30% of its workforce as it attempts to protect the business from a challenging economic environment while meeting its production targets. The company, which went public last year via a merger with a special purp

Polestar, the electric vehicle maker that made its Nasdaq debut in June, said Wednesday it is on track to meet its annual sales target. For the first half of 2022, Polestar delivered approximately 21,200 cars, more than twice as many as the 9,510 cars it posted for the same period in 2021. The comp

Shared micromobility giant Lime is finally bringing on some of its own city-appeasing advanced rider assistance system (ARAS) technology. At a Lime event in Paris, the startup shared plans to pilot an in-house built computer vision platform that will leverage cameras to detect when users are riding

Tesla is laying off 229 data annotation employees who are part of the company’s larger Autopilot team and is shuttering the San Mateo, California office where they worked, according to a regulatory filing. technewss previously reported that nearly 200 employees were being laid off, accordin

The $2.5 million Rimac Nevera all-electric hypercar has begun rolling off the assembly line, launching on the world stage as the fastest production car and an emblem of the Croatian EV maker's advanced battery technology. The sleek, low-slung 1,914-horsepower two-seater is the first model to te