Transportation

We're still very much in the baby steps of drone delivery, at the moment. It's a category that's seen both its share of setbacks (Amazon layoffs) and milestones (Wing's 200,000th delivery). Understandably, not everyone is impressed with the idea of the notion, but a number of startu

Tesla is closing its Gigafactory Shanghai for the second time this month due to a surge in local COVID-19 cases. Volkswagen and General Motors said on Monday that their Shanghai operations have not been affected. Tesla's round-the-clock factory suspended production for four days beginning Monda

Shared micromobility company Bird is launching a limited pilot to test a battery-powered attachment for wheelchairs in an effort to increase accessible mobility for persons with disabilities. The new “adaptive program” will be a part of the New York City e-scooter pilot in the Bronx, wh

Kyte, the startup that delivers rental cars to customers’ doors, has raised $200 million in asset-backed credit financing from Goldman Sachs and Ares Global Management, money the company will use to pay for new vehicles that will fuel its expansion. Kyte, which is currently in 13 U.S. markets

Shared micromobility company Spin and ride-hailing company Lyft are partnering to bring Spin electric scooters to the Lyft app in 60 U.S. markets by the end of the year. The integration, which will enable users to not only find but also pay for scooters through Lyft’s app, will initially roll

NASA will be giving another company a chance to send a lander to the moon, nearly a year after the agency announced that SpaceX beat out competitors including Blue Origin and Boeing for the opportunity. Under the new plan, the agency will be opening up a second competition for a lander system for a

The new hybrid Hyundai Sonata has solar cells built into its roof. After baking in the sun all day, the car can add 3-4 miles to its range. That might sound underwhelming, but my EV discharges far more than 3-4 miles per day just sitting parked and doing whatever a Tesla does when it’s not be

Micromobility has faced multiple not-so-micro challenges in recent years. Aside from the difficulty to reach favorable unit economics inherent to the business itself, COVID-19 slashed ridership to a level that has still not fully recovered, making it difficult for many micromobility operators to re

Dan Ammann, the New Zealand native who served as CEO of autonomous vehicle company Cruise since 2019, has moved on to ExxonMobil, where he will be leading a new business focused on commercializing low-emission business opportunities in carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and low-emission fuels, ac

U.S. securities regulators on Tuesday said they have authority to subpoena Tesla CEO Elon Musk about his tweets and urged a federal judge not to let the executive get away with tweeting with abandon. Musk has called the actions of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which in 2018 required

Nvidia has launched a new mapping platform that will provide the autonomous vehicle industry with ground truth mapping coverage of over 300,000 miles of roadway in North America, Europe and Asia by 2024, founder and CEO Jensen Huang said at the company’s GTC event on Tuesday. The platform, du

Nvidia has added two electric vehicle makers to its portfolio of automotive companies adopting its Drive Hyperion platform, a compute and sensor toolkit that powers automated driving capabilities in everything from private passenger vehicles to robotaxis to autonomous trucks.  Chinese automaker BY

With its newly minted bi-directional charging capabilities, the Ford F-150 Lightning can now serve as a backup home power supply in a pinch. Soon, the automaker hopes it might do the same for your office space thanks to a new partnership with Cisco, makers of Webex conference software. Ford CEO Jim

Maserati unveiled Tuesday a prototype of its first all-electric vehicle, a midsized crossover called the Grecale that marks the next step in its plan to go fully electric by 2030. The Grecale is slated to debut in two flavors: gas and electric. Gas-engine versions will arrive later this year, while