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VW’s new offshoot EV company Scout Motors, which revealed its first two vehicles last week, will use the software and zonal architecture being developed by the joint venture between Rivian and the Volkswagen Group. Rivian Chief Software Officer Wassym Bensaid confirmed to technewss at Disru

“I never thought the propulsion of a vehicle would become a political issue,” GM chairman and CEO Mary Barra said onstage at technewss Disrupt on Tuesday. While the executive didn't expand on this statement, former president Donald Trump has railed against EVs and claimed, wrongly, that t

General Motors CEO Mary Barra still believes an autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel and pedals is “definitely” in her company’s future, despite recently suspending work on the purpose-built Origin. Barra told the crowd at technewss Disrupt 2024 on Tuesday that she still ha

Infinite Machine turned many heads when it revealed its metallic, cyberpunk-style electric scooter in 2023. Now one of Silicon Valley's biggest venture capital firms is backing the startup's vision of filling the world's cities with Infinite Machine’s futuristic vehicles in a big

Jon McNeill — a former Tesla and Lyft executive and current CEO at DVx Ventures — spread the word last week at the World Business Forum on what he calls the “Tesla innovation method” of radical simplification.  After his presentation, we sat down to chat about Tesla's automation g

Lyft has agreed to a $2.1 million settlement proposed by the FTC over the car-hailing company’s “deceptive earnings claims about how much money drivers could expect to make.” As documented in the FTC’s complaint document, Lyft systematically inflated the incomes it advertis

Rental car startup Kyte, which bills itself as the “best alternative to Hertz,” is pulling out of almost all of its major markets in the United States and has cut its workforce roughly in half in a bid to survive after exploring a sale earlier this year. The company is shrinking its op

Electric aircraft startup Lilium is shutting down after failing to raise emergency money from the German government, according to a regulatory filing. The filing comes after a series of setbacks from the German company that was once a darling in the nascent industry of electric aircraft. Lilium,

The idea of a $25,000 Tesla has persisted for years — in part, perhaps, because CEO Elon Musk said he was “very confident” the company could do it at an event in 2020. But on Wednesday night, during Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call, Musk said the idea of a $25,000 car with

Electric motorcycle company Zero is in the process of closing a new funding round for a little bit more than $120 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing shows that Zero has sold around $100 million of the equity round so far from two undisclosed

Welcome back to technewss Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click technewss Mobility! Hey all, I'm back after a trip that mostly involved getting around on my own two feet. But one little, perhaps somewhat obvi

When U.K. custom electric car creator RBW showed off its Roadster and GT models at Monterey Car Week this year, the vehicles stunned a lot of attendees, CEO Peter Swain recently told technewss. “We had four ‘wows,’ where people would go: ‘Wow, that’s beautiful. Wow,

Elon Musk said he hopes to launch a service that will let people hail self-driving Tesla vehicles in California and Texas sometime in 2025 — and claims his company has already been testing the service in the Bay Area with employees. The comments, made Wednesday on Tesla’s third-quarter

Tesla’s Cybertruck was the third best-selling electric vehicle in the United States in the third quarter, beating out every other EV not made by Tesla. The only two vehicles that sold better were the Model 3 sedan and Model Y SUV. The polarizing truck notched this achievement despite selling