With the Polestar 3 now ‘weeks’ away, its CEO looks to make company ‘self-sustaining’

Thomas Ingenlath is having perhaps a little too much fun in his Polestar 3, silently rocketing away from stop signs and swinging through tightening bends, grinning like a man far younger than his 59 years of age. “You really can push this car,” the Polestar CEO says as he cruises the r

Why Porsche NA CEO Timo Resch is betting on 'choice' to survive the turbulent EV market

Timo Resch is basking in the sun. That’s literally true, as we speak on a gloriously clear California day at the Quail, one of Monterey Car Week’s most prestigious events. But it’s figuratively true as well, as Resch, who took the CEO role at Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) last

Gogoro delays India plans due to policy uncertainty, launches bike-taxi pilot with Rapido

Taiwanese electric two-wheeler maker Gogoro has deferred its highly ambitious plans for India, as New Delhi has not yet launched an anticipated scheme for battery swapping, a company executive said. In the meantime, the company has started a bike-taxi pilot with aggregator Rapido to test its vehicl

The Nevera R all-new electric hypercar can hit a top speed of 217 mph, and it only starts at $2.5 million

Rimac, the Croatian EV upstart that ascended from a garage to become a supercar and technology powerhouse merged with Bugatti, has upgraded its Nevera hypercar. And along the way, Rimac managed to squeeze more power into it.  Rimac revealed Friday during The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering at

WeRide preps for an IPO, meet the man who built a startup pipeline at CNH and Waymo's nightly honk-a-thon

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! We brought you a Tesla Dojo explainer last week. Now we're giving you a handy Dojo timeline that tracks the progress of Tesl

Tesla posts job listing for the 1950s-style diner Elon Musk has proposed building

In line with Elon Musk's increasing rhetoric on X of going back to the good old days, Tesla looks like it's finally getting ready to open its 1950s-style diner.  Tesla is seeking a Tesla Diner Experience Specialist in Los Angeles to work with the charging operations team to ensure “

China's autonomous vehicle startup WeRide seeks US IPO at $5B valuation

WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle company, is officially gearing up for a U.S. public debut, over a year after China started easing its effective ban of foreign IPOs. The company is seeking a valuation as high as $5.02 billion in its initial public offering. WeRide expects to raise about $96 m

India’s Kazam powers up to roll out EV charging in Southeast Asia

EV charging station startup Kazam plans to expand beyond India, where it already holds a significant share of the market, and into Southeast Asia to gain an early mover’s advantage, technewss has exclusively learned. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which has offices in Delhi and Pune a

Why Scott Painter is selling a beach house to start a new vehicle software company

Serial entrepreneur Scott Painter's plan to build an all-electric vehicle subscription company called Autonomy has not worked out. So he's pivoting once again to what he calls the “hardest build” of his career. While Autonomy will continue operating the small 1,000-car fleet it assembl

Ola Electric surges 20% in India’s biggest listing in two years

Ola Electric, India’s largest electric two-wheeler maker, surged by 20% on its public debut on Friday, making it the biggest listing among Indian firms in two years. Shares of the Bengaluru-based firm, which counts SoftBank and Temasek among its backers, jumped to ?91.20 (about $1.1) after

Lyft 'opens a can of whoop ass' on surge pricing, Tesla's Dojo explained and Saudi Arabia pumps $1.5B into Lucid

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! Anyone paying even a little bit of attention to Tesla has probably heard about Dojo. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has referenced Dojo rep

Lyft to 'open up a can of whoop ass' on surge pricing

Ride-hail giant Lyft will pilot a new feature called Price Lock that will let a rider purchase a monthly subscription “that caps the price for a specific route at a specific time,” according to CEO David Risher. The feature is designed to address the inconsistencies of surge pricing, particula

Rivian lost $1.46B in Q2 as it drives toward a VW-linked future

Rivian’s financial losses have crept up as it pushed out the last of its first-generation R1 trucks and SUVs in favor of newer, more cost-efficient versions — a sign of just how much the company could use the $5 billion it could get as part of a recently announced deal with Volkswagen G

Waymo expands robotaxi coverage in Los Angeles and San Francisco

Waymo, the Alphabet-owned self-driving car company, is adding another 10 square miles to its robotaxi service area to include cities surrounding San Francisco.  The move, which adds Daly City, Broadmoor and Colma, pushes its total commercial service territory to about 55 square miles. Waymo