Transportation

India conglomerate Jio has partnered with Taiwanese fabless semiconductor giant MediaTek to supply the booming electric scooter market with digital dashboards. The partnership, which was announced Thursday at an industry event in New Delhi, will bring chips supplied by MediaTek and an Android-base

Elon Musk says he will show off Tesla’s purpose-built “robotaxi” prototype during an event October 10, after scrapping a previous plan to reveal it August 8. Musk said Tesla will also show off “a couple of other things,” but didn’t explain what that meant. The c

Alphabet will spend an additional $5 billion on its self-driving subsidiary, Waymo, over the next few years, according to Ruth Porat, the company’s chief financial officer. Porat announced the commitment to a new “multi-year investment” Tuesday during Alphabet’s second-quar

Waymo has started testing on public roads in San Francisco a new robotaxi built by Chinese electric automaker Zeekr.  Waymo has “less than a handful” of the Zeekr vehicles in San Francisco today and isn't driving them autonomously yet. Still, the fact that Waymo has hit the roads with a

The CrowdStrike outage that hit early Friday morning and knocked out computers running Microsoft Windows has grounded flights globally. Major U.S. airlines including United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines have halted flight operations around the world. According to FlightAware, whi

There's a man in Florida right now who wants to propose to his girlfriend while they're on a beach vacation. He couldn't get the engagement ring before he flew down from New England, but it didn't seem like that big of an issue — his girlfriend's daughter Nicole was planning t

A faulty software update issued by security giant CrowdStrike has resulted in a massive overnight outage that's affected Windows computers around the world, disrupting businesses, airports, train stations, banks, broadcasters and the healthcare sector. CrowdStrike said the outage was not cause

Elon Musk has made it clear he doesn't like Joe Biden. But since Musk officially endorsed and is reportedly financially backing Donald Trump in this year’s presidential campaign, Biden is returning the favor. The president is now directly campaigning on Musk — and other high-profile

Waymo is ramping up efforts to gain access to a lucrative robotaxi use case: pickups and drop-offs at the San Francisco International Airport, according to emails viewed by technewss and obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.  Waymo already has the required permits to commerciall

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! Another week, another batch of transportation news. And as always, senior reporter Sean O'Kane is deep in the Fisker beat.&n

Ford said Tuesday it will expand production of its Super Duty trucks to a factory in Canada that was slated for a $1.34 billion transformation into an assembly plant for its next-generation of electric vehicles. The U.S. automaker said it will start producing F-Series Super Duty pickups at its Oak

Fisker has been given the green light by a bankruptcy judge to sell more than 3,000 of its Ocean SUVs to a vehicle leasing company, a deal that will net the defunct EV startup a maximum of $46.25 million. The approval of the sale clears the way for the rest of Fisker’s bankruptcy process to p

One major dissenter threatens to upend Fisker’s apparent best chance at offloading its unsold EVs, a deal that would keep the startup’s bankruptcy proceeding alive and pave the way for paying back creditors some of what they’re owed. The objection to the sale comes from the offic

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed Monday earlier reports the company was delaying its robotaxi reveal, explaining it was because he requested an “important design change to the front.” Bloomberg News reported last week Tesla was pushing the event to October. It had been aiming for an Augu