Transportation

Nikola Corp said Friday it suspected “foul play” in a fire outside of its Phoenix headquarters that affected some of its battery electric trucks. The fire, which Nikola tweeted about and has since confirmed with technewss, started early this morning behind its headquarters. A vehicle w

On-demand startups in Asia raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors over the last several years to scale and compete heavily in ridesharing, alternative transport, delivery and a supersized range of related and unrelated services. Now comes the reckoning.  This week, Southeast Asian s

Autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics has signed a deal with Loadsmith, a marketplace that connects shippers and carriers, to put 800 Kodiak-equipped trucks on its platform.  Loadsmith says its newly formed entity, Loadsmith Transportation, is the first freight transportation company built s

Marvel retiree Robert Downey Jr. has a new show: “Downey’s Dream Cars.” It follows the millionaire as he seeks to reconcile two of his hobbies, classic car collecting and climate change mitigation. The Iron Man actor has led with this sort of juxtaposition before; when he kicked

Rivian acquired the company behind ABetterRouteplanner, a popular route-planning app used by EV drivers, the company confirmed Wednesday. Rivian didn’t disclose financial terms of the deal to buy Iternio, the Swedish company that developed ABetterRouteplanner, otherwise known as ABRP.  The a

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk says the firm is looking to invest in India and bring the electric carmaker to the country “as soon as humanly possible.” Musk said he had a “very good” conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday and is hopeful that they

Texas will require electric vehicle charging companies to include Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) and the Combined Charging System (CCS) standard in order to qualify for a state program to electrify highways through federal funds, Reuters reports. The program begins early to m

Android phone users finally have access to Cruise’s robotaxi service, which is predominately in San Francisco, as well as in Austin and Phoenix. The self-driving unit under GM said Tuesday that it has developed an Android app to support its robotaxi service. The company tweeted that it has st

Inflation hasn't been kind to batteries. After more than a decade of remarkably consistent declines in the price of lithium-ion battery packs, last year the trend reversed itself. The uptick was small but notable. New technologies tend to follow a similar path down the cost curve, and batteries

China’s electric vehicle companies are pouring into the Middle East where both investors and consumers have a growing appetite for the country’s Tesla challengers. Shanghai-based Nio announced Tuesday that CYVN Holdings, a smart mobility-focused investment vehicle majority-owned by the

Rivian is the latest automaker to jump on Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS). This comes just weeks after Ford and General Motors announced that their upcoming electric vehicles would have the proper equipment to recharge using Tesla Superchargers. Current Rivian vehicles will ge

Autonomous trucking company TuSimple last week successfully completed a series of fully autonomous semi-truck runs on public roads in China without a human present in the vehicle and without human intervention. The company claims to have completed China’s first so-called “driver-outR

Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar has formed a joint venture with Xingji Meizu, a mobile phone and consumer electronics company, to build an operating system for Polestar cars sold in China. In the rest of the world, Polestar has integrated Google’s Android Automotive OS into vehicles t

Parallel Domain is putting the ability to generate synthetic datasets into the hands of its customers. The San Francisco-based startup has launched a new API called Data Lab that stands on the shoulders of generative AI giants, giving machine-learning engineers control over dynamic virtual worlds t