We're Arguing About Weird Cars And The Future Of Driving And You Should Come

The cars, the roads, the entire transportation systems of tomorrow will be influenced by decisions and events of today. How exactly? That’s what we’re going to argue about, this Friday and Saturday, in two panels at the New York Auto Show. You should come through. Yep, we’re putting on two...

Sep 10, 2025

'Uber Is In Reality A Socialist Project Of Sharing Aimed At Providing Ordinary People With More Economic Opportunities'

If you have even a rudimentary grasp of Uber’s history, you probably know the ride-hailing service as a start-up with a history of rebuffing regulations as much as it possibly can. This is literally an ideal of its CEO, Travis Kalanick, who once “When the people with the red tape...

Sep 10, 2025

Tesla To Voluntarily Recall 53,000 Model S And Model X Vehicles Over Electric Parking Brakes That Could Get Stuck

Tesla announced this morning that it’s issuing a voluntary recall for Model S and Model X SUVs built between February and October 2016 over a potential manufacturing issue. Specifically, it’s related to a gear in electric parking brakes that could’ve been manufactured improperly, and, if that gear breaks, it might...

Sep 10, 2025

Self-Driving Chevy Bolt Spares Adorable Raccoon's Life

General Motors has been pretty up front with releasing raw (sped-up) footage of its autonomous Chevy Bolt EVs driving around town. The latest clip released this week shows a close-call with the car and a risky raccoon looking to get across the road. As Automotive News, it’s the first video...

Sep 10, 2025

Tesla Is Doubling Its Charging Network

Good news for electric road trippers and people still suffering from range anxiety: Tesla announced today that it plans to double the size of its network, with some sites being constructed along busy routes to accommodate several dozen Teslas charging simultaneously. The company announced the expansion plan on Monday in...

Sep 10, 2025

The Biggest Fleet Of Autonomous Cars Ever Will Soon Be Open To The Public

Google’s self-driving car project, the wonderfully named Waymo, took time out from a against Uber to announce on Tuesday that it’s launching a public testing program for hundreds of families in Arizona. Along with that, it’s expanding its fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacific Hybrid minivans from 100 to 600, which...

Sep 10, 2025

Faraday Future Is Even Getting Sued By A Bicycle Company

A couple months back, we had a funny story about a lawsuit filed against Faraday Future for allegedly failing to pay a broker it hired to coordinate a $1.5 million sale of the website . Faraday, an electric vehicle start-up with known financial struggles, couldn’t even pick a name without...

Sep 10, 2025

Car Designers Need To Quit Hiding Radar Emitters In Grilles Because It's Not Fooling Anyone

Have you looked at the grille of a new Mercedes-Benz S Class? At first glance, it looks essentially like the modern version of the iconic Benz grille, Until the light hits it just right, and you see a weird, shiny rectangular block right in the middle, attempting to camouflage itself...

Sep 10, 2025

Tesla Could Announce Four Massive New Battery Factories This Year To Power The Revolution

Tesla’s Model 3 might be the make-or-break vehicle for the automaker, but founder Elon Musk is continuing to push a future vision of the company anyway. That means an emphasis on investing heavily in electric vehicle infrastructure. And while it’s probably overly-optimistic for now, Musk said last week that Tesla...

Sep 10, 2025

Elio Motors Says It Needs $376 Million To Fund Production

Elio Motors filed its latest reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the three-wheeled auto start-up’s future looks even bleaker than before: , filed today, Elio says it wants production to begin in 2018, but it needs $376 million to make that happen, up from the previous estimated funding...

Sep 10, 2025

Ride-Hailing Faces A Crowded And Uncertain Future

In the era of All Things Mobility, where both carmakers and tech startups are clamoring for a piece of the ride-hailing pie, it seems like everyone is convinced that fetching a car on demand is the future of the car itself. But in a scenario with rising gas prices, and...

Sep 10, 2025

Tesla Might Have A Solution For Electric Vehicles' Enormous Dirty Secret

Tesla’s recent announcements of a few additional Gigafactories and a significant expansion of its Supercharger network show the company hopes to invest heavily in infrastructure to supports its ambitions. And a new filing suggests Tesla’s linked to a project to create an advanced materials recycling initiative. The Securities and Exchange...

Sep 10, 2025

Google Finally Comes Out And Alleges The Self-Driving Tech Theft Case Was Orchestrated by Uber

A long-awaited hearing in the court battle between Uber and Waymo over allegedly stolen self-driving tech began today with a bang: Attorneys for Waymo, the name for Google’s self-driving car project, alleged that its former employee, Anthony Levandowski, to help Uber steal its intellectual property. Levandowksi, the engineer at the...

Sep 10, 2025

Tesla's Opening Its Own Body Repair Shops

Back in March, we highlighted an issue that could plague Tesla as it approached the production of its Model 3 sedan: . The company said today that it’s planning to address the issue, in part, by opening the first Tesla-owned repair shops. “To significantly improve the customer experience with out-of-warranty...

Sep 10, 2025

New U.S. Transportation Secretary Doesn't Seem To Know Anything About Autonomous Cars

Here’s Elaine Chao, the new U.S. Transportation Secretary who is concerned , talking about self-driving cars : “We have now self-driving cars. We have level-two self-driving cars. They can drive on the highway, follow the white lines on the highway, and there’s really no need for any person to be...

Sep 10, 2025