Show Us Your Most Invaluable Car Accessory

Everyone has a collection of accessories that forever reside in their car to make driving just a little easier. My daily driver is a 1996 Toyota Camry V6 LE. It has a cassette player and an AM/FM radio for entertainment. The antenna is currently missing from my car so my...

Sep 11, 2025

Ford-Backed Startup Calls Out Practically Everyone For Overhyping Self-Driving Cars

If there’s one noticeable sentiment emerging from Ford under the reign of newly-hired CEO Jim Hackett, it’s the company’s toward self-driving cars. The official line, lately, is: yes, this technology is Good and Will Happen, but it Will Take Time. More time than the thought leaders in Silicon Valley would...

Sep 11, 2025

A Whopping $80 Billion Has Been Invested So Far In The Self-Driving Car Race

for a self-driving tech company? It’s not unheard of anymore. But sheds light on just how much loot has been spent on the race to bring fully-autonomous cars to the public. The total, so far: $80 billion. There’s no public tracker of how much has been spent on autonomous vehicles,...

Sep 11, 2025

Consumer Reports Fires Back At Tesla

Consumer Reports released its annual reliability survey on Thursday, but the findings are being overshadowed by a growing rift between the publication and Tesla, which given to the automaker’s Model 3. Tesla called CR’s coverage “consistently inaccurate,” but CR responded on Friday, saying Tesla’s statements contained “supercharged and unsupported claims...

Sep 11, 2025

It’d Be A Business Miracle If Tesla And Uber Succeed At All

Raise cash, burn it, rinse, repeat—that has essentially been the business model of enterprising startups like Tesla and Uber for some time. And shows just how uncommon it is for companies like that to achieve prolonged success. Musk is no stranger to questioning Wall Street’s logic about his all-electric automaker....

Sep 11, 2025

The Way We Define Automated Driving Is Hell And It's All Of Our Faults

Reporters who cover the burgeoning self-driving car industry threw a fit this week over a New York Times column that failed to accurately capture the automated capabilities of a new . “Driverless Cars Made Me Nervous,” , ignoring the fact that no car on the road today can operate without...

Sep 11, 2025

Ex-Employee Says Tesla Broke Law With Mass Layoffs: Lawsuit

A recently terminated Tesla employee filed a lawsuit against the company Tuesday, claiming the automaker violated a California state law by failing to give proper notice when it allegedly laid off hundreds of workers this month. The situation dates to earlier this month, at departments across the company. Tesla said...

Sep 11, 2025

Tesla's Recent Mass-Firings Were Done To Hurt Unionizing Efforts: UAW

The United Auto Workers union on Wednesday filed an unfair labor practice claim against Tesla, claiming the company harassed, intimidated, and fired workers who openly advocated for unionizing its California factory. The claim was filed with the National Labor Relations Board, an independent government agency that seeks to enforce U.S....

Sep 11, 2025

Tesla Blames Gigafactory For Model 3 Production Holdup As It Posts $619 Million Loss

All eyes are on whether Tesla can mass produce the new sedan as promised, but reports as of late indicate production holdups and delays far greater than anticipated. In a to shareholders Wednesday, the automaker said the “primary constraint” on the Model 3 production line has been issues at the...

Sep 11, 2025

Huge Tax Credit For Electric Vehicles Would Be Eliminated Under Proposed Republican Tax Plan (UPDATED)

Automakers already have a hard time selling electric vehicles in the United States, and it may become even more of a challenge under the sweeping tax cut legislation unveiled by House Republicans on Thursday. The House tax bill calls for an immediate repeal of a $7,500 tax credit per electric...

Sep 11, 2025

Tesla's 'Hell' Threatens Its Future

In August, after got production underway for the Model 3 and made first deliveries of the new mass-market electric sedan to employees, CEO Elon Musk there should “absolutely” be “zero concern” about the automaker’s ability to increase production to 10,000 cars per week at some point in 2018. This week,...

Sep 11, 2025

Ryder Plans To Start Renting Out Electric Vans In New York And California By The End Of The Year

If you need to haul some cargo and want a quieter ride on the trip, here’s some news for you: Rental company Ryder said on Friday that it ordered 125 all-electric vans that’ll be available to rent or lease in California and New York City by the end of the...

Sep 11, 2025

Automakers Fight To Keep The EV Tax Credit From Getting Axed

Good morning! Welcome to , your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know. A lobbyist fight, that is. As the Trump Administration , automakers are scrambling to change their mind, and that means some...

Sep 11, 2025

Tesla's Director Of Battery Engineering Is Out

Tesla is currently working to address manufacturing issues at its Gigafactory in Nevada, which led to a three month delay in the production schedule of the sedan. At the same time, Jalopnik has learned the company’s director of battery engineering left the company in recent weeks. Jon Wagner, who joined...

Sep 11, 2025

Tesla And Dyson Duked It Out In Court Over Electric Car Plans And No One Knew Until Now

Dyson, the well-known maker of vacuum cleaners, turned heads in September, when the company’s head honcho announced its intention to build an electric car. But the plans were already well-known to a future competitor: Tesla. That’s because, , an engineer working on Dyson’s car project told Tesla about the entire...

Sep 11, 2025