Tesla Delivers Model 3 To Man With Stage Four Cancer To Fulfill His Bucket List

Tesla has been working to finish 2017 by delivering the first Model 3s to non-employees, but it went above and beyond this week to get the all-electric sedan to one particular reservation holder: a man fighting terminal stage four cancer who said the “last thing on my bucket list” is...

Sep 11, 2025

The SEC Formally Investigated Tesla Over The Model 3 Last Year Without Taking Enforcement Action

Throughout 2016, as Tesla prepped the launch of the all-electric Model 3 sedan, the automaker simultaneously dealt with a formal probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission over the all-electric sedan. That’s what research firm Probes Reporter found out in . No enforcement action was taken, the records show, but...

Sep 11, 2025

Volvo Responsibly Delays Autonomous Car Program Four Years Because It Cares

Volvo has delayed its by four years and will no longer be testing fully-autonomous cars at launch, after initial plans to get the robots rolling by the end of this year. This isn’t very surprising. The Drive Me program was announced in 2015, and Volvo claimed it would be pushing...

Sep 11, 2025

Mazda Study Finds 71 Percent Of People Still Want To Drive Their Cars

Mazda is one of a few automakers without any grandiose plans for autonomous cars quite yet, but the company recently commissioned a study to better understand how drivers feel about them. It found in letting an autonomous car drive them around. Score another point for the driving-focused automaker. The study...

Sep 11, 2025

Get Off Twitter And Fix The Model 3

A couple weeks back, Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent reporters on a wild goose chase over (possible) plans to send a Roadster into space aboard one of his toy rockets. it was legit. Then he said it was “totally made up.” And then a source told the news outlet it...

Sep 11, 2025

Autonomous Cars Are Not Really About Safety

Ever since General Motors rolled out the earlier this month, I haven’t been able to shake a line that CEO Mary Barra, among others, offered up: The carmaker’s vision of an autonomous future, she said, is for traffic crashes to be a thing of the past. It’s noble, sure. Does...

Sep 11, 2025

The Electric Vehicle Credit Officially Survives The New Republican Tax Bill

In good news for companies developing electric vehicles, and for interested consumers, the federal electric vehicle tax credit will not be repealed in the Republican tax bill going to a vote next week. Everyone else, including non-billionaires, is still by the, though. Earlier this week, worries that the U.S. Senate...

Sep 11, 2025

Faraday Future Claims It Pulled $1 Billion Out Of Its Ass

founder has reportedly managed to suddenly raise $1 billion in funding for the company and will take over as CEO, following reports that Yueting had been blacklisted by the Chinese government and his company was edging towards bankruptcy. This all seems totally legitimate so far. According to, Jia Yeuting held...

Sep 11, 2025

We're About To Be Swamped With New Electric Cars And Everyone's Blah About It

The growing hype this year around electric cars is about to be met with a daunting reality: despite the fact that dozens of new electrified models are set to roll out in the coming years, few have interest in buying them right now. That’s the upshot of a today. Though...

Sep 11, 2025

Nearly 10 Percent Of Uber's Drivers In The U.K. Are Working More Than 60 Hours Per Week

It’s well-known that some Uber drivers , but a new letter from the company offers some additional insight into how many seem to be plowing through most of their week behind the wheel. Uber has about 50,000 drivers in Britain, and nearly a third are logged into the app more...

Sep 11, 2025

Ex-Faraday Future Employees Will Keep The Dream Alive At New Electric Car Startups

Two new startups are joining the electric car world—and both include executives and employees who recently departed Faraday Future, according to a new report and a source who spoke to Jalopnik. The news comes just a month after a round of top executives departed the company, including former chief financial...

Sep 11, 2025

Jaguar's All-Electric I-Pace Could Start At $76,000

Ahead of Jaguar Land Rover’s launch of its first all-electric vehicle, the I-Pace, there’s now reports of the car’s price-point for. when it goes into production. If reports from early reservation pan out, the crossover could come close to the base price of a Tesla Model X. Early reservation holders...

Sep 11, 2025

Apple Patents A System For Self-Driving Cars That Could Make Navigating Easier And More Efficient

After scaling back its ambitious car plans in 2016, Apple spent this year quietly immersing itself in the field of self-driving cars, and a new patent shows the company’s thinking of more efficient ways for autonomous vehicles to get around. The patent application was published on Thursday and it has...

Sep 11, 2025

Faraday Future's Boss Ordered To Return To China To Address His Mountain Of Debt: Report

If recent reports are accurate, electric car startup Faraday Future recently netted a $1 billion investment and, in turn, named Chinese tech entrepreneur Jia Yueting its CEO. But by the end of 2017, Jia needs to return to China to sort out a mountain of debt his other companies have...

Sep 11, 2025

Elon Musk, Who Hasn't Fixed The Model 3 Yet, Promises Electric Truck Right After Next Other Car

Beyond issuing , little has been disclosed about whether Tesla has successfully addressed the bottleneck in the all-electric sedan’s production line. Still, CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Tuesday to heave another item onto his mountain of promises: Tesla’s all-electric pickup will be made after the Model Y crossover,...

Sep 11, 2025