Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.
Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.

When Rivian went public in November 2021, Amazon owned 20 per cent of the company. It had backed the electric vehicle startup with a 700 million dollar cheque in 2019, ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans, and watched its investment surge to more tha…

Tesla’s FSD rollout in Europe runs into the regulator scepticism Musk has been projecting through
Tesla’s FSD rollout in Europe runs into the regulator scepticism Musk has been projecting through

Elon Musk’s public confidence about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving rollout in Europe is, on the available evidence, not shared by the European regulators who would actually have to approve it. Reuters published an exclusive analysis of regulator emails and …

Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it
Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it

Tesla is now selling Chinese-made Model 3 sedans in Canada at the lowest price the car has ever been offered in the country. The Model 3 Premium RWD, manufactured at Giga Shanghai, starts at C$39,490, roughly US$29,000. Two months ago, the cheapest Mod…

The EVs America is losing in 2026 are not failing. They are being tariffed out of existence.
The EVs America is losing in 2026 are not failing. They are being tariffed out of existence.

  At least a dozen electric vehicle models have been discontinued, paused, or cancelled in the United States this year. The list includes some of the most recognisable names in the industry: Tesla’s Model S and Model X, Honda’s entire 0 Series, the Vol…

Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew the route it plans to sell.
Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew the route it plans to sell.

The flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan took seven minutes. By car, depending on the time of day, the same journey takes between 60 and 120 minutes. On Friday, Joby Aviation landed its…

Porsche built one of the best electric SUVs ever made, and does not expect the world to buy enough of them
Porsche built one of the best electric SUVs ever made, and does not expect the world to buy enough of them

Summary: Porsche unveiled the Cayenne Coupe Electric at Auto China in Beijing, a 1,139 hp electric SUV that does 0-60 in 2.4 seconds with up to 669 km WLTP range and 16-minute fast charging, starting at $113,800. It launches during the worst financial …

High gas prices are not saving Tesla. They are just slowing the bleeding.
High gas prices are not saving Tesla. They are just slowing the bleeding.

Summary: US petrol prices passed $4/gallon for the first time in four years (+30% YoY), driven by the Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz disruption. Tesla delivered 358,023 vehicles in Q1 2026, up 6% against a weak comparison quarter but missing estima…

BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving
BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving

Summary:BMW revealed the facelifted 2027 i7 simultaneously at Grand Central Terminal and Auto China with Gen6 cylindrical cells from Rimac, rare-earth-free motors with SiC inverters, and 250 kW charging. The i7 60 xDrive targets 350-plus miles EPA and …

Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cableless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock
Humble emerges from stealth with $24M and a cableless autonomous electric truck built to go dock-to-dock

The San Francisco startup, founded by an ex-Uber ATG and Waabi engineer, is taking a different approach to autonomous freight than Aurora or Kodiak: no driver’s cab, no hub handoffs, and an autonomy stack built on vision-language-action models rather t…

TikTok is making Americans want Chinese EVs they cannot buy, and tariffs were not designed for this
TikTok is making Americans want Chinese EVs they cannot buy, and tariffs were not designed for this

The United States imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to keep them out of the American market. TikTok and YouTube are making that strategy irrelevant. A survey of 9,000 potential EV buyers by AlixPartners found that 58% had seen Chinese E…