Your GM car just got a lot smarter with Google Gemini upgrade

Google Gemini is rolling out to 4 million GM vehicles, turning your daily drive into a smarter, more connected, and surprisingly fun experience.

The AI-designed car is taking shape
The AI-designed car is taking shape

The auto design world is full of advanced 3D visualization tools and VR sculpting platforms, but your average new car still enters the world as a sketch. Those sketches traditionally see endless iteration and refinement from all angles before being turned into 3D models by hand, some dying in the digital world, others sculpted into […]

GM suspends next-gen electric truck indefinitely as it retreats to gas
GM suspends next-gen electric truck indefinitely as it retreats to gas

General Motors has indefinitely suspended plans to refresh its full-size electric truck and SUV lineup, putting the future of the Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC Sierra EV, Hummer EV, and Cadillac Escalade IQ in limbo beyond the current generation.

The …

GM idles Factory Zero again, lays off 1,300 EV workers for a month
GM idles Factory Zero again, lays off 1,300 EV workers for a month

General Motors has shut down production at Factory Zero in Detroit for the second time in less than three months, temporarily laying off 1,300 workers. The plant won’t restart until mid-April.

The idling, which began on March 16, marks the latest in…

Training Driving AI at 50,000× Real Time
Training Driving AI at 50,000× Real Time

This is a sponsored article brought to you by General Motors. Visit their new Engineering Blog for more insights.Autonomous driving is one of the most demanding problems in physical AI. An automated system must interpret a chaotic, ever-changing world…

All the wrong EVs are getting canceled
All the wrong EVs are getting canceled

These past few weeks have been particularly brutal for the EV industry – and anyone who believes that electric vehicles are the future. Thanks to slowing demand and policy whiplashes, automakers are on an EV murder spree, killing a host of promising new models. The EV graveyard grows bigger by the minute. And unfortunately, as […]

GM figured out how to navigate EV uncertainty with the Chevy Bolt

The 2027 Chevy Bolt might not be a groundbreaking new EV, but incremental improvements have made it better without inflating the price.

The 2027 Chevy Bolt is the McRib of the automotive world

TechCrunch drove the 2027 Chevy Bolt and found that incremental improvements build on a solid basic recipe to deliver an affordable EV.

The Corvette ZR1X hybrid can outpace million-dollar sports cars for a fraction of the cost
The Corvette ZR1X hybrid can outpace million-dollar sports cars for a fraction of the cost

When Elon Musk burst onto the scene in his little Tesla Roadster, it seemed a matter of time before electricity rendered gas-powered sports cars obsolete. It hasn’t worked out that way. Automakers have struggled to bring purely electric two-seaters to market. The ones that managed to emerge have been flatly rejected by consumers. Porsche has […]

America is at risk of becoming an automotive backwater
America is at risk of becoming an automotive backwater

For decades, America’s auto industry was the envy of the world, driven by mass production, the rise of Detroit’s Big Three automakers, and the iconic stylings of the 1950s and ’60s. Then, through a series of blunders and missteps, things started to unravel. There was the fuel crisis of the 1970s, which led to an […]