IT総合 Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps
The company's autonomous vehicles have had a number of misadventures lately, involving driving into construction sites.
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IT総合 IT総合 Fisker Ocean faces fourth federal safety probe
The U.S.' NHTSA has opened a fourth investigation into the Fisker Ocean SUV, spurred by multiple claims of "inadvertent ...
IT総合 Tesla is Luminar’s largest lidar customer
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that lidar sensors are a “crutch” for autonomous vehicles. But his company has ...
IT総合 Rivian loses $1.45 billion as cost-cutting measures continue
Rivian lost $1.45 billion in the first quarter, showing that its recent company-wide cost-cutting measures have a ways t...
IT総合 Bloom is reinventing how e-bikes are made in the US
The pandemic ushered in an e-bike boom. But like so many other pandemic trends, that boom didn’t last. The last ye...
IT総合 Lucid loses longtime Apple and Intel exec who steered software division
Lucid Motors’ senior vice president of digital Mike Bell has resigned from his position. The company said in a fil...
IT総合 Luminar cuts 20% of staff and outsources lidar production
Lidar company Luminar is slashing its workforce by 20% and will lean harder on its contract manufacturing partner as par...
IT総合 Fisker stiffed the engineering firm developing its low-cost EV and pickup truck, lawsuit claims
Henrik Fisker stood on a stage last August and proudly debuted two prototypes designed to catapult his eponymous EV star...
IT総合 Rivian wins $827 million from Illinois to expand its factory for R2 lineup
Rivian is getting $827 million in incentives from the state of Illinois to support building its next-generation electric...
IT総合 Elon Musk guts Tesla’s charging team after winning over major automakers
Tesla has gutted its charging team in a new round of layoffs, despite recently winning over major automakers like Ford a...
IT総合 Fisker starts new round of layoffs to ‘preserve cash’
EV startup Fisker Inc. is laying off more employees to “preserve cash,” one week after warning investors it ...
IT総合 Ford’s BlueCruise hands-free system under investigation after fatal crashes
Federal safety regulators have opened an investigation into Ford’s hands-free driver assistance system, BlueCruise...
IT総合 Tesla Autopilot investigation closed after feds find 13 fatal crashes related to misuse
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closed a long-standing investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot dri...
IT総合 Tesla’s new growth plan is centered around mysterious cheaper models
Tesla’s been undergoing some major changes, and now we have a sense of why: The company says it is upending its pr...
IT総合 Tesla launches new Model 3 Performance variant to rev up demand
Tesla has officially revealed a new Performance variant of the recently-refreshed Model 3 sedan as the company looks to ...
IT総合 Fisker plans more layoffs as cash dwindles and bankruptcy looms
Fisker says it’s planning more layoffs less than two months after cutting 15% of its workforce, as the EV startup ...
IT総合 Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck
Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can g...
IT総合 Tesla Semi charging corridor project is still alive despite Biden admin funding snub
Tesla is pushing forward with a plan to build an electric big rig charging corridor stretching from Texas to California,...
IT総合 Tesla has spent $200,000 advertising on Elon Musk’s X so far
Tesla has spent around $200,000 advertising through February on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, after the CE...
IT総合 Tesla is laying off more than 10% of its global workforce
Tesla is laying off thousands of employees as it tries to simultaneously cut costs and boost productivity, according to ...
IT総合 Ford’s hands-free BlueCruise system was active before fatal Texas crash
The driver of a Mustang Mach-E who crashed into a stationary car in Texas in February was using Ford’s hands-free ...
IT総合 Faraday Future faked early sales, lawsuits claim
Two internal whistleblowers at Faraday Future claim the troubled EV company has been lying about some of the few sales i...
IT総合 Lucid Motors ekes out a new delivery record as it searches for more EV buyers
Lucid Motors delivered more EVs in the first quarter of 2024 than it has in any other quarter, though it set the record ...
IT総合 Tesla reportedly drops plan to build $25,000 EV
Tesla is reportedly abandoning its plan to build a lower-cost EV thought to cost around $25,000, according to Reuters, d...
IT総合 Tesla slashes Model Y inventory prices by as much as $7,000
Tesla is dropping prices of unsold Model Y SUVs in the U.S. by thousands of dollars in an attempt to clear out an unprec...
IT総合 Faraday Future avoids eviction at its LA headquarters, for now
Faraday Future has avoided getting evicted from its Los Angeles headquarters — for the time being. The troubled EV start...
IT総合 Fisker’s Ocean SUV investigated for doors that won’t open
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a third investigation into EV startup Fisker’s Ocean...
IT総合 Rivian started a tough year on a flat foot
Rivian has a challenging year ahead — and the first quarter is off to a tepid start. The EV startup announced Tuesday th...
IT総合 Tesla blames sales drop on Houthi attacks and arson in Germany
Tesla just turned in one of its more disappointing first quarters for deliveries in a while, and the company is putting ...
IT総合 Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months
Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries, leading to an inte...