IT総合 Fisker pauses production with just $121 million in the bank
EV startup Fisker is pausing production of its electric Ocean SUV for six weeks as it scrambles for a cash infusion. The...
Sean O Kane
IT総合 IT総合 Lordstown Motors comes out of bankruptcy with a new name to fight Foxconn
Lordstown Motors has emerged from bankruptcy with a new name and a nearly singular focus: continuing its lawsuit against...
IT総合 Applied Intuition lands $6 billion valuation for AI-powered autonomous vehicle software
Autonomous vehicle software company Applied Intuition has raised $250 million in a round that values the startup at $6 b...
IT総合 Lucid Motors is stuck in a fight over the name of its Gravity SUV
Lucid Motors is at risk of losing the trademark for the name of its Gravity SUV, just months before the company is suppo...
IT総合 Faraday Future survives long enough to issue its first recall
Troubled EV startup Faraday Future has issued its first recall, covering all 11 vehicles it built last year, as it fight...
IT総合 Rivian surprise announces the R3 hatchback, and it’s cute as hell
Rivian just surprise-announced an all-electric hatchback called the R3 — giving the company a big Apple-esque R...
IT総合 Waymo launches driverless rides for employees in Austin
Waymo will start letting its autonomous vehicles traverse Austin without a safety operator behind the wheel as of tomorr...
IT総合 Tesla’s Berlin factory to shut down for days after suspected arson attack cuts power
Tesla’s factory outside Berlin, Germany will likely be shut down for days and cost the automaker more than $100 mi...
IT総合 Lordstown Motors charged with misleading investors about the sales potential of its EV pickup
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged bankrupt Lordstown Motors with misleading investors about the sales p...
IT総合 Fisker is laying off 15% of staff and says it needs more cash ahead of a “difficult year”
Electric vehicle startup Fisker is planning to lay off 15% of its workforce and says it likely does not have enough cash...
IT総合 The Apple Car that never was: a timeline
Apple’s secretive car project died without ever seeing the light of day. It’s a fitting end, considering we’ve collectiv...
IT総合 Apple cancels its autonomous electric car project and is laying off some workers
Apple is scuttling its secretive, long-running project to build an autonomous electric car, according to Bloomberg. The ...
IT総合 Nikola sells abandoned electric Badger pickup truck program to friend of disgraced founder Trevor Milton
Beleaguered electric trucking company Nikola has sold the Badger electric pickup truck assets it was once supposed to bu...
IT総合 Lucid Motors will only build 9,000 EVs in 2024 after once predicting it would ship 90,000
Lucid Motors plans to build just 9,000 electric vehicles in 2024, only 500 to 1,000 more than it made in 2023, as it str...
IT総合 Hivemapper reveals new Bee dashcam as its latest weapon against Google’s map dominance
Mapping startup Hivemapper will launch a new dashcam later this year that its co-founder believes will speed up efforts ...
IT総合 Florida man buys Cake’s remaining US inventory of electric motorbikes
The future of bankrupt electric motorbike startup Cake is still uncertain, but the majority of its U.S. inventory is goi...
IT総合 Faraday Future is danger of losing LA headquarters for failing to pay rent
Struggling EV startup Faraday Future owes the landlord of its Los Angeles headquarters nearly $1 million after missing t...
IT総合 Feds open second probe into Fisker’s Ocean SUV after rollaway complaints
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a second investigation into EV startup Fisker’s Ocea...
IT総合 HopSkipDrive beats new California ridesharing emissions targets
Youth rideshare startup HopSkipDrive beat two key new California emissions standards in 2023, an accomplishment the comp...
IT総合 Waymo recalls and updates robotaxi software after two cars crashed into the same towed truck
Waymo is voluntarily recalling the software that powers its robotaxi fleet after two vehicles crashed into the same towe...
IT総合 Cruise names first chief safety officer following crash and controversy
Cruise has named its first “chief safety officer” as part of the company’s effort to rehabilitate itse...
IT総合 Feds probing Lucid’s software fix for defroster recall
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened an investigation into a Lucid Motors windshield de...
IT総合 Jeep-maker Stellantis to adopt Tesla’s charging port
Stellantis, the parent company of brands like Jeep and Chrysler, announced it will adopt Tesla’s North American Ch...
IT総合 Fisker Ocean owners flagged sudden power loss and brake problems for months, internal documents show
On a typically sunny day in Los Angeles last June, Henrik Fisker choked up as he handed over his company’s first a...
IT総合 GM hires ex-Tesla battery guru Kurt Kelty to help with its Ultium problems
General Motors has hired battery expert and ex-Tesla executive Kurt Kelty to be the automaker’s new vice president...
IT総合 Cake sought deals with Harley-Davidson, automakers before bankruptcy
Electric motorcycle company Cake held talks with Harley-Davidson and other automakers in 2023 as it fought to stay alive...
IT総合 EV startup Arrival looks to sell off assets, intellectual property of UK division
Commercial EV startup Arrival’s business continues to unravel. Arrival announced Monday in a regulatory filing tha...
IT総合 Rivian will reveal its smaller, cheaper R2 SUV on March 7
Rivian will reveal its next-generation vehicle — a smaller, cheaper electric SUV known as R2 — on March 7, t...
IT総合 Boutique e-motorcycle startup Cake files for bankruptcy
Electric motorcycle startup Cake filed for bankruptcy February 1, CEO Stefan Ytterborn has confirmed to TechCrunch. The ...
IT総合 Snap recalls discontinued Pixy drone over fire risk
Snap and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are recalling the company’s discontinued Pixy drone and tel...