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...
Sean O Kane
IT総合 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...
IT総合 Tesla sued for allegedly mishandling hazardous waste in California for years
Tesla has been sued by 25 California counties alleging the automaker has repeatedly mishandled hazardous waste at facili...
IT総合 Arrival’s spectacular fall continues with a delisting from Nasdaq
Commercial EV startup Arrival is being removed from the Nasdaq stock exchange as it speeds toward dissolution. The compa...
IT総合 Tesla to spend $500M to bring its Dojo supercomputer project to Buffalo factory
Tesla will spend $500 million to build one of its so-called “Dojo” supercomputers at its Buffalo, New York f...
IT総合 Lordstown Motors founder launches new EV startup with trucks we’ve seen before
The ousted founder of bankrupt EV startup Lordstown Motors has launched a new company called LandX Motors, that prominen...
IT総合 GM recalls dozens of electric BrightDrop vans after two reported fires
General Motors is recalling around 66 electric delivery vans made by its BrightDrop subsidiary after the front drive uni...
IT総合 TuSimple is leaving the Nasdaq as it exits the US
Chinese autonomous trucking startup TuSimple will delist itself from the Nasdaq stock exchange as it moves forward with ...
IT総合 Fisker’s electric Ocean SUV under investigation over braking loss complaints
Federal safety regulators have opened an investigation into Fisker’s first electric vehicle over braking problems....
IT総合 TuSimple’s self-driving trucks up for auction following U.S. exit
Ten of TuSimple’s autonomous big rigs are set to be auctioned off later this month, just a few weeks after the sel...
IT総合 Lucid Motors sold just 6,001 cars in 2023
Lucid Motors delivered only 6,001 of the 8,428 cars it built last year, as it continues to struggle to generate demand f...
IT総合 Hertz is selling 20,000 EVs and replacing them with gas cars
Hertz is selling off a third of its electric vehicle fleet, which is predominantly made up of Teslas, and will buy gas c...