For nearly nine years, Elon Musk has promised Tesla vehicles had the hardware needed to support a self-driving car. This week, he made his latest admission that many are not. Musk said on a conference call Wednesday evening that Tesla cars equipped with so-called Hardware 3 will need an upgrade before they can support unsupervised [β¦]
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday his company will launch a paid ride-hailing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas using its own fleet vehicles this coming June β the latest in a long line of sky-high promises he has yet to meet about autonomy. Musk was otherwise unsurprisingly light on details. During an earnings call, Musk [β¦]
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UVeye started as a play to scan cars for security threats, but the Israeli startup really hit its stride when its founders realized the AI-powered computer vision systems could perform more typical vehicle inspections. Now, the company is evolving its funding strategy. UVeye announced Wednesday morning a $191 million extension to its 2023 Series D [β¦]
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Tesla earnings day is upon us β the quarterly check-in with one of the worldβs largest EV makers and its controversial CEO Elon Musk. Teslaβs fourth-quarter and full-year earnings are expected to be released Wednesday after market close. A webcast, in which Tesla management will answer questions from analysts and retail investors, is scheduled to [β¦]
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Boom Supersonicβs XB-1 demonstrator plane just went supersonic in the skies over Californiaβs Mojave Desert, making it the first civil aircraft to break the sound barrier. The American startupβs plane notched the historic achievement in its 12th test flight. It cleared Mach 1 and stayed supersonic for around four minutes, reaching Mach 1.1. Test pilot [β¦]
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Tesla has announced that its redesigned Model Y SUV is coming to the U.S., Canada, and Mexico in March, with a starting price just shy of $60,000. The news comes just two weeks after Tesla revealed the new-look Model Y and said the SUV was coming to China and other Asian markets, also in March. [β¦]
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President Donald Trump is trying to halt the flow of funding for EV charging infrastructure from two programs that have benefited Tesla β the latest example of how Elon Muskβs political interests seem to be at odds with his car companyβs goal of advancing sustainable energy. Itβs not a given that Trumpβs gambit will succeed. [β¦]
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Seven-year-old electric vehicle startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy and will βcease operations immediately.β The company is liquidating its assets in a Chapter 7 proceeding in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court. The company said in a press release published late Friday that it was βin discussions with foreign sources of capitalβ that proved unsuccessful, and also [β¦]
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The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring Elon Muskβs SpaceX and Jeff Bezosβ Blue Origin to investigate what went wrong on their respective mega-rocket test flights this week. The regulator said both companies must perform whatβs known as a βmishap investigation.β These probes involve the companies and the FAA working together to understand what went wrong, [β¦]
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Rivian and the Department of Energy have finalized a $6.6 billion loan announced in November with just a few days left until Donald Trumpβs inauguration. The company will use the loan to help build out its planned factory in Georgia, east of Atlanta, with construction beginning in 2026. The first R2 SUVs are scheduled to [β¦]
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told TechCrunch it had to βbrieflyβ slow and divert a number of aircraft in the airspace near Puerto Rico, where debris was seen falling after SpaceXβs Starship exploded during a test flight Thursday. Multiple flights could be seen entering holding patterns or completely changing course in the airspace near the [β¦]
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SpaceX caught the Starship rocketβs Super Heavy booster for a second time, after it launched the upper stage into space on Thursday during a seventh test flight of the system. Soon after the successful catch, SpaceX representatives reported the ship was lost after the company lost contact about eight and half minutes into the flight. [β¦]
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Volvo spinoff Polestar had a rough 2024, and 2025 looks like it could be just as difficult. The EV maker announced Thursday that it expects to generate less revenue in fiscal year 2024 than it did in 2023, after previously estimating sales would stay the same. Thatβs thanks to βfewer than expected Polestar 3 and [β¦]
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Jeff Bezosβ spaceflight company Blue Origin on Thursday launched its new mega-rocket, called New Glenn, into orbit for the first time. The rocket lifted off at 2:03 a.m. ET on January 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and crossed the official boundary into space a few minutes later. Shortly after, a second-stage burn placed the rocketβs [β¦]
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Tesla, along with three other industry partners, quietly backed an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency application that won $100 million in funding to build electric truck charging stations across the state, TechCrunch has learned. The award was the biggest given out by the Biden administrationβs Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) last week in the second round of [β¦]
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Itβs not an easy time to raise money for an electric vehicle startup, especially given how many have failed or are close to failing. But Los Angeles-based Harbinger has pulled it off by taking a hyper-focused approach to electrifying commercial trucking.Β The reward is a $100 million Series B, co-led by early Tesla investor Capricorn [β¦]
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The Department of Transportation announced Friday another $636 million in funding that will be awarded to 49 applicantsΒ for electric-vehicle charging infrastructure β and Teslaβs application for nearly $100 million to fund a big-rig charging corridor was once again passed over. Teslaβs name was not among the list of recipients released, and its partner on the [β¦]
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Jeff Bezosβ space company Blue Origin postponed the inaugural launch of its first orbital rocket, New Glenn, early Monday morning after experiencing an unspecified issue with one of the vehicleβs subsystems. While delays like this happen all the time in spaceflight, this one once again puts the timing of the much-anticipated launch in question. According [β¦]
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I did not go to CES 2025 with the goal of getting drenched by Lake Meadβs chilly January waters. But when I discovered Los Angeles-based boat startup Arc had brought its new sport boat to Las Vegas, I figured it was worth the risk. It was. The Arc Sport was a joy to drive, even [β¦]
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Tesla has revealed a new-look Model Y meant for the Chinese and other Asian-Pacific markets, marking the first major update to the SUV since its launch in 2020. The redesign comes as Tesla finished 2024 having delivered fewer vehicles than it did in 2023. It was the first year-over-year drop since the company started selling [β¦]
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