Tesla exec Drew Baglino reportedly out as company lays off 10%
Tesla is laying off thousands of employees as it tries to simultaneously cut costs and boost productivity, according to an internal email sent to staff by CEO Elon Musk, Electrek…
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 driver assistance system, BlueCruise, according to data obtained by the…
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 it has announced to date. They also claim founder Jia…
Tesla risks losing its lead without an inexpensive EV
Elon Musk’s decision to green-light a robotaxi over an affordable EV might cost the company its lead. Last week, Musk reportedly canned the effort in favor of a robotaxi, the…
Tesla reportedly drops plan to build $25K EV
Tesla is reportedly abandoning its plan to build a lower-cost EV, thought to be priced around $25,000, according to Reuters, despite that vehicle’s status as a pivotal product for the…
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 unprecedented backlog of inventory. Many long-range and…
Ford delays new EVs once more, showing why legacy automakers need to adopt a startup mentality
Ford announced Thursday that it’s delaying the production of two electric vehicles, a next-generation EV pickup and a three-row EV SUV. The pair are now slated to arrive in 2026…
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 startup reached an agreement April 2 with its landlord, Rexford Industrial,…
Former Snap AI chief launches Higgsfield to take on OpenAI’s Sora video generator
OpenAI captivated the tech world a few months back with a generative AI model, Sora, that turns scene descriptions into original videos — no cameras or film crews required. But…
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 SUV, this time centered on problems getting the doors to open. NHTSA’s Office of…
Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO’s private jet in 2023
Tucked inside Canoo’s 2023 earnings report is a nugget regarding the use of CEO Tony Aquila’s private jet — just one of many expenses that illustrates the gap between spending…
EV charging highway will charge EVs big and small
Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation are coming together for quite the partnership. The two groups will band together to create the first EV charging highway, and construction…
Furnished rental startup Blueground defies proptech woes with $560M in revenue, a new $45M raise
Alex Chatzieleftheriou founded Blueground in 2013 after being frustrated with the dearth of short-term furnished apartments in Europe. He had been traveling as a consultant for McKinsey, living almost exclusively…
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 internal audit that started in December and took months to complete,…
Rivian starts offering adapters to access Tesla’s Supercharger network
Rivian customers can now request an adapter to tap into Tesla’s vast North American network of Superchargers, making it the second automaker to do so behind Ford. The company announced…
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 iPhone-maker Foxconn for allegedly “destroying the business of an American startup.”…
Pint-size pickup startup Telo Trucks finds unexpected niche in fleet customers
When electric-vehicle startup Telo Trucks announced its pint-sized pickup, people predictably went nuts. There’s a cadre for whom small trucks aren’t just convenient, they’re a lifestyle, one that major automakers…
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 supposed to start production. Google Ventures-backed EV charging…
Rivian’s new ‘treehouse’ rooftop tent comes with a movie projector
Rivian has a little cinematic surprise tucked in its new “treehouse” rooftop tent, one of the many accessories the automaker plans to sell alongside its next-generation R2 SUV and future…
GM resumes Chevy Blazer EV sales with new software and lower prices
General Motors has resumed sales of the Chevrolet Blazer EV — and at a cheaper price — more than two months after the automaker pulled the vehicle over software problems.…
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 fights to hold onto its Los Angeles headquarters. The recall…
Worldcoin says it’s filing legal challenge to Spain’s temporary ban
A German subsidiary involved in Sam Altman’s controvercial crypto blockchain digital identity business, Worldcoin, was reported Friday to have filed a legal challenge against a suspension order from Spain’s data…
2024 Nissan Leaf regains access to the federal EV tax credit
When the new federal requirements for the EV tax credit kicked into effect on January 1st, a ton of electric vehicles that previously qualified for the full tax credit had…
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 prospects of its Endurance electric pickup truck. Lordstown has agreed to pay $25.5 million…
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 on hand to survive the next 12 months.…
The all-electric Ford Maverick could still be a decade away
I’m currently in the middle of a battle to the death over what my next car is going to be, and an all-electric Ford Maverick has been a potential surprise…
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 struggles with demand for its luxury sedans.…
San Francisco Giants replace Cruise self-driving car uniform patch with another GM brand
The San Francisco Giants said goodbye this week to a uniform patch that advertised Cruise and its robotaxis — the latest fallout for the GM self-driving subsidiary and its controversial…
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 Ocean SUV, after the agency received four complaints about the vehicle rolling away unexpectedly, including…
Roam raises $24M to scale electric vehicle production in Kenya
Roam, an EV startup based in Kenya, has raised $24 million in a Series A round, including up to $10 million debt commitment from the U.S International Development Finance Corporation…
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 defroster recall from January, saying it’s “concerned” the company’s over-the-air update solution doesn’t go…
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 all-electric SUVs in the United States. “I’m really kind…
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, founder and CEO Stefan Ytterborn told TechCrunch in an interview Tuesday.…
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 that its UK division is entering administration, the country’s version of bankruptcy. The troubled company,…
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, the company announced Monday morning. There’s little other detail about the…
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 company, which went public after merging with a special purpose acquisition company,…
Lamborghini licenses MIT’s new high-capacity, fast-charging organic battery tech
Lithium-ion batteries have come a long way, but in many ways they haven’t come far enough. They charge faster than ever before, but there’s still room for improvement. The materials…
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 prominently displays the same electric pickup truck he once promised would beat…
BMW’s future growth depends on EVs, and it’s finally going all in
While other automakers are dialing back their electric vehicle plans, BMW is quietly going all in. “The tipping point for the combustion engine was last year,” CFO Walter Mertl told…
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 units in at least two of them caught fire late last year.…