Vehicles

The luxury all-electric Air sedan maker Lucid Group will supply Aston Martin with powertrain components for future electric vehicles, the companies announced Monday. The iconic British luxury automaker plans to launch an EV in 2025. Lucid can now supply and diversify its revenue streams with the agreement. Lucid has missed …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company wants to invest in India and bring the electric carmaker there “as soon as humanly possible.” Musk hopes to “announce something in the not too distant future” with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a “very good” conversation on Tuesday. Tesla and New …

Mercedes-Benz received a permit from California regulators to sell or lease vehicles with a conditional automated driving system for hands-free driving on certain highways. Mercedes-Benz received a deployment permit for its Drive Pilot system from the California DMV on Thursday. The hands-off, eyes-off system can be used on certain California …

Between 2022 and 2023, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and other app-based ride-hail and delivery companies must reimburse California gig workers millions of dollars for unpaid vehicle expenses. Proposition 22, the controversial law that classifies gig workers as independent contractors and offers them limited protections and benefits, mandates the back payments. Gig …

Generative AI, which translates text into prose, graphics, and videos, is developing in a fragmented tech landscape between the U.S. and China due to the decoupling. China is developing huge language models like OpenAI’s GPT models to minimize its reliance on the U.S. Unlike the U.S., Baidu is one of …

Nikola, the struggling electric truck developer, disclosed Thursday in a regulatory filing that Nasdaq may delist it. Nikola received a delisting notice from the public exchange on May 24 due to its 30-day share price below $1. The company must meet Nasdaq’s minimum price rule of $1 for 10 business …

Ford and Tesla have agreed to give Ford EV owners access to over 12,000 superchargers in the U.S. and Canada. This agreement goes beyond access to Tesla superchargers via adapter. Ford’s 2025 EVs will have Tesla’s NACS charge port. Ford’s second-generation EV lineup includes an electric truck and a three-row …

Virgin Galactic hopes to resume crewed flights later this month, nearly two years after its first and only flight in July 2021. The space tourism company announced Monday that it will launch four people in late May. The mission validates the spaceflight system and “astronaut experience” before commercial service begins …

Three years after launching Cariad, VW Group has changed its leadership again. On Monday, Cariad’s board replaced CEO Dirk Hilgenberg with VW’s Bentley manufacturing chief Peter Bosch. Hilgenberg joined Cariad 2020. Bosch will lead June 1. Restructuring eliminated CFO Thomas Sedran and CTO Lynn Longo. VW has struggled to launch …

Faraday Future, a publicly traded company, should jump into the AI hype machine now because it is nearly out of cash and its long-delayed EV has yet to reach customers. Faraday Future announced Tuesday that its first production car, the FF 91 Futurist, will have generative AI. Never mind that …