China has new EV safety rules ready. The US needs to follow in its footsteps

China’s new EV safety rules force tougher battery fire tests and physical power shutoffs, creating a sharper benchmark as the U.S. weighs how to make electric cars safer.

Uber’s robotaxi service is heading to Houston to take another swing at Waymo
Uber’s robotaxi service is heading to Houston to take another swing at Waymo

Uber is taking its robotaxi service to Houston. The company said on 17 June that it will launch a premium driverless service in the city by mid-2027, the second US market for its partnership with EV maker Lucid and self-driving startup Nuro. It is also…

Mercedes’s Chinese partner made an EV that costs under $10,000 and looks deceptively stylish

The EV has a 15.6-inch screen, Apple CarPlay, a dashcam, and 450km of range. It is not coming to the US. That is the whole story.

Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.
Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.

For 25 years, Mobileye has been the arms dealer of self-driving, selling the cameras, chips, and software that now sit inside more than 230 million cars, while pointedly leaving the driving business to everyone else. On 16 June, it said it would start …

China’s biggest carmakers are designing their own driving chips, and Nvidia should be worried
China’s biggest carmakers are designing their own driving chips, and Nvidia should be worried

A new arms race is under way in China’s electric vehicle industry, and it is not about batteries, range, or price. It is about who controls the silicon that makes cars drive themselves. In the past 12 months, four of China’s largest carmakers have unve…

Rivian CEO says supervised point-to-point self-driving will arrive this year, and he’s comparing it directly to Tesla’s FSD
Rivian CEO says supervised point-to-point self-driving will arrive this year, and he’s comparing it directly to Tesla’s FSD

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the company will ship supervised point-to-point self-driving on all of its second-generation vehicles and the R2 later this year, describing the capability as “very similar to Tesla’s FSD.” Speaking at the Masters of Scale e…

The world’s biggest battery maker just pumped the brakes on solid-state EV hype

CATL chairman Robin Zeng says manufacturing challenges will keep solid-state batteries out of mass-market EVs until at least 2030, with early production limited to premium vehicles.

Skoda’s Peaq is a seven-seat electric SUV built to undercut the Kia EV9 and Ioniq 9 on price
Skoda’s Peaq is a seven-seat electric SUV built to undercut the Kia EV9 and Ioniq 9 on price

Skoda has revealed the Peaq, its first seven-seat all-electric SUV and the most expensive car in the Czech automaker’s 130-year history. Built on the Volkswagen Group’s MEB platform at Skoda’s home plant in Mladá Boleslav, the Peaq stretches nearly 4.9…

GM says its autonomous cars will eventually be capable of running as robotaxis too
GM says its autonomous cars will eventually be capable of running as robotaxis too

General Motors shut down Cruise, its $10 billion robotaxi division, in December 2024. Eighteen months later, the company’s chief product officer says GM’s autonomous vehicles will eventually be capable of operating as robotaxis anyway. Sterling Anderso…