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Rivian sued for allegedly promising self-driving features its first-generation vehicles can never deliver

Rivian is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it spent five years making false promises about the autonomous driving capabilities of its first-generation R1T truck and R1S SUV. The complaint, filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Central District of California, claims Rivian represented that its flagship vehicles would be capable of hands-free, eyes-off driving, […]

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BMW slashes profit forecast as China’s EV makers squeeze European carmakers on two fronts

BMW on Tuesday cut its full-year profit forecast for the car business, lowering its expected automotive EBIT margin to a corridor of 1 to 3 per cent from prior guidance of 4 to 6 per cent. The company blamed an accelerating decline in the Chinese market and the widening economic fallout from the conflict in the Middle […]

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Ford pivots its Kentucky battery plant from EVs to AI data centre storage in a $2 billion bet

Ford has launched Ford Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary that will manufacture large-scale battery energy storage systems for utilities, data centres, and industrial customers. The company has committed roughly $2 billion to the operation, which repurposes a Kentucky plant originally built for electric vehicle batteries. The subsidiary is led by Lisa Drake, who reports directly to Ford […]

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Waymo issues its sixth recall after robotaxis drove into highway construction zones 13 times

Waymo has issued its sixth recall, covering nearly 4,000 robotaxis that drove into highway construction zones at least 13 times across two cities. Six incidents occurred in Phoenix in April. Seven happened in the San Francisco Bay Area on a single day in May. A fix is “currently under development,” according to NHTSA filings. The […]

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Europe’s carmakers are pivoting to defence as EV demand slows and military budgets soar

Four European automakers announced military vehicle partnerships in the past week. Ineos is bidding for a UK Ministry of Defence contract. Daimler Truck launched a dedicated defence brand. Renault partnered with Thales for armoured vehicles. Mercedes-Benz teamed up with a German startup to build anti-drone platforms. The European car industry is retooling for rearmament. Ineos […]

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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 the clearest sign yet of how Uber intends to fight […]

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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 doing the driving itself. The Jerusalem company announced plans to launch its […]

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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 event in Anaheim on Thursday, Scaringe laid out a three-stage autonomy roadmap: supervised point-to-point driving in […]

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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 metres long and is designed to compete directly with the Kia EV9, Hyundai Ioniq 9, […]

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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 Anderson, the former head of Tesla’s Autopilot program, told Business Insider that GM’s personal autonomy strategy and the robotaxi business […]

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