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Hyundai and Kia built a UV system that kills bacteria inside a car while you are sitting in it

Hyundai and Kia have unveiled an in-vehicle sanitization system that uses far-ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and viruses inside a car cabin, even while passengers are present. The technology, called Plasma Care UVC, is what the companies describe as the first system of its kind designed for production vehicles. Conventional ultraviolet sterilization poses a risk […]

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GM’s Q2 sales fell four percent as EV demand dropped and Toyota closed in

General Motors’ second-quarter US sales fell just over four percent as demand for its all-electric vehicles and Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks declined year over year. The Detroit automaker reported selling 714,896 vehicles from April through June, down from 746,588 units during the same period in 2025. First-half sales came in at roughly 1,300,000 units, down […]

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Tesla starts testing its production Cybercab without steering wheel or pedals in Austin

Tesla has begun testing a production version of its Cybercab on public roads in Austin, Texas, with no steering wheel and no pedals. The two-seat vehicle, which Tesla first revealed in October 2024, is being driven entirely by its autonomous software while a safety monitor rides in the right passenger seat. Tesla posted video of […]

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Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix after nearly three years of robotaxi collaboration

Waymo robotaxis are no longer available on Uber’s app in Phoenix, ending a nearly three-year partnership in the city that served as the first test of whether the two former courtroom rivals could work together. Both companies confirmed the split to TechCrunch on Monday. Waymo said the vehicles have already been folded back into its […]

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Self-driving firm Momenta opens $752mn Hong Kong IPO

Momenta is heading to the public markets. The self-driving software firm has opened its Hong Kong IPO, seeking up to $752mn to pour into AI research and robotaxis. The Momenta IPO would value the GM-backed company at close to $9bn. The Suzhou-based company started taking investor orders this week under stock code 6880. It is […]

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Tesla settles a fatal Full Self-Driving crash lawsuit

A settlement is the sound a lawsuit makes when it stops. For Tesla, one just went quiet. The far louder problem, a federal safety investigation, is still talking. Tesla has settled a lawsuit tied to a fatal 2023 crash involving its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, Bloomberg first reported. Neither side disclosed the terms. TechCrunch laid […]

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Auto repair is one of the least digitised industries in America. AI is changing the economics of why.

North America has more than 280,000 independent auto repair shops. Most run on workflows a 1990s small business owner would recognise: phone-based scheduling, paper repair orders, manual parts ordering. The global auto repair software market is projected to grow from $3.4 billion in 2026 to $8.6 billion by 2033, a 14.2% CAGR, according to Persistence […]

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Ford had to rehire 350 engineers after its AI got vehicle quality wrong

Ford has admitted that it had to rehire experienced engineers after its AI systems failed to deliver the quality the company expected. Charles Poon, Ford’s VP of vehicle hardware engineering, told reporters that the automaker mistakenly believed it could swap in AI and still produce a high-quality product. The admission, first reported by The Verge, […]

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Russian hackers were behind the Jaguar Land Rover attack that cost the British economy two and a half billion dollars

Russian hackers were behind last year’s devastating cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover, according to a New York Times investigation published Thursday. The breach, which began on 31 August 2025, shut down production across JLR’s factories for nearly six weeks and cost the British economy an estimated two and a half billion dollars, making it the […]

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Aseon Labs raises ten million dollars to build parking-space-sized pods that charge and clean robotaxis

Aseon Labs, a Redwood City startup building automated service pods for robotaxi fleets, has raised ten million dollars in a seed round led by Crane Venture Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Y Combinator, Uber co-founder Garrett Camp’s venture firm Expa, Robin Hood Ventures, and Founders Capital also participated, alongside angel investors including Mercury founder Immad Akhund, […]

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