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

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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

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

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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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Rivian lays off hundreds of workers one week after launching R2 deliveries as it chases its first profit

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Rivian said Tuesday it laid off hundreds of workers, less than 2% of its workforce, as the electric vehicle maker continues trying to narrow losses that have defined its existence as a public company. The cuts affect teams in the service and customer segments, according to a company spokesperson. Rivian had 15,232 employees across North […]

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Xiaomi built a robotic arm that plugs in your EV at home, delivering on a promise Tesla made in 2014 and never kept

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Xiaomi has unveiled a robotic charging arm designed for residential garages that automatically plugs and unplugs an electric vehicle without any owner intervention. The system detects the vehicle’s position after parking, extends to the charging port, connects the cable, and retracts it once charging is complete or a preset battery level is reached. Xiaomi is […]

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Geely will purge excess factory capacity and focus on becoming a global competitor to BYD

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Geely Auto chairman Li Shufu told the Chongqing Auto Show on Friday that the company will assess excess capacity across all its units and determine whether to close, suspend, merge, or sell redundant production facilities. The announcement signals a strategic pivot for China’s second-largest carmaker, which has been locked in a fierce domestic battle with […]

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

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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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Musk says the ‘acid test’ for Tesla’s self-driving is sleeping through your commute. His Austin robotaxis crash four times more than humans.

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Elon Musk has called the ability to fall asleep in a Tesla and wake up at your destination the “acid test” for true autonomy. He first described that vision in 2014 and repeated it on Tesla’s Q1 2025 earnings call, saying he was confident it would be available in many US cities by the end of that […]

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BYD says demand is double its capacity, but its sales data tells a different story

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BYD’s executive vice president Stella Li told CNBC on Monday that China’s EV market will push to close to 80% penetration, a bullish forecast that contrasts sharply with rival Nio, whose chief executive William Li said last month that the industry’s “golden era” was over. The prediction arrives on the same day the Pentagon added […]

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Lucid’s Gravity SUV gets hands-free highway driving in its latest over-the-air update

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Lucid has begun rolling out UX 3.6, an over-the-air software update that adds hands-free highway driving to the Gravity SUV. The update is available now in the United States and Canada, but only for vehicles equipped with DreamDrive Pro 2, an optional hardware package that is not standard on all Gravity trims. Hands-Free Drive Assist takes […]

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