Uber vs Waymo trial officially opens in court
The first driverless-car era lawsuit begun today on February 5th with two of technology’s heavyweights facing each other in the courtroom. Waymo is suing Uber over intellectual property theft of secrets that specialists consider...
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will carry Musk’s Tesla as its first payload
Elon Musk tweeted over the weekend that the first payload of the Falcon Heavy rocket on its maiden flight would be his own personal Tesla Roadster, color midnight cherry, playing Space Oddity by David...
Uber and Volvo double down on driverless cars for 2019
Uber Technologies and Volvo Cars have reached an agreement this Monday, in which the automaker will supply the ridesharing company with 24,000 XC90 models between 2019 and 2021. Uber will then stock them up...
Uber and NASA will make flying taxis an L.A. thing in 2020
Uber's Chief Product Officer Jeff Holden announced this Wednesday at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal, that Los Angeles would be the next city where they plan to test and deploy flying cars...
Waymo is going fully self-driving in Arizona roads
On Tuesday, Waymo CEO John Krafcik announced that the company will introduce a ride-hailing service in the coming months with a subset of autonomous Chrysler Pacifica vans with no safety drivers behind the wheel...
Alphabet’s CapitalG helps give Lyft a $1 billion lift
Lyft announced on Thursday that Alphabet’s CapitalG led a $1 billion funding round, the most recent in company history. Now valued at $11 billion, Lyft and its close ties to Google might represent bad...
Mercedes-AMG Project One revealed at IAA 2017
Mercedez Benz and AMG presented the Project One concept car at IAA in Frankfurt, Germany this Monday. The hypercar is a celebration of the performance automaker’s 50th anniversary, for which it includes Formula 1...
2018 Nissan Leaf: new design, more range, all electric
Late on Tuesday, Nissan unveiled the all-new 2018 Leaf at a world premiere event in the Las Vegas Strip. The king of electric vehicles is back with a new design and more smart features...
VW’s electric I.D. Buzz revives the groovy Microbus
Volkswagen announced this weekend at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California that they would be turning the I.D. Buzz concept into an all-electric reality. The 1960s Microbus’ successor will hit European, Chinese, and American...
Tesla faces challenges after launch of Model 3
On Saturday, Elon Musk officially took the first step toward the full-scale launch of the Tesla Model 3. The CEO handed over the keys to the first 30 Model 3 vehicles to employees, and...