Enlarge / As of 7:30 am Eastern, all domestic flights have been grounded due to a NOTAM outage. Getty Images reader comments 156 with 0 posters participating Share this story Update 9:20 am ET: The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted the ground stop order issued earlier this morning. In a tweet, the FAA said that… Read More »
Enlarge / There are many good reasons why an EV charger should be networked, but it does come with vulnerabilities. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as passed by Congress last November, authorizes $7.5 billion to help meet US President Joe Biden’s goal of installing 500,000 stations by 2030.… Read More »
Enlarge / Tesla charging station at the Chesapeake House Travel Plaza off I-95 in Maryland on March 11, 2022. Getty Images | Tom Williams reader comments 289 with 127 posters participating Share this story Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to cut 10 percent of jobs at the electric carmaker because he has a “super bad… Read More »
Enlarge / These days, it’s hard to buy a new vehicle without giving the dealer an extra wad of cash. Thitiphat Khuankaew / EyeEm / Getty Images reader comments 173 with 85 posters participating, including story author Share this story If there’s anything harder to buy right now than a new PlayStation 5 or a graphics… Read More »
Enlarge / A Cruise robotaxi test vehicle in San Francisco. reader comments 36 with 23 posters participating Share this story The autonomous vehicle developers Cruise and Waymo both got a little closer to running true driverless robotaxi services in and around San Francisco. In May, both Waymo and Cruise applied to the California Department of… Read More »
reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating Share this story This is the BrightDrop EV410, a new electric delivery commercial vehicle from General Motors. BrightDrop General Motors employee Anshul Shah attaches trim pieces onto the BrightDrop EV600, the company’s first all-electric light commercial vehicle purpose-built for the delivery of goods and services Friday, September 24,… Read More »
Enlarge / A rendering of the BlueOvalSK campus in Glendale, Kentucky. reader comments 60 with 43 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Monday, the Ford Motor Company announced a massive investment to build electric vehicles in Kentucky and Tennessee. Together with partner SK Innovation, it will invest $11.4 billion and create around… Read More »
Enlarge / Don’t expect cheaper chips anytime soon. Tommy/Getty Images reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating Share this story The semiconductor chip shortage that has so vexed the auto industry looks set to continue for quite some time, according to a new industry survey. More than half of the companies that were surveyed by… Read More »
Enlarge / Lyft will switch its map provider from Google to Here. reader comments 57 with 46 posters participating Share this story The ride-hailing company Lyft is changing up its search data and places provider, which until now have been powered by Google. Lyft will now use Here instead. Lyft says the switch will mean… Read More »
Enlarge / TSMC’s headquarters, seen here, are in Hsinchu, Taiwan. reader comments 38 with 34 posters participating Share this story Carmakers can expect a sharp upturn in chip supplies in the coming weeks, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said, signaling that a global shortage may have moved past its most crippling stage. In the first… Read More »