Ford turns to F1 and bounties to build a $30,000 electric truck

The team, led by Tesla veteran Alan Clarke, is obsessed with efficiency.

After hidden doors, yoke-style half-steering wheels could go out of vogue soon

China’s draft safety update requires full-rim steering wheels from 2027, sidelining yoke designs and reinforcing a regulatory pivot toward practicality over futuristic automotive styling trends.
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CarPlay is still on track for Tesla cars, but you might have to wait longer

Tesla is still bringing Apple CarPlay to its vehicles, but rollout depends on wider iOS 26 adoption and resolved Apple Maps compatibility fixes.
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TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s savior

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle  Auto Sensor Economics
Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle  Auto Sensor Economics

MicroVision, a solid-state sensor technology company located in Redmond, Wash., says it has designed a solid-state automotive lidar sensor intended to reach production pricing below US $200. That’s less than half of typical prices now, and it’s not ev…

Texas bets on Tesla bets on WeChat, and a bet on Toyota to crack solid-state
Texas bets on Tesla bets on WeChat, and a bet on Toyota to crack solid-state

On today’s Texas-sized episode of Quick Charge, Tesla Cybertruck owners in the Lone Star state get V2G access, Tesla Model 3 and Y models get WeChat via OTA, and Toyota has an all-new electric Toyota Highlander with up to 320 miles of range!

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Tesla Semi specs and pricing, L4 haul trucks, and Windrose’ mobile AI concept
Tesla Semi specs and pricing, L4 haul trucks, and Windrose’ mobile AI concept

On today’s long overdue episode of Quick Charge, we’ve finally got production specs and pricing on the Tesla Semi first revealed by Elon Musk nine (9) years ago. Will it be a revolution, or a case of too little, too late to make a real impact?

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Former Tesla product manager wants to make luxury goods impossible to fake, starting with a chip

The fake goods crisis cuts two ways. Luxury brands lose more than $30 billion a year to counterfeits, while buyers in the booming $210 billion second-hand market have no reliable way to verify that what they’re purchasing is genuine. Veritas want…

Toyota just introduced its own robotaxi to tackle Tesla and Waymo

Toyota and Pony.ai debut a mass-produced bZ4X robotaxi in China, aiming to scale autonomous mobility with cost cuts, industrial discipline, and a long-term challenge to Tesla and Waymo.
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A Chinese EV giant could be testing superchargers with an absurd output

Documents circulating in China hint that BYD may be experimenting with absurdly powerful EV chargers capable of delivering hundreds of kilometers of range in just minutes.
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