Experts expect self-driving cars to make the roads much safer, and driving much more convenient. But what will they do to the environment? A newly published study suggests that, under… Read More
Airbus Ventures, the European aerospace giant’s Silicon Valley spin-off, says the first investment from its $150 million venture fund is going to Local Motors, a Phoenix-based company that aims to sell… Read More
Over the weekend, Tesla car owners picked up a new superpower: A feature called Summon can command the Model S or Model X car to drive itself for parking or… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Ford may be best known as an innovative car manufacturer. But the creator of the Mustang, Escape and F-150 is evolving, and CEO Mark Fields says 2016… Read More
A decade from now, we could all be driving low-cost electric cars for hundreds of miles without recharging, thanks to an advance in lithium-air battery technology announced today. Or maybe… Read More
Glympse, the Seattle startup that allows users to share location information with selected individuals, today announced a new version of the service and partnerships with Volkswagen and Peugeot. With the new… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Automobiles today just aren’t steel, glass and rubber. They also are 4-wheeled computers, with new vehicles containing millions of lines of software code — controlling everything from… Read More
Is Microsoft’s relationship with Ford fraying? That’s one way to read a report from Bloomberg today which notes that the Ford is planning to dump Microsoft in favor of BlackBerry… Read More
Tesla is promising “free travel forever” for Model S drivers along Interstate 5, opening two new “supercharger” stations Thursday in Centralia and Burlington, Washington. That means drivers of the Model… Read More
Former Apple retail executive George Blankenship used to be a self-described “Porsche guy.” Then, a couple years ago, Tesla founder Elon Musk put him behind the wheel of a Roadster.… Read More
Tesla isn’t going to let a little legislation slow it down. The electric car maker, whose stock has soared 145 percent so far this year and now boasts a market… Read More
One of my favorite pitches at the TechStars Demo Day last November was a tiny company called Tred that had a big idea: Transform the way people test drive and… Read More
So driverless cars are to be street legal in California! I thought it would be fun to look “under the hood,” so to speak, at the text of the legislation… Read More
The high-end electric sports cars from Tesla Motors are a favorite among tech geeks. And given that love affair, what better spot to showcase the capabilities of the vehicles than… Read More