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Volkswagen will take its China-developed CMP platform and CEA electronics to South America by 2030, Reuters reports. Europe and North America wait for now.
VW may base three-quarters of its next VW, Škoda and Cupra models in Europe on Xpeng-developed tech, shrinking Rivian's $5.8B role, Reuters reports.
Emergency Drive Away lets a plugged-in Tesla shift into Drive after the Twin Falls shooting. It wrecks the charge port, and repairs can hit $25,000.
A Xiaomi YU7 GT circled the Nürburgring Nordschleife with an empty driver’s seat and logged 10 minutes, 29.483 seconds, the first officially timed autonomous lap of the German circuit. Xiaomi set the run on June 8 and announced it on June 22, releasing onboard video that shows the steering wheel turning itself through the corners…
Samsung Electronics will hold an equipment installation ceremony at its Taylor, Texas foundry on April 24, 2026, kicking off the final run-up to mass production of Tesla’s AI5 and AI6 autonomous-driving chips on a 2-nanometer process. Han Jin-man, president of Samsung’s Foundry Business Division, will lead the ceremony alongside executives and representatives from materials, component,…
Tesla has officially detailed its Spring 2026 software update, and the feature list is longer than any single-season release in recent memory. Tesla reporter Sawyer Merritt posted the full breakdown on X on April 13, 2026 — the specific post URL was not publicly accessible at time of publication — covering twelve named changes and…
Tesla has pushed Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3 to owners via an over-the-air update, shipping inside software version 2026.2.9.6. The release notes, published on NotATeslaApp and flagged by Tesla reporter Sawyer Merritt on X, is one of the larger FSD point releases in recent memory. The headline change is a ground-up rewrite of the AI compiler…
California’s top ride-hailing regulator confirmed Tesla’s “Robotaxi” service holds only a limousine permit and is exempt from all autonomous vehicle reporting requirements.
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