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Slate

Slate Truck Ships With No Modem, Making Driver Tracking Physically Impossible

Slate Auto's electric pickup ships with no embedded modem, so it physically can't transmit your location. Why that hardware choice beats any privacy policy.

Haye KestelooJun 4

California

Tesla Settles Three Fremont Racism Claims Days Before Trial, But the State’s July Case Still Moves Forward

Tesla has settled three individual Fremont factory racism claims days before trial, but California's systemic Civil Rights Department lawsuit still moves to trial on July 20, 2026.

Haye KestelooJun 4

Rolls-Royce Updates Its Electric Spectre Series II, Now the Most Powerful Rolls Ever

The new Rolls Royce Spectre Series II brings a 308-mile range, NACS charging, and a 680 hp Black Badge variant to fight off a massive global sales decline.

Haye KestelooJun 4

Tesla

Philadelphia ChargePHL Plans To Add 800 Public EV Chargers, But 10 Years Is a Long Time to Wait

Philadelphia is moving to quadruple its public EV chargers network through a 10-year public-private partnership called ChargePHL, with legislation introduced Thursday by Council

Haye KestelooJun 4

Model Y

Toyota bZ Undercuts The Tesla Model Y By $5,000, But Edmunds Still Hands Tesla The Win

Toyota rebuilt its only electric SUV from the floor up for 2026, dropped the clumsy bZ4X name, cut the entry price below $35,000, and added 62 miles of range to its volume trim. Edmunds just put the renamed Toyota bZ head-to-head against the Tesla Model Y and reached a split decision: the bZ wins on…

Haye KestelooJun 3

Tesla

Tesla Stretches Its Austin Robotaxi Map Across the Metro While the Driverless Fleet Shrinks to 20 Cars

Tesla widened its unsupervised robotaxi service to cover the entire Austin metropolitan area on Wednesday, more than doubling the operating zone and opening up highway driving on Interstate 35 along with suburbs like Pflugerville and Manor. The company’s official Robotaxi account announced the change on X, and Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software,…

Haye KestelooJun 3

Texas

Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Filings Reveal Just 42 Texas Vehicles as Tracker Data Shows a Shrinking Count

Tesla’s long-promised robotaxi network is far smaller than its rhetoric suggests. State filings made public on May 28 show the company has 42 autonomous vehicles registered in Texas, while a separate third-party tracker counts as few as 20 cars actually carrying passengers without a human safety driver. Both numbers land hard against Elon Musk’s prediction…

Haye KestelooMay 31

Taycan

Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door EV Brings 1,153 HP and a Fake V8, But Its Design Is Splitting the Internet

Mercedes-AMG has priced its first dedicated electric car, the all-electric GT 4-Door Coupe, starting at €154,700 for the GT 55 and €196,350 for the GT 63 in Germany. Order books opened this week in Europe, and U.S. deliveries are expected to begin late this year. The GT 63 is the most powerful road-going Mercedes-AMG yet.…

Haye KestelooMay 28

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