Last month, a Mercedes Benz EQE 350 electric vehicle caught fire in a South Korean apartment building’s underground parking garage. Reportedly, 23 people were sent to the hospital and approximately 900 cars were damaged. The fire reached temperatures of more than 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit (1,500 degrees Celsius), and took firefighters …
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Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) package might finally be making its way to Europe and China, but there’s a big hurdle Tesla needs to overcome first. On Thursday, Tesla’s official AI account on X tweeted a roadmap for the company’s AI team, mostly consisting on various autonomous driving features for Tesla …
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Tesla issuing a recall for just over 9,000 cars is hardly a surprise these days, given that the company has recalled millions of cars over the years, including a recall for 1.8 million cars just weeks ago. However, while most of Tesla recalls are for issues that can be fixed …
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WIRED has been writing about Elon Musk—he of the electric cars, space rockets, tunnel-boring machines, implantable brain interfaces, Mars mission, and internet shitposting—for a long time. He’s always been unpredictable. And yet the most shocking part of his two-hour interview with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, broadcast live on X …
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The United Auto Workers union, which represents some 400,000 workers in the automobile, aerospace, and agriculture industries, on Tuesday said that it filed federal labor charges against Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The charges follow what the UAW describes as “attempts to threaten and intimidate workers” that arose during a …
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Tesla has issued a recall for 1.8 million cars in the United States, one of the largest recalls in the company’s history. The issue has to do with the cars’ software failing to detect an unlatched hood, Reuters reported on Tuesday. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), …
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August is out, October is in. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has set a new date for the company’s big Robotaxi reveal: October 10. During an earnings call Tuesday, Musk said that moving the event back a few months allowed the company to “improve the Robotaxi, as well as add in …
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The people of San Francisco haven’t always been kind to Waymo’s growing fleet of driverless taxis. The autonomous vehicles, which provide tens of thousands of rides each week, have been torched, stomped on, and verbally berated in recent months. Now Waymo is striking back—in the courts. This month, the Silicon …
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Surprise, surprise. Tesla is in the news again. Yes, partly because Tesla has delayed its promised robotaxi program. And yes, the company’s stock price has continued to plummet as its share of the US EV market drops below 50 percent. And yeah, the Cybertruck looks very silly. But forget all …
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A few months ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised a Tesla Robotaxi unveiling in August. Now, a new report by Bloomberg claims it’s not happening. According to the report, the launch event has been moved to October to give the teams working on Robotaxis more time to build additional prototypes. …
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