Harri Weber
Tesla’s lowest-priced vehicle, the rear-wheel-drive Model 3, won’t be eligible for the full $7,500 federal tax credit as of next year.
Tesla started warning buyers (and window-shoppers) on Monday that the Inflation Reduction Act credit for its cheapest Model 3, as well as the long-range variant, will drop to $3,750...
After keeping some key specs close to its proverbial chest, Tesla is finally sharing more details about the final production versions of the Cybertruck electric pickup.
Tesla published battery, speed and other stats during its delivery event on Thursday, during which the automaker went out of the way to compare...
Bad news: If you had your heart set on a sub-$40,000 Cybertruck, it ain’t coming next year, if ever.
Though Tesla plans to ramp up production of its electric pickup in 2024, the company clarified today after its splashy delivery event that the cheapest Cybertruck variant will be available in...
“When is a bot a person?,” my colleague Kirsten asked after I learned that Polestar’s climate bot is more human than machine.
Polestar launched its “Truth Bot” on X (formerly Twitter) ahead of COP28, the UN climate conference overseen by an oil executive. The Truth Bot replies to misleading tweets...
Teenage Engineering’s new $300 groovebox has no business being this cute. That’s the whole point.
The EP–133 K.O.II (we’ll just call it Knock Out II) is a combination drum machine, synthesizer and sampler. It’s a supersized upgrade to Teenage Engineer’s pint-sized PO-33 K.O, which offers many of the same features for...
The 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show is a wrap — for press, anyway. That means it’s time to recap the big launches, strange details, cars on display and peculiar absences we noticed this year.
The highlights include the SUV that’ll make or break Lucid, Amazon’s auto fixation, a pickup that...
EV maker Lucid took the long-awaited wraps off the Gravity, an all-electric three-row SUV with a range that could hypothetically leave a Tesla Model X, Fisker Ocean or Rivian R1S stuck behind at a charging station.
The importance of the Lucid Gravity — and more aptly the reception it receives...
Tesla seems to be walking back the punitive limits it placed on buyers of its yet-to-be-released Cybertrucks.
As recently as yesterday, a Tesla US order agreement page included a threat to sue Cybertruck buyers who resell the vehicle without permission during their first year of ownership. That language is no...
Welcome to the future, where your car is a computer and a “fat finger” can grind your tunes to a halt.
On Monday, Rivian put out — then abruptly cancelled — an over-the-air software update that promised bugfixes and improvements to a feature called proximity locking. Instead, the update screwed...
Fossil fuel giant Exxon is betting its U.S. lithium operation will power a new generation of electric cars.
The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of tons of “recoverable” lithium, which could go to use in batteries for cars, handhelds and renewable energy storage, a 2021 U.S. Geological Survey said. Yet,...
