Drive an EV across the country using ultra-fast chargers
A drive from the nation’s capital to Los Angeles usually takes about 40 hours of pure driving — and that’s without stopping for charging breaks if you’re in an electric…
Tesla Model S touchscreen problem could affect up to 63,000 cars
Some of Tesla’s older touchscreens are blinking out. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received 11 complaints in the past year about the touchscreen in Tesla Model S cars…
RIP Segway PT: A look back at one of the goofiest vehicles ever
In 2002, Segway unleashed its own “device of the future”: the Segway PT. It wasn’t self-driving, but it was self-balancing. It was going to change personal transportation as we knew…
Pay a little more and Uber Eats will deliver faster
If you’ve ever ordered a burger on Uber Eats and impatiently watched the app tracker as your meal was submitted, processed, cooked, and finally picked up for delivery, there’s a…
Yandex switches from self-driving Prius to autonomous Hyundai Sonata
[embedded content] Yandex, the Russian Alphabet-like company with a self-driving car unit that debuted a fully driverless car in Las Vegas this year, has updated its autonomous driving program. The…
E-scooters just started to return, but Lime, Bird pull them amid protests
Electric scooters are off the streets again. First, the coronavirus outbreak prompted scooter-share companies to remove the devices in March. Just recently more of the two-wheelers were starting to be…
Waymo’s self-driving minivans will return to California streets in June
Waymo is ready to get back to the business of being on the streets of California. The Alphabet-owned company shut down a public testing program for its self-driving minivans in…
SpaceX becomes first private company to launch NASA astronauts into space
For the first time in nearly a decade, NASA launched astronauts into space from U.S. territory. And for the first time ever, it was on a spacecraft built by a…
Elon Musk rides shotgun as Jay Leno drives Tesla’s Cybertruck underground
[embedded content] In this week’s episode of Jay Leno’s Garage on CNBC, the former talkshow host chatted with Tesla CEO Elon Musk about his electric car company and snagged the…
EasyJet says hackers stole info from 9 million of its customers
British budget airline EasyJet said that hackers have accessed travel details and email addresses of 9 million of its customers, BBC News reported Tuesday. The company told the news outlet…