Not long after buying a Tesla Model 3 this summer, Vince Patton saw a YouTube clip highlighting a feature that took him by surprise: three video games that can be played on the large touch screen mounted in front of the dashboard — while driving down the road. “I thought surely that can’t be right,”… Continue reading A New Tesla Safety Concern: Drivers Can Play Video Games in Moving Cars
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Inside Tesla: How Elon Musk Pushed His Vision for Autopilot
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Elon Musk built his electric car company, Tesla, around the promise that it represented the future of driving — a phrase emblazoned on the automaker’s website. Much of that promise was centered on Autopilot, a system of… Continue reading Inside Tesla: How Elon Musk Pushed His Vision for Autopilot
An Auto Show for the Raddest Cars of the ’80s and ’90s
Everything was awesome. The music was fresh, the movies were dope and the hair was big. The cars? Rad, then and now. Maybe especially now. In the 1980s and ’90s, cars were boxy and far-out, futuristic and often a bit funky. Then came a new millennium and the internet era, and the previous two decades… Continue reading An Auto Show for the Raddest Cars of the ’80s and ’90s
Tesla Agrees to Stop Letting Drivers Play Video Games in Moving Cars
Tesla has agreed to modify software in its cars to prevent drivers and passengers from playing video games on the dashboard screens while a vehicle is in motion, a federal safety regulator said on Thursday. The agreement comes a day after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a formal investigation of the game feature,… Continue reading Tesla Agrees to Stop Letting Drivers Play Video Games in Moving Cars
Supply Chain Problems Mean Buying a Car Sometimes Takes a Plane Ride
When Rachael Kasper started shopping for a new car in August, she had her heart set on a Ford Escape plug-in hybrid. The problem was that Ford hasn’t made many of them this year because of a computer chip shortage that has slowed auto production around the world. Ms. Kasper first came up empty in… Continue reading Supply Chain Problems Mean Buying a Car Sometimes Takes a Plane Ride
G.M. Says Dan Ammann, C.E.O of Driverless Unit Cruise, Is Leaving
The high-profile head of Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous-driving unit, is leaving the company, the carmaker said Thursday. The executive, Dan Ammann, a former investment banker who is from New Zealand, gave up his job as G.M.’s president to take over Cruise at the beginning of 2019. Since then, expectations for autonomous driving have cooled as… Continue reading G.M. Says Dan Ammann, C.E.O of Driverless Unit Cruise, Is Leaving
A Hot Rod Before Its Time: Ford’s Model A, With a Boost
Dominic Palazzolo occasionally shows up at car shows and cruise-ins, but he’s far from a typical enthusiast. The hopped-up 1930 Ford Model A he drives is a “gow job,” a hot rod from before the term “hot rod” was coined: a car built almost exclusively with 1930s mechanical components, yet capable of besting a lot… Continue reading A Hot Rod Before Its Time: Ford’s Model A, With a Boost
He Helped Build Tesla. Now He Hopes to Do the Same at Lucid.
But mass producing automobiles is a challenge of a different magnitude. Initial versions of the Air cost almost $35,000 more than a top-of-the-line Tesla Model S Plaid. To be profitable, Lucid must appeal to more than just a superwealthy elite. “Lucid’s biggest risks are getting to scale and capacity,” said Daniel Ives, a senior analyst… Continue reading He Helped Build Tesla. Now He Hopes to Do the Same at Lucid.
JPMorgan says Tesla owes it $162 million because of an Elon Musk tweet.
Elon Musk’s Twitter post about taking Tesla private is still dogging him, more than three years later. On Monday, JPMorgan Chase sued Tesla in federal court, seeking $162 million that the bank says the electric automaker owes it under a stock options contract the companies signed in 2014. At the heart of the dispute is… Continue reading JPMorgan says Tesla owes it $162 million because of an Elon Musk tweet.
Rivian, an E.V. maker with big ambitions but few sales, will build a new factory in Georgia.
Rivian Automotive, an electric vehicle company that had an initial public offering last month, said on Thursday that it planned to spend $5 billion to build its second factory, in Georgia. The announcement, which came on the same day that Rivian said it lost $1.2 billion in the three months ending in September, was the… Continue reading Rivian, an E.V. maker with big ambitions but few sales, will build a new factory in Georgia.