Amazon is aiming to put 100,000 Rivian electric trucks on the road by 2024.
Author: Timothy B. Lee
Tesla reports its first annual profit
Tesla made a $721 million profit thanks to $1.58 billion in regulatory credits.
Sidewalk-robot startup celebrates 1 million deliveries
Low speeds enabled Starship to launch its service safely and quickly.
Biden vows to electrify the federal government’s 600,000-vehicle fleet
Fewer than 0.5 percent of federal vehicles were battery electric in 2019.
Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works”
Elon Musk and John Krafcik have very different theories about driverless tech.
Trump pardons engineer Google accused of stealing secrets for Uber
Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, and others asked Trump to pardon Levandowski.
Trump team modernizes car safety regulations for the driverless era
Auto safety advocates blast the lack of new safety regulations.
Tesla’s main self-driving rival isn’t Google—it’s Intel’s Mobileye
Mobileye CEO predicts Tesla’s Autopilot strategy will hit a “glass ceiling.”
Elon Musk is the world’s richest person
Musk will earn even more Tesla stock if he hits revenue and profit targets.
My green home: $90,000 in clean tech upgrades, $20,000 in tax breaks
I bought solar panels, a heat pump, a condensing boiler, and an electric car.