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The deployed fleet of ultra heavy-duty trucks and mining equipment assets powered by Volvo Autonomous Solutions reached a major milestone last week, hauling their 3 millionth tonne of material out of the mines without a human driver. Volvo CE deployed its first pilot-ready autonomous hauling solutions with customers Boliden Garpenberg in Sweden and Brønnøy Kalk in Norway back 2023, with a milestone of 1 moving million tonnes (~1.1 US tons) of Earth autonomously by 2025. Sharp readers will note that it is now 2026, and Volvo has blown past the original pilot’s goal, crossing the three million ton mark at Boliden’s…
The updated electric crossover is expected to keep its predecessor’s bones while adding more buttons and better tech. Source link
Tesla’s active robotaxi fleet in Austin has fallen back to just 8 vehicles over the past seven days, according to data from community tracker Robotaxi Tracker. That’s about the same number Tesla had on the road when it launched the service in June 2025. Fifteen months of promises, and no net growth. A surge following the “launch of the Cybercab” quickly dissipated. Tesla’s “launch” spiked the numbers for about a week Tesla held a Cybercab launch event in Austin on September 3 and invited a wave of supporters and Tesla influencers to ride the steering-wheel-free vehicle. For a few days,…
Ford remains firmly committed to the Mustang, but its famous V8 engine may not be guaranteed forever. Interestingly, the manual gearbox appears to have stronger backing. Asked whether Ford would keep the V8-powered Mustang alive for as long as possible, CEO Jim Farley said, “Out of our cold, dead hands will we not have…”, before finishing with “a manual Mustang.” The choice of words is interesting. The question specifically mentioned the V8, yet Farley instead offered a strong commitment to the manual transmission without making the same promise about the engine. That doesn’t mean the V8 is disappearing anytime soon.…
Photo: Waymo Waymo is now offering a $2.85 credit to any rider who pairs their ride with public transit, expanding a pilot program it previously ran in two cities – but it’s only available for Visa users, for now. One of the great things about living in a city is that you can get around without a car. Higher housing density makes public transit possible, which then serves as a cheap way to move lots of people quickly. But, every once in a while, you’ll still need some other solution to get where you’re going – especially in American cities…
Tesla’s newest Full Self-Driving update, v14.3.9, is telling owners their cameras are dirty when they aren’t — and sending them to service to fix a problem that doesn’t exist. Tesla has confirmed the bug and is canceling the service appointments it triggered. A fix is expected in a coming update. The alert owners are seeing Drivers who installed v14.3.9 started getting a message on the center screen: “Poor camera visibility detected. Interior windshield residue cleaning is required.” The cameras are clean. The alert fires anyway, often in bright sun or glare, with the software reading normal optical conditions as an…
Tesla has taken another concrete step toward owning its battery supply chain, and it’s doing so with what is perhaps the most important vehicle in its short-but-storied history. On September 23, Tesla announced that it has officially built the first Cybercab with cathode material produced in-house at the company’s first cathode plant in the U.S., and the first in the U.S. overall. First Cybercab made using our in-house cathode material – from the first cathode plant in the Americas pic.twitter.com/X95aVXsT9H — Robotaxi (@robotaxi) September 23, 2026 Active cathode material is the most expensive piece of a lithium-ion battery cell, and…
Generally, you can expect to visit a garage every two years or 18,000 miles, with an oil and filter change priced at around £340, discounted to £240 once the car is three years old. Fresh brake fluid is required after three years and then every two years, at £130 or so (discounted to £100). Advertisement – Article continues belowThe iX2 doesn’t cost much less to maintain; even a minor service is around £200. X2 sDrive20i cars are in insurance group 25; the M35i is in group 34, while the iX2 is in group 31 (eDrive20) and 38-39 (xDrive30). All X2s…
Volkswagen’s new family of entry-level electric cars is proving to be more popular than its internal combustion engine vehicles. Volkswagen’s EV orders surpass ICE vehicles at home Volkswagen suddenly has a new problem on its hands — demand for its new EVs has risen noticeably, while, at the same time, gas- and diesel-powered vehicles are falling out of favor across Europe and other markets. In Germany, Volkswagen’s home market and the heart of the European auto industry, orders for pure electric cars now exceed those of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. According to German auto news outlet Automobilwoche, Volkswagen is…
Gas prices have risen from $2.98 to $4.49 since February 2026. Covering 1,000 miles in a 30 mpg Mazda 3 sedan now costs $150. That same money would run a 19 mpg Mustang seven months ago. We’ve all laughed at decades-old pictures and movies showing how cheap gas was when our parents were our age, conveniently forgetting the effects of inflation. But looking at pictures from February now gives us the same sensation, and inflation hardly comes in to it.Gas prices vary wildly across the US, but as I write this a gallon of regular averages out at $4.49, according…