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Waymo opened its driverless ride-hailing service to the general public in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa on Monday, bringing the Alphabet-owned company to 14 US cities. Tens of thousands of people in each market had already signed up before the doors opened, and Waymo says it will let them in gradually over the coming weeks. From waitlist to public in under two months This isn’t the first time these three cities have shown up in a Waymo announcement. We reported in July that Waymo had flipped Las Vegas to fully driverless and lined up Denver, San Diego, and Tampa as…
Ram is giving its 2027 Chassis Cab lineup a new Night Edition package with blacked-out styling as a factory-customized look. The package is available on 3500, 4500, and 5500 Chassis Cab models in Regular Cab and Crew Cab configurations. The Night Edition costs $1,695 on Laramie models and $2,195 on Big Horn models, with orders opening in Q4 2026. The Ram Chassis Cab is joining the dark side for the 2027 model year because apparently even work trucks want to look cool. Ram is giving its heavy-duty commercial pickup a new Night Edition package that replaces the usual flashy brightwork with…
Tesla reports its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” crashes to the federal government, as it’s required to — and then blacks out almost everything in those reports, so the public never learns what happened in those crashes. Tesla always end up blaming the driver. We’re matching those redacted reports, one by one, to real fatal crashes that were covered in the news as ordinary accidents. This is a running investigation, and we’ll add each crash we confirm to this page. You can view this as an investigative hub keeping track of our ongoing investigation. What the data shows Under a 2021…
Despite looking like it deserves a place in Volvo’s Gothenburg Museum, today’s Nice Price or No Dice V70 XC hides a heart-wrenching secret: it has a rebuilt title. Would that impact your interest in its price despite its otherwise phenomenal presentation? Introduced in 1933, the BMW 303 represented two milestones for the Bavarian automaker. Notably, the 303 was BMW’s first six-cylinder production car, offering an inline engine layout that would become one of the brand’s hallmarks decades later. The model also introduced another hallmark that has graced nearly every single model since, the iconic twin-kidney grille. The 2005 BMW 320i…
A 43-year-old man died when his Tesla Model 3, stopped in a live lane of Interstate 4, was rear-ended by a semi. Florida troopers said they couldn’t explain why the car was stopped in the middle of the highway. Tesla’s own data can explain it, the car’s driver-assist system was engaged, but the company has sealed it. This is part of an ongoing Electrek series where we match unexplained fatal crashes with Tesla’s own redacted data on ADAS crashes. What happened on I-4 Around 9:25 p.m. on October 6, 2025, a 2020 Tesla Model 3 was stopped in the center…
Weeks after a Tesla Model 3 sat stopped in a live Florida interstate lane and its driver was killed, it happened again — a 2020 Model 3, stopped dead on a Phoenix-area freeway at 3 a.m., rear-ended by a pickup, its driver dead at the scene. And as in the Florida case that we revealed today, no one investigating knew what Tesla’s own data shows: the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek series matching previously reported Tesla crashes to the company’s own redacted NHTSA data. What happened on Loop 202 Just after 3 a.m.…
With three electric motors delivering over 1,500 horsepower, the Denza Z can sprint from 0 to 62 mph in under 2 seconds. It can beat a Lamborghini in a race, and it’s cheaper than a Porsche 911 Turbo S. BYD’s new Denza Z beats Porsche on speed and price Denza is going on the offensive in Europe, where it will go head-to-head with premium automakers like Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and BMW. BYD opened orders for the Denza Z at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last month, starting at £142,900 ($193,000) in the UK. The Denza Z is “the world’s first…
Porsche has been working on a new 911 GT3 equipped with a ducktail spoiler. It is expected to be called the 911 GT3 Bergsport and will be unveiled on September 1. The guys at Carbonwurks have beaten Porsche to it, though. They’ve already built a 911 GT3 with a ducktail spoiler and recently shared a video showcasing the entire installation process, which looks pretty straightforward. The bespoke wing created by Carbonwurks is made from carbon fibre. It is painted to match the car’s exterior, while the carbon fibre is visible on the inner section. It even has an inbuilt LED…
UPDATE: The number has now been updated to 45 units, up from 7! Here we go! Tesla has just added another 38 Cybercabs to its Robotaxi fleet, bringing the total up to 45, according to the Texas DMV. Robots on robots on robots! This Thursday’s launch event is gonna be awesome🤖🤖🤖 pic.twitter.com/3HF24rHK4T — Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) August 31, 2026 Tesla is bolstering its Cybercab fleet with the State of Texas’s regulatory bodies ahead of the planned launch of the all-electric ride-hailing vehicle this Thursday. Seven purpose-built Tesla Cybercabs have been added to Texas’s official automated vehicle registry, appearing in the…
Photo: rPlus Energies The US battery storage market just posted its biggest quarter ever, adding 20.2 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of new capacity in Q2 2026. The record quarter brought total battery storage installations for the first half of 2026 to 30.8 GWh – up 23% year over year – according to the new “US Energy Storage Market Outlook” from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Utility-scale batteries drove the record Nearly all the growth came from large grid batteries. Utility-scale projects accounted for about 18 GWh of Q2 installations, supported by seven gigawatt-hour-scale projects – four in…