Rebecca Bellan

photo of Cruise robotaxis are back – sort of image Cruise is redeploying robotaxis in Phoenix after nearly five months of paused operations, the company said in a blog post. The catch? The cars will be in so-called “manual mode,” so they won’t be driving themselves. Cruise will resume manual driving of its autonomous vehicles to create maps and gather…

Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent round of layoffs -- which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit high performers-- were

Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent layoffs -- which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit high performers -- were largely

Tesla has ended discounts on inventory across its entire electric vehicle lineup — even as sales for EVs have flagged — as part of a larger and vague plan by CEO Elon Musk to “streamline the whole Tesla sales and delivery system.” “It has become complex and inefficient,” Musk wrote in a post on X,…

Tesla has ended discounts on inventory across its entire electric vehicle lineup as part of a plan by CEO Elon Musk to "streamline" sales.

photo of Waymo begins robotaxi testing in Atlanta image Waymo, the self-driving company under Alphabet, began testing its robotaxis in Atlanta on Tuesday, adding another city to its ever-expanding testing and deployment domain. Over the next few months, Waymo will deploy a handful of cars driven manually by humans to gather mapping data and get familiar with…

photo of Uber, Nvidia-backed Serve Robotics hits public markets with $40M splash image Serve Robotics, the Uber and Nvidia-backed sidewalk robot delivery company, debuted publicly on the New York stock exchange Thursday, making it the latest startup to choose going public via a reverse merger as an alternative path to capital needed to fund growth. The company, which spun out of Uber’s…

Tesla is back in the news cycle and our crystal ball says it's one of those long-term affairs. The week began with layoffs and ended with a recall.

As Tesla gears up to report what will likely be unimpressive financial results for the first quarter on Tuesday, the company is making more moves

photo of Tesla earnings week spotlights price cuts, Elon’s ‘balls to the wall’ autonomy push image As Tesla gears up to report what will likely be unimpressive financial results for the first quarter on Tuesday, the company is making more moves to go “balls to the wall for autonomy,” as CEO Elon Musk put it last week in a post on X. Over the weekend, Tesla dropped the price of its […] © 2024…