The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab, which lacks a steering wheel and pedals, meets vehicle safety standards.

An invite-only event in Austin, Texas, kept online fans in the dark for hours.

The electric-auto maker will officially debut its steering-wheel-free robotaxi on Thursday. But building the vehicle is the easy part.

“It never crossed my mind that they would be so bold as to sell our private data for AI,” says one former Spirit Airlines flight attendant.

A Chinese agency says the two recalls affecting some 3 million vehicles can mostly be fixed by over-the-air updates—but they will also require physical warning stickers and camera-related updates.

Experts allege that two recent incidents in California show the extreme lengths that criminal organizations are willing to go to to steal servers and other gear meant for data centers.

The temporary exemption from federal safety standards will let Amazon’s Zoox launch a real, paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas.

Gas prices are up, and US car dealerships are full of hybrids. Customers are going for it.

Several Chinese businesses associated with the ebike brand Aipas settled a lawsuit with Amazon and the safety certification company UL in July.

A Tesla representative at a DC hearing said the vehicle is “an active product being built.” But its timeline isn’t clear.

In at least two places, Uber has pushed a policy that could give it an advantage over developers of self-driving cars. The company says it’s fighting monopolies.

NHTSA administrator Jonathan Morrison called reports that self-driving cars had driven into emergency scenes and blocked ambulances and firefighters “unacceptable.”

A key delay from a state agency means robotaxi rides in the company’s new Ojai vehicle might be free for a few more months.

Dealers who invested in Polestar won’t be able to sell in the US next year after the federal government denied an authorization that would have allowed the company to avoid a Chinese tech ban.

Slate is the latest automaker to transition to lower-cost batteries perfected in China, driven in part by the repeal of EV tax credits that required materials to be sourced domestically.

Did Full Self-Driving (Supervised), Tesla’s driver assistance feature, play a role in a woman’s death?

Even if peace holds up between the US and Iran, oil prices aren’t going back down to where they were any time soon.

It might not feel all that different from older World Cups—for better or worse.

The automaker today is turning on vehicle-to-grid charging for its GM Energy customers. Will people actually use it?

The pale-blue Ojai vehicles will start picking up members of the public in California and Arizona in the next few weeks.

The company is mapping Alexandria and, soon, Arlington—right across from the power center of Washington, DC.

After the Trump administration turned away from electrification, two of the nation’s biggest governments will advocate for more electric vans, police cars, and eventually, snowplows.

Ford and GM are backing away from electric vehicles and moving into the battery storage business. And it all comes back to AI.

Remote operators (slowly) drove the automaker’s autonomous vehicles into a metal fence and a construction barricade, Tesla says.

A new collaboration with Alphabet’s Wing will only deliver sandwiches. It demonstrates the tricky parts of taking to the sky.

One of the country’s busiest airspaces has a new kind of flying machine—maybe temporarily.

The news isn’t good.

As adult riders report new age-verification checks, the self-driving car company says it’s continuing to “refine” its system in places where kids aren’t allowed to ride alone.

“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.

It’s an expensive time to fly. These tips can help lighten the load on your wallet.

Marine insurers and oil traders want to know what’s going on in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As the volume of disappearing ships in the area increases, analysts are getting creative.

Dealerships say they’re getting busier as the Iran war and the shipping crisis at the Strait of Hormuz drag on.

The electric-car maker says it happens rarely and at speeds below 10 mph. But the disclosure—in response to a US senator's questions—occasioned a call for more transparency.

The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings.

As Washington wrangles over the future of federal employees’ pay, here are some ideas for passing the time.

“ICE are here and they’re doing literally nothing to help,” said an airline worker in New York.

A six-year EV rollout ends with a thud.

With the Iran war doubling oil prices, experts say the airline industry’s belt-tightening is an economic canary in the coal mine for the rest of the world.

The Chinese automaker is racing ahead of global competitors—but don’t expect to see those gains in the US anytime soon.

Airline ticket prices are already rising, but an extended crisis in Iran could have bigger effects on the global travel industry.

The Strait of Hormuz, a busy waterway off the coast of Iran, has come to a near standstill. If the war drags on much longer, it could mean higher prices for consumer goods around the world.

The federal government announced a new pilot program designed to get new kinds of ultralight vehicles and “eVTOLs” up and running around the country—even if they're not fully FAA-certified.

Cities want to stop kids from getting hurt. A lawmaker thinks warning them away from legal gray-area “e-motos” could help.

Fisker went out of business in 2024, but its biggest fans want to bring the “right to repair” to the masses.

Despite Friday’s SCOTUS ruling, many tariffs affecting the auto industry will remain. So will the other dynamics that have led to today’s historically high car prices.

Self-driving-vehicle companies are revealing new details about their safety-critical “remote assistance” programs—but questions remain.

Pose your questions to a panel of WIRED experts about the future of the electric vehicle industry.

Stuck in regulatory limbo, the self-driving-vehicle developer is encouraging residents of Washington, DC, to message public officials to help get its robotaxis onto roads.

The company’s robotaxi service is supposed to launch in the US capital this year. But while service rollouts have been relatively smooth in other cities, DC’s rules have made things tricky.