Have you been reading the story about my stalker, Aaron Jacob Greenspan? A quick recap for those who haven’t yet: For the past two years I’ve been dealing with a crazy stalker named Aaron Jacob Greenspan. I’ve never met him before –– he’s a creepy 40-year-old Tesla short seller who found me on Twitter and […]
Hey, remember that large legacy automaker that made flashy promises about switching entirely to electric vehicles after they got caught cheating emissions tests and poisoning customers? I wonder how that transition is going? BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen faces a fine of more than 100 million euros ($121 million) for missing EU targets on carbon dioxide […]
Cruise just closed another funding round, raising $2 billion from GM & Microsoft in a deal that also includes tech help from the Seattle software giant. GM stock jumped as the news broke on Monday January 19. General Motors Co. and Microsoft Corp. are leading a $2 billion investment round in self-driving car startup Cruise LLC in a […]
Ramping production of a new vehicle is absurdly expensive, and Rivian is learning that first hand as it pushes to bring it’s R1-T electric pick-up truck to market this year. The beloved electric vehicle startup has raised a fresh $2.65 billion in a new funding round that closed this week. Not only is Rivian working […]
It’s funny. For years, TSLA-Qanon has been assuring us that “the competition is coming”, and once it arrives legacy incumbents will wipe the floor with Tesla. Well, the competition is finally starting to arrive –– and it’s embarrassing. That’s right –– German luxury giant Mercedes-Benz has a new “urban entry model” EV, a compact SUV […]
Trevor McKendrick, Lambda School’s Chief of Staff, writes a great weekly email newsletter called “How it Actually Works”. If you’re not subscribed, you should definitely consider checking it out. This week he wrote about a book he’s been reading called “The Box”, which is about the transformative impact of shipping containers. The shipping container was […]
Oh boy. With a headline like that, you know the story’s gotta be good: ZWICKAU, Germany—Five years and nearly $50 billion into the auto industry’s biggest bet on electric vehicles, Volkswagen VOW 2.05% CEO Herbert Diess and his guest, Chancellor Angela Merkel, stood in anticipation as the first ID.3, Germany’s long-awaited answer to Tesla, rolled off the assembly line. […]
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Have you been following this Alexei Navalny story? The Russian opposition leader and blogger was nearly assassinated by Russian FSB agents late last summer, as reported in December by Belingcat. (Be sure to check out that story too, it’s something else). After tricking one of the men who tried to kill him into admitting it […]
Remember Anthony Levandowski? The Google engineer who founded Waymo (back when it was the Google Self Driving car project), and then got sued by Google after Uber bought his company? Not only did Levandowski lose his job at Uber and lose the civil case, federal prosecutors decided to press criminal charges against him as well. […]
