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The Verge Full Article The story is written by a UK owner Excerpts: I reported the problem to Kia and my local dealer wasn’t able to initially replicate it until I was able to record the issue on my phone while charging on a fast DC charger. The car would drop to a 0kW charge rate at 82...

TechCrunch Excerpts: Uber has a long-term ambition that goes well beyond shuttling passengers: the company eventually wants to outfit its human drivers’ cars with sensors to soak up real-world data for autonomous vehicle (AV) companies — and potentially other companies training AI models on...

Article During Wednesday’s earnings call, the mercurial CEO put it as bluntly as ever. “Unfortunately, Hardware 3 — I wish it were otherwise — but Hardware 3 simply does not have the capability to achieve unsupervised FSD,” he said, saying that its “memory bandwidth” is the “chokepoint.” ...

This might just be the lamest article ever by C&D. "To Carolina squat a Rivian R1T, you need to find a steep hill and park with the rear end elevated above the front. Select "level truck" from the Camp mode menus, and over the next couple of minutes, the Rivian will do its level best to put the...

This is a very ambitious project, and there's simply no way it will be producing chips in volume in 2027. In the 80s I worked in an analog fab facility for a few years, and have 30+ years experience in factory build out and automation. This is another Musk pipe dream, no matter howe much money...

They claim they will soon be shipping this tech in an electric motorcycle. Clearly some questions and doubts exists as to whether it's real and ready for release. It appears SS Batteries still have a way to go before being viable tech in EVs. Electrek Donut Lab has released the first...

Too bad BigSky and Pamalabama were banned 😁 . Their expertise regarding FSD would have been invaluable. Motorbiscuit "Tesla reported five new crashes involving its robotaxis in Austin, Texas from December 2025 to January 2026. So, based on Tesla’s own benchmark, they are now crashing nearly...

TechCrunch - excerpts below, link to full article "WIll an EV only marketplace survive against Carvana and others? Former Rivian exec thinks so. "If you want to buy or sell a used EV right now, what’s the first step you’d take? A startup called Ever wants to be the answer to that question...

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This was posted on reddit today - a $250M Class Action letter from Morgan Stanley to shareholders. It excludes IPO purchasers. Details at RivianSecuritiesLitigation.com

Very detailed article about how important in-house Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) has become at Rivian Michigan. The following are a few excerts: Rivian's secret heroes: four members of the prototyping team dedicate their work to additive manufacturing (AM). They use resin, powder, and...

I was reading about various SC events, etc. and it got me thinking about the Rivian service loaner fleet. When the R2 ships, will Rivian transition service loaners to the R2? As an owner of the "Flagship" R1, would you expect an R1 service loaner?

i noticed cracks in my front left tire today, and further investigation shows all 4 tires have these cracks. 30k miles.This is consistent around the entire circumference of the tire. The rubber looks like it is a 6 year old aged tire. I've never seen this on any 2.5 year old tires in my entire life.

Daily Mail Another electric truck company is dead. Bollinger Motors — the Michigan EV startup once hyped for its boxy electric truck designs — has shut down operations, according to internal emails obtained by the Detroit Free Press. The company's human resources director told employees that...

IEEE Spectrum - Amazon is piloting a new four-wheel, pedal-assist electric delivery vehicle built by Also, a spin-off from electric-truck maker Rivian, in a bid to make city logistics cleaner and more efficient. The vehicle—called the TM-Q—combines the stability and cargo capacity of a small van...

More bad news for the EV industry. I didn't realize Polestar was in as bad of shape as it appears - 24 cents a share! Daily Mail "An electric carmaker is fighting to stay alive on the Nasdaq as Wall Street loses patience with the struggling EV sector. On Wednesday, Swedish automaker Polestar...

Tech Crunch Rivian has created its second spinoff company this year: an industrial AI and robotics venture called Mind Robotics. The new effort will be focused around using “industrial AI to reshape how physical world businesses operate and leverage Rivian operations data as the foundation for...

NBC - General Motors said Wednesday that it plans to lay off about 1,200 workers at its Detroit-area all-electric factory and cut 550 jobs at its Ultium battery cell facility in Ohio. GM will also temporarily lay off 850 workers at the Ohio plant and another 700 employees in Tennessee. “In...

CarScoops Rivian chief executive RJ Scaringe revealed his team recently tore down an SU7, and, likely Farley, he’s full of praise for it. However, he says that developing and building a vehicle like it in China is very different than doing the same in the US. How Good Is It? According to...

Autopian - Posting two links as a parallel to RIvian's backlog of service. If Ford has a problem hiring ICE mechanics, the problem has to be worse for RIvian. A small subset of people with an automobile mechanic skillset want to work on EVs. Also, young automotive tech school grads are being...