Uber Squeezed Europe’s Taxi Drivers. Now It Wants to Hire Them
Drivers like Hubert might be skeptical of Uber’s deals, but within some unions there is real hostility toward the company. “We don’t expect anything from Uber....
GM’s Cruise Recalls Self-Driving Software Involved in June Crash
Autonomous driving company Cruise and US regulators said today that the General Motors subsidiary had recalled software deployed on 80 vehicles after two people were injured...
Driving Toward the Automobile’s Electric, Autonomous Future
It’s a heady time to be a car executive. Lawmakers worldwide are pushing the auto industry to electrify, and fast. US companies are under pressure to...
The Climate Bill Will Electrify More Delivery Vans and Trucks
When it comes to the electrified future of transportation, passenger vehicles get all the love. Automakers are eager to sell you their latest and greatest muscled...
The Case for Making Public Transit Free Everywhere
Free fares also remove the financial cost of creating ticketing systems and enforcing them. In Boston, an extension of a free fare trial was in part...
EV Makers Think They’ve Figured Out What Women Want
In countries like Norway, EVs are expensive, and that means families often have the budget for just one car, says Sovacool, whose research shows that men...
The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium
Lithium projects outside China have been at the mercy of the markets, slowing and expanding as the price of lithium ebbs and flows. But domestic investment...
China Is Racing to Electrify Its Future
“China has gone from having virtually no electric vehicles to having almost half of the world’s stock of passenger electric vehicles, and far more of that...
The Rise and Precarious Reign of China’s Battery King
The headquarters of battery giant CATL tower over the coastal Chinese city of Ningde. To the untrained eye, the building resembles a huge slide rising out...
China Built Your iPhone. Will It Build Your Next Car?
On the face of it, Foxconn seems well placed to start making cars. But there are important challenges to overcome. Foxconn’s expertise lies in harnessing human...