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Tesla Cancels the Cybertruck in Australia and New Zealand, Seven Years After Taking Deposits
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Transportation,
Seven years is a long time to hold a place in line. That is roughly how long some Australians and New Zealanders have had a deposit sitting with Tesla waiting on a Cybertruck. This week Tesla emailed them to say it is not coming.
The email is short and flat. Tesla's "plans to produce Cybertruck" for those two countries "have been discontinued." Deposits get refunded within 30 days, counted from when a customer receives a follow-up email confirming their details. Tesla also has a suggestion for anyone still in a buying mood. Order a new Model 3 or Model Y and you get a year of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) at no cost.
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Jaguar’s Type 01 Is Real. Nobody Agrees on What It Costs in the US.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Design, Transportation,
Jaguar spent nearly two years as a car company you could argue about but not buy a car from. That ended at a world premiere in New York on October 7, where the Type 01 turned up as a finished production car with a factory, a build date, and prices in at least two currencies. It is a four-door electric grand tourer, and it is the first Jaguar you will be able to order since the company tore its own brand down and started again.
The hardware is serious. Three motors make a combined 758 kW and 1,365 Nm of torque, which other outlets have converted to roughly 1,015 hp, and the reported 0 to 62 mph time is about 3.2 seconds. Jaguar also built the car around its own 850-volt architecture, so it takes up to 350 kW on a DC charger. The company says that puts about 320 km of range back in 13 minutes. On a long drive, that is the difference between a coffee stop and a meal.
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Lucid Delivered 3,806 Cars Last Quarter. It Only Built 2,954.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Transportation,
Lucid delivered more cars than it built last quarter. That is a first in the company's history, and it was the plan.
Lucid's own release puts it at 3,806 vehicles delivered in the third quarter of 2026 and 2,954 built. Deliveries are down about 7% from the 4,078 Lucid handed over a year earlier, and they came in below analyst delivery estimates. Production dropped 38% from the 4,774 cars Lucid built in the second quarter, the company's lowest quarterly output since early 2025.
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The Department of War Will Pay Up to $75 Million to Turn an EV Battery Line Into Drone Cells. Only $22 Million Is Funded.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Misc. Tech, Transportation,
An American factory built to make batteries for electric cars is about to start making them for military drones instead. Amprius Technologies landed a grant of up to $75 million from the US Department of War to do it. Only about $22 million of that has actually been obligated.
Amprius makes silicon anode lithium-ion cells, the kind pitched for years at EVs and electric aviation because they pack more energy into less weight. On September 28 the company said it will retrofit an existing US production line, currently run by what it calls a major South Korean manufacturer, to build 12 million of its cells a year for small and midsize drones. The target is early 2028.
Nissan’s Pixo Is a 161-Mile Electric City Car. It Is Not Coming to the US.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Transportation,
Nissan revived the Pixo name on September 23, and you cannot buy one. The Pixo is a European car. It is built in Slovenia, it is sold in Europe, and it is not scheduled for the United States at all.
What Europe gets is a small electric hatchback with a 27.5 kWh lithium iron phosphate battery and 259 km of WLTP range, which is 161 miles. Nissan says customer deliveries begin in early 2027. It has not said what the car costs. Market pricing arrives from December 2026 onward, and the under-20,000-euro figure being quoted today (roughly $23,000 before incentives) is an expectation, not a number Nissan has announced.
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Bentley’s First EV Charges to 80 Percent in 16 Minutes. It Also Pipes In Fake Engine Noise.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Design, Transportation,
A lot of what you paid for in a Bentley was sound. The big engine clearing its throat outside a restaurant did real work for the sticker price. The Torcal, Bentley's first electric car, revealed in London today, has none of that. So Bentley composed some and named it Bentley Dynamic Symphony.
The car under the soundtrack is serious. It's a five-meter SUV, designed, engineered and built in Crewe, with two permanent magnet motors driving all four wheels. That's 821 PS in the standard car and 888 in the S, good for 0 to 60 mph in 3.3 seconds, or 2.8 if you buy the S. Top speed is 155 mph, or 162 in the S. Those are the numbers Bentley led with. The one it left out is the price.
Joby’s Plane Flew 3,199 Miles Across America. Its Pilot Never Touched a Thing.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Transportation, Artificial Intelligence,
A Cessna Caravan lifted off from Buchanan Field in Concord, California, flew 3,199 miles, and landed at a small county airport on North Carolina's Outer Banks. There was a pilot sitting up front the whole way. Joby Aviation says that pilot never touched a control.
The plane is a converted Caravan that Joby calls the J208, and the company says it handled its own taxiing, takeoffs, route navigation and landings for the entire trip. Humans supervised it remotely from Joby's autonomy headquarters in California and from Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, at distances of up to 2,323 miles. Joby is calling it the first fully autonomous flight across the United States, and it is being loud about what it wants to do next.
Laser Strikes on Aircraft Fell 24% This Year, and the FAA Says It Knows Why
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Science, Transportation,
That photo is what a laser strike looks like from the left seat. The whole windscreen washed green, the runway lights behind it barely readable, and a pilot on final approach whose night vision has gone. The FAA published that image. On Thursday it published better news to go with it.
Pilots have reported 4,470 laser strikes to the agency so far in 2026, a 24 percent drop from this time last year and the third annual decline in a row. The all-time high was 13,304 in 2023. Then 12,840 in 2024, then 10,993 in 2025, and now a year running well below that pace.
Lucid and Bolt Want 25,000 Robotaxis in Europe. Lucid Built 18,378 Cars All Last Year.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Transportation, Artificial Intelligence,
Bolt wants at least 25,000 driverless Lucid cars working European streets. Lucid built 18,378 cars in all of 2025: every model, every market, every customer on earth combined.
That is the deal the two companies announced Thursday morning. Lucid's stock went up on it.
GM Brings CarPlay Back to Its Trucks, and This Time It Shares the Screen
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Google, Transportation,
Three years ago GM decided it was done with phone projection. Today it announced the opposite. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are coming back to its cars, though they no longer get the whole screen.
The new interface debuts on the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500, with other GM models to follow. CarPlay and Android Auto now run in a window alongside GM's own software, so the map, the trailering readouts and the truck's settings stay visible while your phone's apps do their thing next to them.
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