Tesla Posts Another Profit as Musk Slams Virus Restrictions
Tesla on Wednesday reported its third consecutive quarterly profit, defying the projections of analysts who had expected the Covid-19 pandemic to drive the electric...
Jaguar Envisions Car Design for a Post-Pandemic World
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Planes Are Still Flying, but Covid-19 Recovery Will Be Tough
Over the past three months, Covid-19 has reduced air travel in the United States to the point where the fact of a nearly full...
Elon Musk Says Tesla Stock Is ‘Too High’—and It Quickly Falls
He’s at it again.
Launching a Friday morning tweet-tear, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote, “Tesla stock price is too high imo .” Ask,...
Fewer Wrecks, Grounded Planes, and More Car News This Week
Even in the midst of a pandemic, never doubt the world’s ability to surprise. This week, we tracked some remarkable trends. Serious crashes are,...
Covid-19 Spurs a Road Repair Boom—and Threatens a Bust
Until a few weeks ago, the California Department of Transportation was girding itself for a summer disaster. Come July, it was planning to shut...
Sleeker Lidar Moves Volvo Closer to Selling a Self-Driving Car
If any automaker has made its name synonymous with safety, it’s Volvo. The Swedish outfit’s marketing department deserves some credit there, for sure, but...
As Cities Reopen, Outdoor Dining May Provide a Lifeline
The virus can be spread from droplets that an infected person coughs or sneezes, but researchers still aren’t sure how infectious those droplets are....
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs Scraps Its Ambitious Toronto Project
When Google sibling Sidewalk Labs announced in 2017 a $50 million investment into a project to redevelop a portion of Toronto’s waterfront, it seemed...
Covid-19 Casts a Dark Cloud Over the Flying Car Future
The electric air taxi business—spurred along for years by Uber’s Elevate initiative and also known as flying cars—is flying into a cloudy unknown: The...
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