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Rowan Calder

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Electric Vehicles

Uber is sinking up to $1.25 billion into Rivian to put 50,000 self-driving R2s on the road, with the first 10,000 headed to San Francisco and Miami

June 5, 2026

Trucks

Gatik became the first company in North America running fully driverless trucks at scale, completing 60,000 commercial deliveries with no human aboard

June 5, 2026

SUV’s

Nuro just won a California permit to run driverless Lucid Gravity SUVs with no safety driver, clearing the way for Uber robotaxis in Waymo’s home city this year

June 5, 2026

Electric Vehicles

Tesla logged five fresh robotaxi collisions across December and January, pushing its driverless Austin fleet to 14 incidents since the service launched

June 5, 2026

Trucks

Aurora Innovation validated a 1,000-mile driverless lane from Fort Worth to Phoenix, a haul longer than a single human trucker can legally drive in a day

June 5, 2026

Watercraft

Louisiana boatbuilder Metal Shark debuted Frenzy, a low-cost amphibious robotic boat that hauls payloads on its own with no crew

June 5, 2026

Electric Vehicles

Electric cars are getting major range jumps for 2026, with the Lucid Gravity hitting 450 miles and the Rivian R1S reaching 410 on a charge

June 5, 2026

Electric Vehicles

Tesla’s driverless robotaxis have now logged 14 crashes since launch, even as Uber bets up to $1.25 billion on putting 50,000 Rivian R2s on the road

June 5, 2026

Transportation

Uber plans to roll out Lucid-Nuro robotaxis in San Francisco later this year, taking aim at Waymo right in its home market

June 5, 2026

Electric Vehicles

Tesla built 408,000 vehicles this quarter but only delivered 358,023 — a roughly 50,000-unit inventory swing for a build-to-order company

June 4, 2026

SUV’s

Rivian starts sending final R2 SUV order invitations on June 9, with first deliveries expected two to six weeks later

June 4, 2026

Electric Vehicles

Rivian’s R2 may have just matched the Tesla Model Y dead-on for energy efficiency, ending Tesla’s years-long lead in that metric

June 4, 2026

Electric Vehicles

The 2026 Hummer EV Pickup 3X starts at $105,300 with a tri-motor 830-horsepower setup and up to 363 miles of range

June 4, 2026

SUV’s

Rivian projects a 53% jump in 2026 deliveries on the back of the lower-priced R2 SUV rollout

June 3, 2026

Aircraft

Boeing’s MQ-28 collaborative combat aircraft just validated a new capability on June 1, edging the program closer to fielding

June 3, 2026

Electric Vehicles

GM’s combined truck and EV total of 204,425 deliveries put it ahead of Ford in Q1, even with Silverado at 127,412

June 3, 2026

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