Waymo recalled nearly 4,000 robotaxis on 18 June 2026 after at least 13 of its vehicles drove into closed highway construction zones. It is the sixth recall in the company's history, and the latest sign that the industry's hardest problems are the boring ones.
Geely Holding subsidiaries signed a definitive agreement on Monday to take 30% of Nio Power, valuing the battery swap and charging unit at about RMB16 billion ($2.4 billion), according to Nio's Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing reported by CnEVPost.
Waymo has recalled nearly 4,000 robotaxis to keep them off highways after at least 13 incidents in which its vehicles drove into closed construction zones. It is the company's sixth recall.
Mazda added a LiDAR suite to its CX-6e on 27 September, giving the China-built electric SUV "advanced L2" autonomy and automated parking, as Volkswagen was reported the same day to be weighing an exit from its Moia robotaxi unit.
Waymo has paused robotaxi service in four cities after its vehicles kept driving into flooded roads, with one car stuck in Atlanta for about an hour, according to filings and local reports.
Waymo has paused robotaxi service in four cities after one of its vehicles drove into a flooded Atlanta street and got stuck for about an hour, per TechCrunch, a week after the company issued a software recall it admitted was not a final fix.
Volvo Autonomous Solutions said last week that its driverless haul fleet crossed 3 million tonnes of material moved, with the milestone logged at Boliden's Garpenberg mine in Sweden, according to Electrek. The same week, a Cox Automotive study found robotaxi awareness at 70% nationally in the US but actual usage at just 18%.
Volkswagen is weighing an exit from its Moia robotaxi business as soon as the end of 2026, according to a Wirtschaftswoche report cited by heise online on 27 September, the same weekend Waymo put its robotaxi count at 14 cities.
Mazda added a LiDAR suite to its CX-6e electric SUV on 27 September, giving the Changan-built model what the company calls advanced L2 autonomy. A separate industry argument published a day earlier says the real robotaxi bottleneck is not software but servicing.
Waymo recalled nearly 4,000 robotaxis on 18 June 2026 to stop them entering highway construction zones. It is the sixth recall for a company that says its cars have driven more than 170 million autonomous miles.
Buyers of used electric cars increasingly ask one question before anything else: how healthy is the battery? The data available so far suggests the answer is usually better than the early scare stories implied, though the way that health is measured is still far from standardised.
Used electric cars are now judged on a number that did not exist a decade ago: battery state of health, or SOH. New data from auction and research firms suggests those batteries are holding up better than buyers fear, while independent testing firms are turning that number into a business.
Battery analytics firms and auction data are starting to give used EV buyers hard numbers on state of health, but the reports disagree with each other and the standards are missing.
Waymo paused service in four cities after robotaxis drove into flooded roads. It is the latest in a run of recalls and investigations that show how far the industry still is from solving rare edge cases.
Used electric car buyers now fixate on a single number: the battery's state of health. Analytics firms and auction data say that number is more useful than the old 80% rule suggests, but the way it is produced is not standardised.
Tesla's robotaxi service launched in Austin on 22 June with a handful of cameras and no lidar. Within days, riders had posted videos of speeding, wrong-lane driving and sudden braking. The autonomous driving experts Business Insider asked to review the footage were not impressed.
Laos suspended imports of new petrol and diesel passenger cars on 1 June 2026, a measure Electrek calls the most aggressive EV mandate on the planet. The policy has almost nothing to do with consumer demand and everything to do with a fuel bill paid in scarce foreign currency.
Waymo has recalled nearly 4,000 robotaxis after at least 13 drove into closed highway construction zones, the sixth recall for a company that has operated autonomous vehicles for a decade. Tesla's robotaxi, launched in Austin on June 22, has drawn expert criticism over its camera-only design.