Looking back at 2025 in charts
2025 was a busy year for news. What with whipsawing tariffs , booming AI data centers , driverless taxis , flying cars , weight-loss drugs , and billionaire beefs ... it was a lot. As we look back on ...
Tesla has two days to remove Robotaxi safety drivers in Austin to reach Elon Musk’s repeated goal
CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly said that the company would remove the safety drivers from its Austin Robotaxi service by year’s end: September X post : “The safety driver is just there for the first few...
NHTSA investigates Tesla Model 3 over concerns mechanical door release is “not readily accessible or easily identifiable”
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it is investigating the emergency exit controls on 179,071 model year 2022 Model 3 vehicles after receiving a defect petition allegin...
Tesla might get to a 1,000 Robotaxis in the Bay Area this year after all
has registered 1,655 ride-hailing vehicles in California, up from just 28 when it launched the service in August, according to California Public Utilities Commission data cited by Business Insider . T...
Lyft sinks as Wedbush downgrades the stock and warns about robotaxi disruption risk
Shares of are down about 4% on Friday morning after the ride-hailer was downgraded by Wedbush to “underperform” from “neutral.” Lyft’s rival also ticked down in early trading. According to a note pu...
Rivian climbs as it rolls out a “universal hands-free” update and scores an upgrade from Baird
Shares of EV maker are on pace for their 10th best day of 2025 on Thursday, following an upgrade from Baird to “buy” from “hold” and the rollout of its new hands-free driving update. Baird raised its...
California judge rules that Tesla has to rename “Autopilot” because it’s misleading
The California Department of Motor Vehicles ruled Tuesday that violated state law by marketing its driver assistance features using “misleading” terms like “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving Capabili...
Joby announces plans to double its air taxi manufacturing to 4 per month by 2027
Air taxi maker on Wednesday announced that it’s making investments in equipment, facilities, and employees to double its aircraft output — to four per month — by 2027. The company said it’s working t...
Tesla closes at all-time high
closed at an all-time high today of over $489. The company has been riding high as it tests its autonomous Robotaxi service without safety monitors and takes a bigger chunk of shrinking EV market shar...
Tesla’s 29 Austin Robotaxis have crashed 8 times since June, as data suggests they perform much worse than human drivers
29 Austin Robotaxis have been involved in eight crashes since they launched in June, Electrek reports, citing National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data you can download here . Those crashes ...
Tesla jumps while Uber and Lyft dive, as Tesla tests Robotaxis without safety drivers
Over the weekend, began testing its driverless cars without safety monitors — a move that’s sent Tesla up and competitors and down as investors view it as concrete momentum toward Tesla’s autonomous...
Dan Ives’ rosy predictions for Tesla
Wedbush Securities analyst and bull Dan Ives is excited for the company’s new year and next decade. To demonstrate, Ives, who says he “never viewed Tesla simply as a car company,” published a series ...
Tesla is testing Robotaxis in Austin without people in the front (or back)
It looks like driverless cars are finally ditching the driver. On Sunday, eyewitnesses spotted at least two Robotaxis driving around Austin without safety monitors — the Tesla employees who’ve been s...
Rivian sure picked a bad time for its AI Day as investors dump tech stocks
The event coordination team at is probably having a bad one, as investors dumped the stock ahead of its “Autonomy and AI Day” amid a broader AI trade sell-off . Heading into the event that began at n...
Air taxi companies have mastered a crucial piece of technology: The press release
To follow the electric aircraft industry is to get familiar with the art of the press release. Companies in the US eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) market, dominated by , , and the newly ...
Elon Musk tells Google executive that “Waymo never really had a chance against Tesla”
Not one for modesty, CEO Elon Musk responded to a post on X by Jeff Dean, chief scientist at DeepMind, by saying, “Waymo never really had a chance against Tesla.” He added, “This will be obvious in ...
Where Morgan Stanley thinks autonomous taxis will be in 2032
Recently we laid out the current autonomous ride-share landscape , which is mostly a battle between Waymo and . According to a new report from Morgan Stanley’s research team that looks forward to the...
Waymo says its robotaxis are involved in 80% fewer injury-causing crashes than human-driven cars
After killing a beloved neighborhood cat a little over a month ago, self-driving car company, Waymo, is once again having to defend its safety protocols. Last Friday, Waymo said that it’s planning a ...
Google’s Waymo to expand autonomous driving service to Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh
-owned Waymo announced Wednesday that it’s planning on expanding to four additional cities — Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh — though it hasn’t provided a timeline for when customer...
Uber beats Google’s Waymo to Dallas
jumped more than 2% premarket after announcing that users in Dallas could be matched with its Avride robotaxis beginning today. The coverage area is small to start with — 9 square miles of Dallas, in...