Tesla said during an earnings call that it’s on track to roll out a “pilot” robotaxi service. Tesla provided more details about its planned June robotaxi launch in Austin during Tuesday’s Q1 earnings call. A robotaxi service from Tesla comes years after several missed deadlines and an increasingly competitive — but smaller — field. General…

BYD’s $7,800 Seagull is affordable, packed with advanced tech — and virtually impossible to buy in the US.  It was already nearly impossible to buy a BYD in the US, but now things are getting somewhat out of hand. After a rapid escalation in the trade war between the US and China over the past…

A woman jumping next to a Porsche electric vehicle. I recently visited Redwood Materials, a company that’s deeply entrenched in the electric vehicle industry. This startup has agreements worth billions of dollars with major automakers and EV battery manufacturers, including VW, Toyota, GM, and Panasonic. So when I sat down with Redwood’s chief commercial officer,…

A Waymo comes out of a shipping container at an undisclosed port in Japan.  Waymo has arrived in Tokyo. The Alphabet-owned robotaxi company announced on Wednesday that its Jaguar I-PACE vehicles will begin mapping out seven central wards of Tokyo — Minato, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Chiyoda, Chūō, Shinagawa — which represent some of the city’s major…

Rolls-Royce cars are a major status symbol in the US, and they’re about to get a lot more expensive. Donald Trump may be a Rolls-Royce fan — but his tariffs are putting America’s love affair with European luxury car ownership under threat. Analysts told B-17 that boutique European brands face a hammer blow from Trump’s…

Spirit Airlines jets at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Finding a Spirit Airlines flight is looking a lot harder this summer. According to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics firm, the budget airline has scheduled 12,000 fewer flights through May and June compared to the same period last year — a decline of around 24%. Research…

BYD has grown rapidly in recent years, but India remains a stumbling block. India has blocked Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD from expanding in its auto market, just as Elon Musk’s Tesla looks to build its presence there. “India has to be cautious about its strategic interests, who we allow to invest,” Commerce Minister Piyush…

The European Union has fined Apple and Meta a combined $800 million for violating antitrust laws. Is that a big deal? On the one hand, not at all. If Apple and Meta end up paying the fines — both companies say they will appeal the rulings from the European Commission — the financial impact will…

The author’s family (not pictured) has toured many colleges.  It’s a rite of passage for most high school students. Smack in the middle of their busiest academic and social years, juniors and seniors spend vacations and weekends touring colleges. With my first kid, we visited many schools up and down the eastern seaboard. Eventually, we…