Articles about Automotive

With interest in electric trucks on the rise, Rivian gets set for business in Seattle area

Rivian, the California-based electric vehicle startup that some call the “Tesla of Trucks,” is setting up a showroom in Seattle… Read More

Newly-named Ford CEO worries about Amazon and other tech giants

Ford Motor Company is getting a new CEO. And rather than GM, he’s got tech giant in his sights. “We… Read More

Elon Musk shatters stereotypes (and windows) with Tesla’s all-electric, edgy Cybertruck

Amid clouds of smoke and “Blade Runner” hype, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled a hard-edged, all-electric pickup truck that will… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: International Tabletop Day, Orca Action Month, GeekWire Cloud Summit

— Video games tend to take center stage in the gaming world today, but classic tabletop competition is still one… Read More

Automotive giant Lear will pay $320M to acquire Seattle-area connected car startup Xevo

Global automotive giant Lear today announced that it will acquire Seattle-area connected car startup Xevo for $320 million. Xevo, originally… Read More

Lumotive's William Colleran and Gleb Akselrod

How Lumotive will put metamaterials in self-driving cars, with Bill Gates’ backing

BELLEVUE, Wash. — A succession of spinouts supported by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has taken an unorthodox technology known as… Read More

‘We are bringing S3XY back’: Tesla’s Elon Musk introduces Model Y crossover SUV

Tesla CEO Elon Musk finished spelling out an all-electric acronym by lifting the veil on the Model Y, a crossover… Read More

Tesla starts selling $35,000 Model 3 electric cars and shifts to online-only sales

Tesla is finally following through on its pledge to sell its Model 3 electric cars at the standard price of… Read More

Tesla CEO Elon Musk places future bets on Model Y electric SUV — and on China

As big as the Model 3 electric car is for the future of Tesla, the sport utility vehicle known as… Read More

Seattle-area startup FenSens wants to put a smart wireless backup camera on every vehicle

LAS VEGAS — Backup cameras have become standard in newer cars, but drivers of older vehicles are missing out. A… Read More

GM shifts its president, Dan Ammann, to the CEO position at Cruise Automation

General Motors has shuffled its executive team to put its president, Dan Ammann, into the CEO spot at its autonomous-vehicle… Read More

GM’s Cruise Automation self-driving car venture plans Seattle office with up to 200 engineers

Cruise Automation, General Motors’ autonomous-vehicle subsidiary, says it’s getting ready to open up an office in the Seattle area that… Read More

After all the drama, Tesla posts ‘historic’ quarterly report with profit and added cash

Tesla shares jumped more than 10 percent in after-hours trading today after the controversial electric-car company posted a surprisingly positive… Read More

Tesla rebounds after Elon Musk settles SEC lawsuit (and after big Model 3 push)

Tesla’s share price jumped today as dramatically as it fell on Friday, thanks largely to this weekend’s settlement of the… Read More

SEC charges Tesla CEO Elon Musk with securities fraud over ‘misleading’ tweets

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Tesla’s billionaire CEO and chairman, Elon Musk, with securities fraud over a series… Read More

Tesla stock goes through twists and turns as analysts focus on Model 3 car outlook

Tesla’s share price took a weird turn today after the company reported its first-quarter financial results and billionaire CEO Elon… Read More

Surprise! Elon Musk unveils Tesla Semi truck – plus a remade Roadster that’s beyond ludicrous

Tesla CEO Elon Musk rode in with revelations about his company’s all-electric Semi truck, but walked off with an even… Read More

$50 ‘Muse’ device puts Amazon’s Alexa in the car, connects via smartphone

Another technology company is aiming to bring Amazon’s Alexa into the car. San Francisco-based Speak Music, the company behind the… Read More

How this father-daughter founding team landed a spot in Techstars with their automotive startup

Jere Lansinger needed some business advice. After spending more than four decades working as an automotive engineer for Chrysler, Lansinger was… Read More

Tesla posts better-than-expected quarterly results with Model 3 car in the spotlight

Tesla’s Model 3 electric car was the focus of today’s chatter in the wake of the company’s quarterly earnings report,… Read More

Elon Musk kicks off deliveries of Tesla Model 3 cars and vows to pick up the pace

As thousands of employees and fans cheered, Tesla CEO Elon Musk drove a red Model 3 electric car onto the… Read More

Elon Musk shows off the first official Tesla Model 3 car in a tweet – and it’s his

The hundreds of thousands of customers who have plunked down deposits for the mass-market Tesla Model 3 electric car are… Read More

Elon Musk says Tesla Model 3 car will debut this week, with quick ramp-up ahead

Tesla’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, says the first production model of the company’s anxiously awaited mass-market Model 3 electric car… Read More

Tesla briefly tops GM as America’s most valuable automaker, amazing analysts

For a time on Monday, Tesla edged out GM in market capitalization to become the most valuable U.S. automaker, even… Read More

Audi teams up with Nvidia to create an advanced autonomous car by 2020

Nvidia may be best-known for video games, but its deal with Audi to provide the smarts for an autonomous vehicle… Read More

Victory for V2V: Connected car technology gets Transportation Department’s vote

The U.S. Department of Transportation today laid out its proposal for enabling cars and light trucks to connect to each… Read More

How your future car’s virtual driver will take advantage of computing in the cloud

The car of the future may well be controlled by a certified virtual driver that relies on the cloud for… Read More

Tesla revs up production plan for Model 3 cars; Elon Musk is sleeping in the factory

Tesla Motors says it will ramp up production of its best-selling Model 3 electric car much more quickly than planned,… Read More

Elon Musk’s Tesla Model 3 update: 325,000 cars ordered, and your bike will fit

In the week since Tesla Motors unveiled its Model 3 electric car at the not-so-ludicrous price of $35,000, would-be owners… Read More

‘Affordable’ Tesla Model 3 electric car gets 5-star reveal from Elon Musk

Tesla Motors’ Model 3 electric sedan may be geared for mass-market affordability, but CEO Elon Musk made it clear at… Read More