In EV, battery and charging news are Schneider Electric, Addionics, BTC POWER, Aptera Motors, BMW Group and Camel Group. [ez-toc] Schneider Charge Level 2 EVSE SmartAmp Dynamic Load Management Schneider Electric announced the rollout of Schneider Charge, a Level 2 residential EV charging station delivering up to 11.5 kW (48A) across both NACS (SAE J3400) … Read more
Washington, D.C. —As the National Sleep Foundation prepares to convene its 2026 Drowsy Driving Forum this fall, the organization building coalitions. The foundation announced Wednesday the lineup for its Solutions & Actions Panel, a discussion that will bring together some of the country’s most prominent voices in sleep medicine, highway safety and automotive journalism. The … Read more
Volvo Cars is rolling out a software update that expands one of the automaker’s longest-running safety experiments, adding four new real-time hazard alerts to the EX90 and EX60 while also delivering a long-requested audio upgrade for owners who stream music through Apple CarPlay. The update, announced August 26, 2026, builds on a connected safety system … Read more
Cerence Inc. is deploying its acoustic emergency vehicle detection technology into Japan’s growing autonomous transit sector, announcing that Advanced Smart Mobility Co., Ltd. (AS Mobi) is deploying Cerence Emergency Vehicle Detection (EVD) across its autonomous bus platform during ongoing field trials in multiple regions of the country. The announcement, made jointly from Cerence’s Burlington, Massachusetts … Read more
For years, the promise of an electric vehicle doubling as a home backup battery has sat just out of reach for most California drivers, available only to owners of a narrow slate of trucks and sedans built with bidirectional charging in mind. That is beginning to change. Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced today a … Read more
In connected car news are Verra Mobility, CardinaleWay, Hyundai, Genesis, AWS, Cinemo, AUTOCRYPT, LG, Cedar, TomTom, Dolby & SmashLabs. [ez-toc] USF Study Records 97 Percent Drop in Speeding Violations via Verra Mobility School Zone Tech An independent study conducted by the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) at the University of South Florida indicates that … Read more
In autonomous and self-driving vehicle news are Waymo, Google, Uber, Zipline, Pony.ai, Verne, Momenta, XHEART, BlackBerry QNX, Baidu, TIER IV and Renesas. [ez-toc] Waymo Named Official Autonomous Ride-Hailing Partner of Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium The Las Vegas Raiders and autonomous driving technology developer Waymo have entered into a multi-year commercial partnership, designating the … Read more
In EV, battery and charging news are LG Energy, Einride, Tesla, Grounded, HEVO, APM Terminals, Orange EV, Blink Charging, Hyundai Motor, Shell, Genesis, IONNA, VinFast, Sila, Asahi Kasei, ComEd, Walmart and Aptera. [ez-toc] LG Energy Begins 35GWh Lansing Battery Facility LG Energy Solution has officially started production at its new 226-acre manufacturing facility in Lansing, … Read more
New vehicle owners are growing skeptical of screen-heavy, feature-dense technology, favoring instead the kind of automotive tech they barely notice, according to the JD Power 2026 U.S. Tech Experience Index (TXI) Study. The annual study, which measures how effectively automakers bring new technology to market, found that features operating quietly in the background are earning … Read more
Genesis has entered the top tier of the luxury SUV market with the reveal of the GV90, the automaker’s first full-size flagship SUV, shown at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. The vehicle arrives in two forms — a GV90 Neolun with an unusual hidden-pillar coach door and a standard GV90 with conventional … Read more
AUTOCRYPT, the South Korean automotive cybersecurity firm, has won the Car Hacking Village Capture the Flag competition at DEF CON 34, besting 83 teams from around the world in a contest widely regarded as the proving ground for real-world vehicle hacking talent. The company’s Red Team became the first in the event’s history to complete … Read more
Tesla is closing in on the first public rollout of its purpose-built Cybercab robotaxi, with the company telling employees to prepare for road operations in Austin in the coming days. The two-seat, steering-wheel-free vehicle has been in production at Gigafactory Texas since February, and the latest units rolling off the line now carry an integrated … Read more
