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Musk's x AI promised employees $420 for their tax data. Two months later, nothing.
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (280+ words) Elon Musk's x AI offered employees $420 to hand over their tax returns as Grok training data ahead of the April 15 deadline. Two months later, Bloomberg reports, the payments still have not been made....
XPeng starts its robotaxi line in Guangzhou, three years behind the leaders and ahead of any other Chinese automaker
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (852+ words) The first car off the line on Monday marks the start of a slow ramp. Public pilots arrive in the second half, fully driverless by early 2027. XPeng said on Monday that the first robotaxi had rolled off its production line…...
Chinese EVs are arriving in Canada. Nearly 400 dealers are already fighting to sell them.
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (629+ words) Canada cut tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6. 1% with a 49, 000-unit cap. Dealers are lining up, Trump calls it a disaster, and the first cars have landed....
Faraday Future raised $25 million for its robotics pivot. The fine print tells a different story.
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (547+ words) The troubled EV maker says $70 M in convertible notes will fund its AI robotics strategy. Its stock trades below $1 and Nasdaq has warned of delisting....
Chinese parts already power American cars, and that's exactly why Congress is panicking
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (22+ words) Bipartisan lawmakers push to ban Chinese vehicles from the US, but 60+ Chinese-owned suppliers already sit inside America's auto supply chain....
Bolt partners with China's Dongfeng to launch EV ride-hailing fleet in South Africa
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (291+ words) Bolt, which claims 50%+ market share in South Africa after investing $180 M, will offer Dongfeng's Box and 007 electric vehicles to riders in Cape Town as fuel costs rise....
Polestar CEO says 'pump anxiety' is driving EV demand as fuel prices surge from Iran war
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (569+ words) Polestar's CEO says high fuel costs have made EVs 'all about money'. EU registrations jumped 51% in March, but the company's own Q1 loss widened to $383 million....
Unitree GD01 mecha unveiled as company files for $7 billion IPO after outselling Tesla on humanoid robots
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (465+ words) Unitree Robotics unveiled a $650, 000 transformable mecha and is filing for a $7 billion IPO. The Chinese company shipped more humanoid robots than Tesla in 2025....
Former Tesla CFO Deepak Ahuja joins Redwood Materials as battery recycler pivots to AI energy infrastructure
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (507+ words) Deepak Ahuja, the CFO who took Tesla public, joins Redwood Materials as it pivots from battery recycling to powering AI data centres with second-life EV batteries....
Europe's cumulative EV investment passes "200bn
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (711+ words) New Auto Motive data reported by Reuters shows Europe has committed "200bn cumulatively to its EV supply chain....