Andrew is transportation editor at The Verge, He covers electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, public transit, policy, infrastructure, electric bikes, and the physical act of moving through space and time. Prior to this, he wrote about politics at City & State, Crain’s New York Business and the New York Daily News. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids, and many different brands of peanut butter.
The company has yet to launch in its first market (San Francisco, later this year) but is already gearing up for its second. In Houston, Uber will be competing for passengers with Waymo and Tesla. But the ridehail company is in it to win it, having already secured a 50,000 square-foot facility for maintenance, and a charging pitstop for its Lucid-made, Nuro-powered robotaxis.
The Autopian spotted the highly anticipated EV in Long Beach this week. Although it was heavily camouflaged, the outlet was able to estimate its measurements to be around 64-inches tall and about 195-inches long, which would make it a little smaller than a Ford Maverick. That’s extremely interesting to me as a person who thinks most trucks today are way too big for their britches. Sure, it’s no kei truck, but for Ford, it’s practically microscopic. Bring on the baby trucks!
He said the company’s autonomous ridehail vehicles would be available to half the US population by the end of 2025. Well, here we are in June 2026, and Tesla only has 59 vehicles in a handful of Texas cities. Bloomberg breaks down the growing chasm between Musk’s bombastic predictions and the realities of a very slow, often inconvenient robotaxi service.
The 2027 Eclipse Sportback EV is based on the next-gen Nissan Leaf and will go on sale in North America later this fall. The Japanese automaker says it will reveal the prices and specs closer to launch, but given this is a Leaf in different clothing, you can probably expect a 75 kWh battery pack providing an estimated 303 miles of range.
The 5,458-acre site in Wittman, Arizona, was once the centerpiece of Apple’s ambition to build its own self-driving car. But after Tim Cook pulled the plug on Project Titan, the tech company put the testing ground up for sale. The deal, recorded June 5th in Maricopa County filings, is for $220 million — nearly twice the $125 million Apple paid for it in 2021. And it comes as Waymo expands its presence in Arizona, including new office space in Tempe.
[Phoenix Business Journal]
