Andrew J. Hawkins

The storm struck Friday evening, causing damage to one of the buildings in Rivian’s facility. A photo posted on Reddit showed the inside of Building 2 with the roof partially collapsed. No one was injured, and in an email to staff, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the building will be back up and running this week:

The company said today its robotaxis in the two Florida cities would be available to anyone using its ridehail app. Waymo typically invites select riders on a rolling basis before opening up its service to anyone with the app. The company take riders on Miami’s freeways, so routes could be a little quicker than usual.

The NAACP is suing xAI to block Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center project outside of Memphis, TN, claiming that the project is operating 27 gas turbines without an air permit and in violation of the Clean Air Act.

The iX is the latest EV to meet an untimely death in America, where policy decisions are propelling us backward rather than forwards. But discontinuing the iX — first reported by BMW Blog (we love it when an enthusiast blog breaks news ) — isn’t the end of BMW’s EV journey in the US. The German automaker is shifting to its next-gen Neue Klasse platform, with the new iX3 set to arrive in just a few months.

Clifford Wilson, an economist who specializes in transportation and microeconomic policy, writes in the New York Times about the death of the “econobox,” cheap, reliable vehicles that helped working people get around. Detroit stopped making these vehicles about 20 years ago, but Wilson thinks a possible solution is to open the floodgates to inexpensive EVs and hybrids from China. With lots of caveats, of course.