Transportation Stories for 2023

How 'Digital Twin' Technology Is Revolutionizing the Auto Industry 37
How Electric Cars are Already Upending America 472
A New Type of Jet Engine Could Revive Supersonic Air Travel 58
First EV With Lithium-Free Sodium Battery Hits the Road In January 67
UK Startup Develops Low Carbon Jet Fuel Made From Human Waste 41
Toyota-owned Automaker Halts Japan Production After Admitting It Tampered With Safety Tests for 30 Years 48
Xiaomi's First EV is the Freshest Take on a 'Smartphone on Wheels' 32
US Engine Maker Will Pay $1.6 Billion To Settle Claims of Emissions Cheating 100
Southwest Airlines Cancels Hundreds of Flights 22
'Therapy Llamas' Visit Portland Airport to Lower the Stress of Travellers 48
In Contrast To Cruise, Waymo Is Touting Its Vehicles' Safety In New Report 55
Canada Lays Out Plan To Phase Out Sales of Gas-Powered Cars, Trucks By 2035 405
Is Climate-Friendy Flying Possible? The US Tries Subsidizing Sustainable Aviation Fuels 138
GM's Cruise Cuts 24% of Its Workforce 29
GM's Cruise Robotaxi Unit Dismisses Nine Execs After Safety Probe 27
GM Says It's Ditching Apple CarPlay, Android Auto For Your Safety 164
Bus-Melting Jet Cars Are Getting Scarce 78
UK's First Carbon Capture Plant Turns CO2 Into Jet Fuel 119
Fiat 500e EVs Will Begin Battery Swap Testing In 2024 90
America's Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds 99
Congress Spent Billions On EV Chargers. But Not One Has Come Online. 227
Automakers' Data Privacy Practices 'Are Unacceptable,' Says US Senator 18
How the Concorde Plans Were Secretly Given To the Russians 93
EV Owners Report 'Far More' Problems Than Conventional Car Owners, Says Consumer Reports 172
Tesla's New Cybertruck Includes a 'Powershare' Bidirectional Charging Feature 153
Michigan Installs First Wireless EV Charging Road In US 97
Rolls-Royce Exits Electric Propulsion To Focus On Core Businesses 93
Hyundai and Kia's New 'Uni Wheel' Drive System Could Revolutionize EV Design 195
Traffic Pollution Can Cause Rise In Blood Pressure, Study Finds 22
American Airlines To Turn 10K Tons of CO2 Into Buried Carbon Blocks 100
First Transatlantic Flight Using 100% Sustainable Jet Fuel Takes Off 106
Could Airports Make Hydrogen Work As Fuel? 168
New Jersey Moves To Ban New Gas Powered Vehicle Sales From 2035 219
Airlines Will Make a Record $118 Billion in Extra Fees this Year 200
Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks 183
US Autoworkers End Strike with Pay Raises and a Chance to Unionize EV Battery Plants 145
Cruise's CEO Resigns 48
Swedish Workers Are Uniting Against Tesla 197
Amazon To Sell Cars Online, Starting With Hyundai 58
Cruise Robotaxi Shutdown Expands, Pressing Pause On Supervised and Manual Trips Too 38
Rivian Software Update Bricks Infotainment System, Fix Not Obvious 111
Joby, Volocopter Fly Electric Air Taxis Over New York City 30
Are Car Dealers Slowing the Adoption of Electric Vehicles? 384
Cruise Recalls All of Its Self Driving Cars To Fix Their Programming 31
Court Rules Automakers Can Record and Intercept Owner Text Messages 89
Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine 37
The World's Largest Aircraft Breaks Cover in Silicon Valley 121
Cruise Confirms Robotaxis Rely On Human Assistance Every Four To Five Miles 52
Waze Will Now Warn Drivers About Crash Dangers Using Historical Data 23
Washington DC Gives Residents Free AirTags To Help Track Stolen Cars 110
After Suspending Its Self-Driving Cars, Cruise Takes Steps to Win Back Trust 76
Whatever Happened to Amazon's Drone Delivery Service? 71
VW Group's Troubled Cariad Software Division To Lay Off 2,000 Workers 34
12 V Battery Problem Forces Toyota To Recall 1.8 Million SUVs 62
Cruise Suspends All Driverless Operations Nationwide 139
How Long Do EV Batteries Last? Longer Than You Might Think, Research Suggests 172
Auto Execs Are Coming Clean: EVs Aren't Working 352
Hyundai To Hold Software-Upgrade Clinics Across the US For Vehicles Targeted By Thieves 59
Volkswagen To Stop Selling Combustion Vehicles In Norway From 2024 82
GM Offers Chevy Bolt Owners $1,400 For Dealing With Software-Limited, Fire-Prone Batteries 36
Honda Says Making Cheap Electric Vehicles is Too Hard, Ends Deal With GM 181
California Suspends GM Cruise Self-Driving Vehicles As 'Not Safe' For Public 115
CarPlay? Android Auto? Most People Still Just Listen to AM/FM Radio 209
Convoy Trucking Startup, Backed By Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, Is Closing Operation With No Buyer 23
Tesla Announces Cybertruck Deliveries In November, Claims 125K Production Capacity 127
Amazon Plans To Deploy Delivery Drones In the UK and Italy Next Year 16
GM Delays EV Truck Production At Michigan Plant By Another Year 114
'World's First Off-Road Solar SUV' Just Drove Across Morocco 82
How a Series of Air Traffic Control Lapses Nearly Killed 131 People 58
Australian Student Invents Affordable Electric Car Conversion Kit. 88
Tesla Releases Official API Documentation To Support Third-Party Apps 7
Waymo's Robotaxi Service Is Now Available To Thousands In San Francisco 10
Freak Accident in San Francisco Traps Pedestrian Under Robotaxi 104
EV Buyers Will Get an Instant Rebate of as Much as $7,500 Starting in 2024 145
Hyundai, Kia To Adopt Tesla EV-Charging Standard From 2024 In US 59
Kidnapped By a Runaway Electric Car 351
Will EVs Send OPEC Into a Death Spiral? 206
Kia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram For Their Cars Getting Stolen 80
Nissan To Go All-Electric By 2030 Despite UK's Petrol Ban Delay 240
How Lockheed Martin Designed the World's Weirdest, Quietest Supersonic Jet 77
Volkswagen Hit By IT Outage, Brand Vehicle Production In Germany Halted 15
Airlines Are Just Banks Now 151
Ford Pauses Construction On $3.5 Billion EV Battery Plant In Michigan 134
Privately-Owned High-Speed Rail Opens New Line in Florida, Kills Pedestrian 220
Has America Passed the 'Tipping Point' for Purchasing Electric Vehicles? 314
Cruise CEO Says SF 'Should Be Rolling Out the Red Carpet' for Robotaxis, Threatens To Maybe Leave Town 125
Waymo Begins Testing the Waters For a Robotaxi Service In Los Angeles 30
European Governments Shrinking Railways in Favour of Road-Building, Report Finds 209
Hundreds of Flying Taxis To Be Made In Ohio 98
'Uber Was Supposed to Help Traffic. It Didn't. Robotaxis Will Be Even Worse.' 264
What Happens When You Cross a Gas Turbine With an Internal Combustion Engine? 158
Munich Students Smashed the World Record For EV Distance On a Single Charge 111
Honda's '80s Microscooter Is Back and Electrified For the 21st Century 26
Tesla Reinvents Carmaking With Quiet Breakthrough 248
Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles Dominate India's Auto Market, EVs Lag 102
Small Protest Against Cruise Robotaxis Cites Concerns for Safety - and Displaced Workers 73
Bogus Supplier of Jet-Engine Parts May Have Faked Employees Too 25
BMW Drops Controversial Heated Seats Subscription, To Refocus On Software Services 73
Internet-Connected Cars Fail Privacy and Security Tests Conducted By Mozilla 26
Toyota Says Filled Disk Storage Halted Japan-Based Factories 67
China Reaches Peak Gasoline in Milestone for Electric Vehicles 153
Why Self-Driving Cars Slowed Down in High-Tech Boston 46
After Hurricane-Caused Flooding, Some EVs Exposed To Saltwater Caught Fire 193
Cruise Disputes Report Its Robotaxi Blocked an Ambulance Carrying Patient Who Later Died 75
The Titan Submersible Disaster Was Years In the Making, New Details Reveal 196
French Error Blamed for UK's Air Control Meltdown Which Left 300,000 Passengers With Cancellations 73
Paris Becomes the First European Capital To Ban Rented Electric Scooters 90
Kias and Hyundais Keep Getting Stolen By the Thousands and Cities Are Suing 264
Does 'Coning' Self-Driving Cars Protest Tech Industry Impacts? 145
Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often in the US Than Previously Known 36
Tesla Wins Permit Approval For Diner and Drive-In Movie Supercharger In LA 81
Automakers Now Have To Comply With MA's Right To Repair Law 53
Are Electric Vehicles Killing the Spare Tire? 314
After Firetruck Crash, California Tells Cruise to Reduce Robotaxi Fleet by 50% in San Francisco 160
Some People Are Having Sex in San Francisco's Robotaxis 56
Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards For Infinite Free Rides, and This Time Nobody Got Sued 38
California Allows Robo-Taxis To Expand 47
Texas Could Get a 205-MPH Bullet Train Zipping Between Houston and Dallas 229
How an Apple AirTag Tracked Lost Luggage Much Better Than United 124
California Will Probe Data-Collecting, Internet-Connected Cars 25
Waymo Says Austin, Texas, Will Be Its Next Robotaxi City 18
Uber CEO Stunned By $52 Bill For Reporter's 2.9 Mile NYC Uber Ride 76
The Boring Company Will Dig a 68-Mile Tunnel Network Under Las Vegas 142
68-Year-Old Uses AirTag (and Twitter) to Find the Bike His Airline Lost 99
Seven Major Automakers Plan 30,000 More High-Speed Chargers in North America by 2030 72
Waymo Self-Driving Unit Slows Autonomous Trucking 57
EU Passes Law To Blanket Highways With Fast EV Chargers by End of 2025 98
Rental Cars Are the New Airbnb 78
Many People Don't Actually Like Their Car's Infotainment Systems 110
Electric Air Taxi Completes Maiden Flight At 70kph 47
Nissan Is the Next Automaker To Adopt Tesla-Style EV Charging Plugs 71
Automakers Say They Resolved the Right-To-Repair Fight 28
Tesla Launches 'Charge On Solar' To Charge Your Cars With Sunshine 133
Green Energy Tycoon To Launch UK's First Electric Airline 69
Can Airline Seating Get Any Worse? 'A New Form of Torture Chamber' 182
Teenager Denied Flight Boarding for 'Skiplagging', the Money-Saving Lifehack Airlines Hate 338
Is There Still Room to Improve ICE Technology? 247
Driverless Taxis are Causing More 'Disruptions', San Francisco Officials Complain 88
Drones Reach Stratospheric Heights in Race To Fly Higher, Longer 24
US To Decide on GM Request To Deploy Self-Driving Cars 54
Should Public Buses Be Free? 362
Is the Obsession with EV Range All Wrong? 613
Mercedes-Benz Is the First German Automaker To Adopt Tesla's EV Charging Standard 45
Robotaxi Haters In San Francisco Are Disabling the AVs With Traffic Cones 92
The 5G Threats To Airplanes Quietly Recedes 39
Toyota Claims Solid-State Battery Has 745 Mile Range, 10 Minute Charging Time 230
Lamborghini Takes Last Combustion Engine Model Order 80
Kentucky Mandates Tesla's Charging Plug For State-Backed Charging Stations 75
Second-Largest US EV Fast-Charging Network Will Also Add Tesla Connectors 121
Joby Aviation's First Production Air Taxi Cleared For Flight Tests 25
Society of Automotive Engineers Is Standardizing Tesla's EV Charging Plug 76
Volvo Is Latest Automaker To Agree To Adopt Tesla's Charge Port 50
Paris Plans Electric Air Taxis Next Summer, More eVTOLs Predicted by 2028 72
Can EV Battery Swaps Be as Fast as Filling Up a Gas Tank? 325
Quality of New Vehicles In US Declining On More Tech Use, Study Shows 247
Ford Gets $9.2 Billion To Help US Catch Up With China's EV Dominance 82
Rivian Is the Next Automaker To Adopt Tesla's Charging Plugs 74
Suzuki and SkyDrive To Jointly Start Producing 'Flying Cars' in 2024 46
Why EVs Won't Crash the Electric Grid 418
iPhone Maker Foxconn To Switch To Cars As US-China Ties Sour 42
Mercedes Is Adding ChatGPT To Its Infotainment System 71
Feds Tell Automakers Not To Comply With Massachusetts 'Right To Repair' Law 89
NYC Will Charge Drivers Going Downtown 239
Autonomous Waymo Car Runs Over Dog In San Francisco 204
Tesla Orders Parts For 375K Cybertrucks In 2024 60
Mercedes First To Sell Vehicles In California With Hands-Free, Eyes-Off Automated Driving 56
GM Announces It Will Also Adopt Tesla's NACS Connector, Joining Ford 141
Judge Clears Massachusetts to Finally Enforce Its Right-to-Repair Law 67
In Hawaii, GPS Keeps Sending Drivers Into the Ocean 173
Switzerland Is Turning the Gap Between Train Tracks Into a 'Solar Carpet' 130
North America Is Now the Growth Leader For New Battery Factories 74
US Proposes Requiring New Cars To Have Automatic Braking Systems 142
Air New Zealand To Weigh Passengers Before They Board the Airplane 150
Automakers Ask Judge to Block Pending Enforcement of Massachusetts' Right-to-Repair Law 64
Tesla Model Y Is Now the World's Best-Selling Car, First EV To Do So 192
Uber Teams Up With Waymo To Add Robotaxis To Its App 25
France Bans Short-haul Flights To Cut Carbon Emissions 132
Ford Decides It Won't Kill AM Radio After All 152
Titanic: First Ever Full-sized Scans Reveal Wreck As Never Seen Before 41
Texas Joins States Charging High Fees to Register an EV 357
Kia and Hyundai Agree To $200 Million Settlement for Making Cars Viral Theft Targets 52
In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived 240
Gas-Powered Cars Won't Die Off Any Time Soon 357
Saving AM Radio - the Case For and Against 282
Deliveries-By-Drone Continue Expanding. Pizza Deliveries Planned for Seattle 80
Lithium-Ion Battery Fires on Aircraft are Happening 'Much More Frequently' 86
Ford CEO Says It Will Keep Apple CarPlay, Android Auto: 'We Lost That Battle 10 Years Ago' 168
Florida EVs May Be Charged 'Inductively' By One Mile of Highway 149
Mercedes Locks Better EV Engine Performance Behind Annoying Subscription Paywalls 296
Waymo Doubles Robotaxi Service Area In Phoenix 17
Stripe, a Longtime Partner of Lyft, Signs a Big Deal With Uber 5
NYPD Urges Citizens To Buy AirTags To Fight Surge In Car Thefts 115
Report: FAA Overruled Engineers, Let Boing Max Keep Flying 65
Millions Snap up New Germany-wide Public Transit Ticket 56
Transition to EVs Cited as More Automakers Reduce Workforces 148
California Passes 1st-In-Nation Emission Rules For Trains 136
Daimler Is Setting Up a $650 Million Charging Network For Commercial EVs 26
Cruise Robotaxis Now Run All Day In San Francisco 37
GM Is Killing Off the Chevy Bolt and Bolt EUV 297
Las Vegas-To-California Bullet Train Gets Bipartisan Backing 191
Californians Have Bought More Than 1.5 Million Electric Vehicles 128
Lyft Is Reportedly Slashing 1,200 Jobs, Or 30% of Its Workforce 20
The Car Thieves Using Tech Disguised Inside Old Nokia Phones and Bluetooth Speakers 44
Frozen Driverless Cars are Delaying San Francisco's Buses 188
China's Didi To Roll Out Self-Developed Robotaxis By 2025 5
Do High-Speed Rail Projects Increase Happiness? 142
US Proposes 56% Vehicle Emissions Cut By 2032, Requiring Big EV Jump 251
Ford To Spend $1.3 Billion To Transform Canada Factory Into EV Manufacturing Hub 38
EPA Said To Propose Rules Meant To Drive Up Electric Car Sales Tenfold 179
After Low-Speed Bus Crash, Cruise Recalled Software for Its Self-Driving Taxis in March 89
A Quandary as EV Makers Hunt for Metals: Unleash the Deep Sea Robots? 79
Walmart Plans Own EV Charger Network At US Stores By 2030 55
Driverless Bus Service To Start In Scotland In 'World First' 63
Google Now Guarantees Some Flight Prices Or Your Money Back 7
AM Radio to Be Dropped in All Ford New Models Except Commercial Vehicles 145
Driverless Cars Face Hit-and-Run Collisions from Human Drivers 58
California's Rain Slows Construction for Its High-Speed Bullet Train 62
US Approves California Plan Requiring Half of Heavy Duty Trucks Be EV By 2035 217
GM Plans To Phase Out Apple CarPlay In EVs, With Google's Help 121
EU Countries Approve 2035 Phaseout of CO2-Emitting Cars 113
Falling Lithium Prices are Making Electric Cars More Affordable 173
Germany Urges Loophole for EU Ban on Fossil-Fuel Cars: Synthetic Carbon-Captured Fuels 324
United Airlines Reveals First eVTOL Passenger Route Starting In 2025 56
VW Will Support Software Products For Up To 15 Years 23
Ford Says EV Unit Losing Billions, Should Be Seen As Startup 140
Millions of 'Extremely' Polluting Cars Still on Europe's Roads, Says Report 48
Hyundai Promises To Keep Buttons In Cars Because Touchscreen Controls Are Dangerous 145
Zipline Unveils P2 Delivery Drones That Dock and Recharge Autonomously 23
Government Opens $2.5 Billion For EV Chargers In Rural and Underserved Areas 303
US Court Rules Uber and Lyft Workers Are Contractors 95
GM Wants to Bring Microsoft's ChatGPT to Cars 78
Teens Are Stealing More Cars. They Learn How on Social Media. 99
Wing Debuts a Rideshare-Style Drone Delivery Network 20
2024 Ford Mustang Drops AM Radio From Infotainment 218
VW Says Sorry For Child Carjacking Fiasco, Makes Safety Service Free 54
New $10B High-Speed Rail Line to Las Vegas Planned in California 190
Universal Hydrogen's 40-Passenger Hydrogen Electric Plane Completes Maiden Flight 50
Mississippi Passes Bill To Stop EV Dealers 154
Tesla Plans Gigafactory In First Mexico Investment 25
USPS Starts Nationwide Electric Vehicle Fleet 86
Tesla Superchargers Are Now Open To Non-Tesla EV Owners In the US 271
Future Fords Could Repossess Themselves, Drive Away If You Miss Payments 180
Battery-Swapping EVs Are All the Rage in Taiwan 125
China Is Exporting Its Obsession with Tiny Electric Vehicles 110
Subway To Build EV Charging Playgrounds, 'Oasis' For Diners 155
Electric Vehicles Can Now Power Your Home for Three Days 163
Asphalt Additive Could Continuously Keep Roads Ice-Free 54
Tesla To Open US Charging Network To Rivals In $7.5 Billion Federal Program 125
Ford Halts Production, Shipments of F-150 Lightning Over Possible Battery Issue 82
EU Lawmakers Approve Effective 2035 Ban on New Fossil Fuel Cars 196

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