Rivian has issued a software update for its largest commercial van that adds a Google Maps navigation system and fixes a fault that could damage the drive unit during cold-weather fast charging.

Tesla has begun landing its first Shanghai-built Model 3 sedans at Canadian delivery centers, as the company readies to take advantage of the deal struck last January in Beijing.

A three-man team has driven a Tesla Model 3 across Canada from coast to coast on the company's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software without a single intervention, the group said Friday, in what it billed as a world first.

EV maker Lucid Motors will be rolling out an over-the-air (OTA) software update to 2,039 of its Air electric sedans in the US over an inverter defect that can cut drive power without warning, raising the risk of a crash.

Waymo will begin offering rides in its new purpose-built robotaxi, the Ojai, to select riders in the coming weeks, the Alphabet unit said on Thursday, marking the public debut of the China-built model designed from the ground up for autonomous ride-hailing.

BYD unveiled a self-developed 4-nanometer intelligent-driving chip on Thursday, the Xuanji A3, which the company described as China's first automotive-grade processor built on the advanced node.

Nio has increased its investment in AI training compute roughly fivefold this year and plans an even larger wave of spending, founder and CEO William Li told reporters in Beijing on Thursday, a day after the launch of the company's ES9 flagship SUV.

SAIC Motor became the first Chinese automaker to produce and sell 100 million vehicles cumulatively, the company said on Thursday.

A Firefly battery swap on Nio's new fifth-generation station takes about three and a half minutes, the first figure to emerge for the budget brand and nearly double the station's quoted minimum.

XPeng expects to deliver between 100,000 and 106,000 vehicles in the second quarter, guidance issued alongside its first-quarter results on Thursday that sets a demanding pace for the final two months of the period.

XPeng reported a wider first-quarter net loss on Thursday as vehicle deliveries fell by a third, though the Chinese EV maker guided to a steep sequential recovery in the current quarter.

Li Auto reported a 66.0% plunge in first-quarter gross profit on Thursday as its vehicle margin dropped to single digits, sending the shares lower.

Nio shares climbed sharply in New York on Wednesday after the Chinese EV maker launched its flagship ES9 SUV at prices below the levels set at the model's pre-sale debut six weeks earlier.

Nuro released footage on Wednesday showing one of its robotaxi engineering vehicles driving autonomously through busy intersections in downtown Mountain View, California, offering a fresh look at the urban capability of the system it is developing with Lucid and Uber.

RoboSense's LiDAR sensors are now in mass production across nearly 70 vehicle models, with the Chinese supplier's pipeline reaching nearly 180.

Nio launched the ES9 on Wednesday, the most expensive and largest vehicle the Chinese automaker has built, with first deliveries in China scheduled for Thursday, May 28.

Nio's mass-market sub-brand Onvo has supplied its L60 SUV to Shanghai's municipal government for official use, the latest in a widening run of public-sector deals for the Chinese EV maker.

CLSA has started coverage of Nio's Hong Kong-listed shares with an Outperform rating while increasing the price target on the US-listed shares, days after the Chinese EV maker reported its second consecutive non-GAAP profitable quarter.

Volvo Cars has secured a special authorization from the US Department of Commerce to continue importing and selling connected vehicles in the United States, clearing a regulatory threat to one of its most important markets at a time when its Americas sales are falling.

Nio used a customer event in the Netherlands this week to address mounting frustration among its European owners, as the Old Continent plays an important role in the company's ambition to sell "several thousand" electric vehicles outside China this year.