Nio Inc. opened a new engineering facility in Oxfordshire on Thursday, marking the tenth anniversary of its UK R&D centre — one of the Chinese EV maker's earliest overseas engineering bases.

Waymo is recalling 3,871 robotaxis in the United States over a software defect that can allow its driverless cars to enter closed freeway construction zones and continue driving at speed.

Nio's compact sub-brand Firefly made its Hong Kong debut on Thursday, putting its only model on display at the city's largest automotive expo as the Shanghai-headquartered EV maker pushes deeper into right-hand-drive markets.

Ferrari is treating orders for the Luce as a measure of client commitment, with buyers who back the electric car standing a better chance of securing the brand's scarcest models, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, describing the approach as a loyalty test.

Lucid, Uber and Nuro named Houston as the second market for their robotaxi program on Wednesday, targeting a "mid-2027" launch that follows the service's planned debut in the San Francisco Bay Area later this year.

Lucid Chief Executive Silvio Napoli said no other car could match the company's Air Sapphire sedan on acceleration, range and comfort together, using a magazine comparison built around Ferrari's first electric car to argue that Lucid already leads the high-performance EV market.

Rivian laid off over 300 employees in its service and customer organisation on Tuesday, a fresh round of cuts that landed in the same week the company began delivering its mass-market R2 to buyers.

Emad Dlala, Lucid's departing Senior Vice President of Engineering and Software, publicly said goodbye to the company on Tuesday, posting a personal farewell on LinkedIn that closed a tenure of nearly 11 years.

A Rivian R2 owner said on early Tuesday that he had taken delivery of his midsize SUV, sharing a photograph of the car beside the number 985 — the highest figure yet attached to the model and a step above the serial logged only a day before.

Shen Fei, the top executive who built Nio Inc.'s charging and battery-swap business from nothing, has stepped down as legal representative and manager of the entity that operates it, according to Chinese corporate records.

Lucid's long-promised vehicle-to-home (V2H) capability, which the company last January said would arrive in the first half of 2026, appears on course to miss that window, making the home-backup feature the latest item on the carmaker's roadmap to slip.

Tesla's Cybercab has secured a US Environmental Protection Agency Certificate of Conformity, and the underlying filing has revealed the purpose-built robotaxi's specifications for the first time.

Rivian's R2 production ramp gained a fresh data point on Monday, after an enthusiast photographed a unit carrying VIN 904 — the highest publicly logged serial yet for the midsize SUV.

Canada's Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is in China this week courting four Chinese automakers she wants to build electric vehicles on Canadian soil, the clearest test yet of whether Ottawa can convert tariff relief into local factories.

CATL's move into nuclear fusion has aligned the world's largest battery maker with one of its closest EV partners, Nio, which placed its own bet on the technology three years ago.

Rivian founder and chief executive RJ Scaringe says the company is only months away from rolling out a supervised self-driving feature that he likens directly to Tesla's Full Self-Driving.

Nio's research and development (R&D) spending has become more efficient even as the budget has contracted, a VP said on Saturday, citing the company's decision to design its own smart-driving chips as the clearest example.

Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on Friday as SpaceX surged in its Nasdaq debut, with the largest initial public offering in history lifting the rocket and satellite company's market value to $2.18 trillion.

California's Department of Transportation has recently ordered 524 additional Rivian vehicles, public procurement records show.

Nio inaugurated its first 'Nio House' in Greece on Thursday, seven months after its official market debut in the country.