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Xiaomi YU7 GT Laps Nürburgring With Nobody Driving, Posting First Autonomous Record
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Xiaomi YU7 GT Laps Nürburgring With Nobody Driving, Posting First Autonomous Record

A Xiaomi YU7 GT circled the Nürburgring Nordschleife with an empty driver’s seat and logged 10 minutes, 29.483 seconds, the first officially timed autonomous lap of the German circuit. Xiaomi set the run on June 8 and announced it on June 22, releasing onboard video that shows the steering wheel turning itself through the corners…

Tesla Cybercab Outbound Lot Hits Its Fullest Yet at Giga Texas
Tesla

Tesla Cybercab Outbound Lot Hits Its Fullest Yet at Giga Texas

The outbound lot at Gigafactory Texas held its largest visible batch of production Cybercab units yet on Sunday, June 14, 2026, with the gold-finished robotaxis staged in tight rows along the factory’s west side. A widely shared count from a Tesla observer on X put the tally at a record 102 cars, a figure that…

Ford's $30,000 EV Pickup Breaks Cover in Long Beach, Far From the Detroit Roads Ford Flagged
Ford

Ford’s $30,000 EV Pickup Breaks Cover in Long Beach, Far From the Detroit Roads Ford Flagged

Ford’s $30,000 electric pickup has been photographed on public streets for the first time, and the sighting happened in Long Beach, California, roughly 2,300 road miles from the metro Detroit area where the company said camouflaged prototypes would soon appear. The Autopian published exclusive spy photos on June 9, 2026, showing a camouflaged four-door pickup…

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China’s EV Dominance Came From City Hall, Not Beijing, And Washington Is Repeating Its Drone Mistake

New research published in The China Journal dismantles the story Washington tells itself about China’s electric vehicle rise. Political scientists Fengming Lu and Xiao Ma argue the boom was never engineered by a Beijing master plan. It grew from alliances between ambitious second-tier city governments and private carmakers that central regulators had locked out of…

Slate Truck Ships With No Modem, Making Driver Tracking Physically Impossible
Slate

Slate Truck Ships With No Modem, Making Driver Tracking Physically Impossible

Slate Auto has confirmed its electric pickup will ship without an embedded cellular modem, a hardware choice that removes the ability to transmit driver location at the factory rather than promising restraint in a policy document. The Slate Truck physically cannot stream driving behavior to third parties or accept remote commands. There is no persistent…

Rolls Royce Updates Its Electric Spectre Series II, Now the Most Powerful Rolls Ever
BMW

Rolls-Royce Updates Its Electric Spectre Series II, Now the Most Powerful Rolls Ever

Rolls-Royce unveiled the Spectre Series II on June 2, 2026, pushing estimated EPA range to 308 miles, adding NACS (North American Charging Standard) support for the US market, and introducing a Black Badge variant that becomes the most powerful production car in the brand’s 122-year history. The update addresses the two most consistent criticisms of…

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