Andrew J. Hawkins

The EV tech startup rocked the auto industry with its CES announcement of a production-ready solid-state battery. Since then, there’s been a lot of skepticism and some out-right denials that the battery is even real. Now, Donut Labs is pushing back with a cleverly titled new video series, “I Donut Believe,” and independent test results that verify its claims. The first report is expected to drop next week.

A federal jury in Florida last year found Tesla partly liable for a deadly 2019 crash involving the company’s Autopilot driver assist software, and ordered the company to pay the families $243 million. Tesla appealed the ruling, but now a judge has dismissed that effort. In her ruling, US District Court Judge Beth Bloom stated that Tesla’s arguments “were already considered and rejected” and that the evidence at trial “more than supports the jury verdict and does not find it committed any error.”

The SUV pioneer owned by Volkswagen won’t start production on its first EVs, the Terra truck and the Traveler SUV, until 2028, not 2027 as originally planned, German publication Der Spiegel reports (as noted by The Drive). Given the dour mood around EVs these days, a one-year production delay isn’t the worse news.

We can’t really tell from the photo whether it has a steering wheel, which was probably a deliberate choice. Elon Musk has said that the fully driverless vehicle will go into volume production in April.

That works out to one crash for every 57,000 miles, according to Electrek, which has been tracking robotaxi crashes reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Tesla also updated a July 2025 crash to include information about someone being hospitalized — but since Tesla heavily redacts its crash reports, we have no more information about who was injured. The lack of transparency from Tesla also means we have no information about the cause or circumstances around any of those 14 crashes.