The event will feature the delivery of the first batch of electric long-haul trucks to Pepsi, which publicly reserved 100 vehicles right after the Tesla Semi was first introduced in 2017. The handoff will be livestreamed on Twitter, for probably no specific reason at all.
President Biden has been getting an earful from foreign automakers, and even some heads of state, about the tough new requirements that need to be met to qualify for the $7,500-per-vehicle EV tax credit. And it sounds like he’s ready to do something. It will be a photo finish to see if he can get something passed during the lame duck session and before the IRS is required to issue guidance before the end of the year.
The automaker’s AV division, Cruise, submitted an application to the California DMV for permission to test its steering wheel-less autonomous people mover on public streets, according to a recorded request by the Wall Street Journal. The automaker says it will only test its Origin vehicle in a confined area in San Francisco during limited hours. If approved, it would be the first no-steering-wheel-having vehicle built for human passengers allowed on public roads in the state.
FIFA’s decision to use connected ball technology during this year’s World Cup is making it difficult for Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo to claim a goal during yesterday’s match with Uruguay. He says his head touched the ball before it went in, but Adidas says the ball showed no contact.
A half dozen cities and states have been ghosted by Musk’s tunneling venture. It seems that once things get serious, and governments start talking about permitting and environmental review, the Boring Company vanishes. Take Maryland for example:
An aide to Mr. Hogan toured a parking-lot test site at the company’s then-headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport, getting a look at a tunnel-boring machine the company purchased secondhand. Boring named it Godot, the title character in Samuel Beckett’s play about a man who never shows up.
The Republican Hogan administration sped up the bureaucratic process for Boring, granting a conditional permit in October 2017 and an environmental permit a few months later.
All Boring had to do was bring its machine and start digging, former Maryland officials said. But months, and then years, passed. Maryland was waiting for Godot.
