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Waymo says it will add 2,000 more robotaxis into 2026

2025-05-05T14:56:12-04:00

A Waymo robotaxi being assembled at the company’s factory in Mesa, Arizona. | Image: Waymo

Waymo said it recently received its last delivery of Jaguar I-Pace SUVs, which will be retrofitted with sensors and autonomous driving technology at its factory in Arizona, before joining its robotaxi fleet.

In a blog post published today, the Alphabet company said it currently has 1,500 Jaguars operating across its four main markets: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin. And it plans on adding 2,000 more vehicles into 2026, for a total fleet size of 3,500. The company recently hit an average of 250,000 paid passenger trips per week.

Waymo typically doesn't like to comment on the size of its fleet, so today's announcement provi …

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Waymo might be willing to sell you a self-driving car, says Sundar Pichai

2025-04-25T11:46:14-04:00

Waymo may sell autonomous vehicles for personal ownership at some point in the future, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said during an earnings call last night. Pichai was asked about the long-term business model for Waymo, and he responded that it includes expanding partnerships like it has with Moove in Miami and Uber in Austin and, soon, Atlanta, but also mentioned "future optionality around personal ownership."

It's not the first time Waymo extended the idea to sell you a self-driving car. Back in 2018 it swung a deal with Chrysler to build self-driving Pacifica minivans and the companies began discussions about how to eventually sell them as …

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Jaguar Land Rover pauses US shipments over Trump tariffs

2025-04-05T11:28:55-04:00

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) says it's delaying shipments to the US this month while it works out how it will deal with the wide-ranging tariffs President Donald Trump announced this week, according to The Guardian.

"As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions, including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid- to longer-term plans," JLR told The Guardian. The automaker is responding to a 25 percent Trump-ordered tariff on imported vehicles that went into effect Thursday and could add $5,000 to $10,000 or more to the price of a new car in the US.

JLR said this week that …

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Jaguar is now JaGUar

2024-11-19T12:00:15-05:00

JaGUar | Image: Jaguar

British automaker Jaguar is changing its branding for "a new era" as it prepares to fulfill its plan to go all-electric for its lineup, with the first new model slated to launch in 2026. The automaker has revealed a new logo that changes the font, spaces out the letters, and uses a mix of upper and lowercase letters.

"This is a reimagining that recaptures the essence of Jaguar, returning it to the values that once made it so loved, but making it relevant for a contemporary audience," writes Jaguar Land Rover's chief creative officer Gerry McGovern. While at a press event, McGovern told journalists his team had "not been sniffing the white s …

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Range Rover will release an all-electric midsize SUV in 2025, JLR says

2023-04-19T12:38:20-04:00

Jaguar Land Rover will invest £15 billion ($18.7 billion) over the next five years in electric and autonomous vehicle technology, the automaker announced Wednesday. The company identified its Halewood plant in the UK for conversion to an all-EV manufacturing facility. And by 2030, JLR says it will be an "electric first, modern luxury carmaker."

The first medium-size all-electric Range Rover will be out in 2025, and JLR will begin to take orders for it later this year. The vehicle will be built using JLR's electrified modular architecture (EMA), which will power the company's upcoming slate of EVs. JLR, which is owned by India's Tata Motors, …

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Jaguar Land Rover says all of its cars will come with Nvidia’s Drive computers by 2025

2022-02-16T09:00:00-05:00

Jaguar Land Rover is teaming up with Nvidia to install high-powered computers in its vehicles to enable advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving features. Starting in 2025, all JLR vehicles will come with Nvidia's end-to-end Drive Hyperion platform installed, the companies said.

Hyperion is the latest iteration of Nvidia's Drive platform that allows automakers to customize their own driving features. And Orin is the chipmaker's system-on-a-chip, similar to Tesla's Full Self-Driving chip or Intel's Mobileye EyeQ. This new hardware will form the basis for a new suite of driving features, including advanced driver assistance systems, …

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Jaguar I-Pace is Google’s first electric Street View car

2021-05-25T19:01:00-04:00

Google finally has its first all-electric vehicle for capturing Street View. The tech giant and Jaguar Land Rover announced today that they have collaborated to rig up an all-electric I-Pace SUV with the equipment required to capture Street View imagery, and deployed the car in Dublin, Ireland.

The I-Pace will also collect more general Google Maps data, and it will be outfitted with air quality sensors from Aclima - something Google has done with its Street View cars for the better part of the last decade. The I-Pace will collect "street-by-street air quality" data in Dublin, measuring nitrogen dioxide and carbon dioxide emissions, as well …

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Jaguar Land Rover unveils ‘autonomy ready’ electric shuttle concept

2020-02-18T13:11:35-05:00

Jaguar Land Rover is the latest automaker to unveil an electric and "autonomy ready" shuttle pod designed for shared use in urban settings. "Project Vector" is just a concept, but the UK carmaker said it hopes to have some version of the vehicle on the road for testing by 2021.

For now, the automaker is keeping most of its specs under wraps. The vehicle is four meters long, with a motor and battery pack built into a flat floor, but JLR won't reveal the size of the battery or the range of the vehicle. The interior can be adjusted for private or shared use as well as for last-mile delivery service.

The vehicle is four meters long, with a moto …

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Jaguar will pause I-Pace production because of battery shortage

2020-02-11T12:27:12-05:00

Jaguar Land Rover plans to stop making the I-Pace electric SUV for a week because of a battery shortage at supplier LG Chem, The Times reported on Sunday.

The production halt will start Monday, February 17th, in Graz, Austria, where contract manufacturer Magna Steyr makes the I-Pace for Jaguar Land Rover. When the I-Paces stop rolling off the line, it will be at least the third time that a battery shortage at LG Chem has affected the production of an electric vehicle.

Back in 2017, Hyundai fell behind on the production of its Ioniq EV because LG Chem reportedly couldn't keep up with demand for its batteries. In April 2019, a supply shortag …

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Jaguar I-Pace gains 12 miles of range in new software update

2019-12-09T17:51:08-05:00

Jaguar is issuing a software update to its first electric car, the I-Pace, which will gift the SUV 12 extra miles of range. The British automaker says it was able to squeeze the extra range out of the electric SUV's 90kWh battery pack in part because of lessons learned in the I-Pace racing series that kicked off its second season last month. Before the update, the I-Pace had an EPA-estimated range of 234 miles on a full battery. But after the update, the I-Pace will be able to travel as far as 246 miles in certain conditions.

The bump in range is likely welcome news to owners who plunked down at least $70,000 on the I-Pace - Jaguar even cal …

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