Demand for electric Porsche Taycan surging, CEO says they’ll build more

Porsche hasn’t built its first battery-electric car, the Taycan sedan, but it already plans to increase production. The German brand’s CEO Oliver Blume told WirtschaftsWoche in a report last Friday that strong demand has led to increased production. Blume said the added production will be split between the standard Taycan sedan and the Cross…

Waymo self-driving service won’t launch in 2018 as promised

Waymo won’t launch a public self-driving car service this year, the company admitted Wednesday. Instead, the self-driving provider will offer a small-scale service to existing volunteers that have already been screened, called Waymo One. The service is a step toward putting eventual autonomy. Waymo One will be offered only to users that the…

Rivian’s third model to be rally-raid style performance car

Rivian is fresh off of its two high-profile debuts at the 2018 LA Auto Show where it showed an electric pickup truck and SUV, but there’s a third model in the works and it should delight enthusiasts: it’s a rally-raid style performance car. Rivian CEO and founder RJ Scaringe told Autocar last week that the …