Uber founder Travis Kalanick declared his intention to roll out ride-sharing on the existing platform, posing a direct threat to companies like Lyft and SideCar that operate on a community ride-sharing model.
The hybrid version of the Boxer engine weighs around 300 pounds more than the standard gas-only version. In low-speed situations, the car can run on electricity, and it can start on electricity.
Joyride is building a voice-activated mobile applications that turns the millions of hours Americans spend driving into a safe, entertaining experience.
Just days after the Avis officially acquires Zipcar, a small number of zipcars pop up at NYC regional airports.
Splitsecnd's hardware plugs into car cigarette lighters, making automatic emergency response systems accessible to drivers without smartphones or luxury cars.
RepairPal.com uses data to provide consumers with credible information about car repairs, and it received $13 million to build out its product and network.
#IM48 is a road trip for people with ideas. Four guys, spending four months traveling across America to put on events that encourage people to bring to life their ideas.
The Tata Nano has never really taken off in India. Perhaps that's because it's perfect for the U.S. market.
Founders Dwight Crow and Christopher Berner were acqui-hired by Facebook today. Terms were not disclosed, but what is clear is that Facebook is not getting into the business of helping you buy and sell cars.
Google may have a self-driving car in the lab.
But Chinese automotive company BYD has a car you can buy today ... with an actual, real, operational remote control.
Getaround, the car-sharing marketplace that makes it dead easy to take a spin in a stranger’s car, has pulled in $13.9 million in first round funding from an all-star cast of investors: Menlo Ventures’ Shervin Pishevar, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, …
High-risk drivers cost insurance firms 250 percent more than low-risk drivers. Now, tracking technology is helping insurance firm Progressive identify degrees of driver riskiness that can help the company personalize fees … potentially reducing your costs by $150/year.
Or costing …
Mini is about to become the first mass production car with built-in streaming music, courtesy of German startup Aupeo. Aupeo bills itself as “Pandora for the rest of the world”, providing curated radio stations and a personal station based on …
