Elon Musk's company has boosted its offering from the original US$1.5 billion.

New Zealand won't follow the UK's commitment to ban petrol and diesel cars from 2040.

Penetration of automation in the economy is happening, but at a slower pace than expected.

Demand for Tesla's Model S sedans and Model X vehicles appears to be plateauing.

Electric vehicle owners being recruited for project to boost uptake and busting myths.

Apple is leasing a small fleet of cars from Hertz to test self-driving technology.

Hyundai and its affiliate Kia have been ordered to recall around 240,000 cars.

Uber is laying out aggressive plans to get closer to its first flight.

Tesla recalled 53,000 Model S and Model Xs to replace faulty electronic parking brakes

Elon Musk, the clean-energy evangelist, has the ear of a surprising fellow in Washington: President Donald Trump.

A Tesla driver was stranded in Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas after the car's keyless control app suddenly stopped working.

A year and a half after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alleged Volkswagen had installed software to circumvent emissions

Is aircraft powered by fans the next revolution in aviation?

An investigation reveals that large consumer companies may not know where exactly the raw materials come from.

Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, has made a lot of enemies during his time in business.

The initiative represents some 1,450 vehicles - a 75 per cent increase in the total number of EVs on New Zealand roads today.

Following the announcement of a driverless transport shuttle at Christchurch Airport, expert predicts hundreds of self-drive cars on our roads within the year.

Ask and you shall receive: Elon Musk implored his employees boost sales to raise capital for the production of the Model 3. They've delivered.

The first official trial of autonomous vehicles is set to hit New Zealand roads in November.

Should the first autonomous cars have a steering wheels and pedals, or not?

The Tesla Model S sedan is now the third-fastest car in the world, the luxury electric automaker announces.

COMMENT: You actually don't need to be that attentive to drive safely.

Ford says its vision of a driverless Uber is only five years away.

COMMENT: We ought to remember the "magic" hits the market long before they live up to their promise.

Transport represents 26 per cent of America's total greenhouse gas emissions.

I knew Tesla had a problem when everyone started telling me to "be safe."

An crash in China has raises fresh questions about new car autopilots.

Tesla is expanding retail operations as it targets production of 500,000 vehicles by 2018.

Jaguar has rocketed to the front of an increasingly listless crowd of vehicles in America.

Electric luxury carmaker Tesla Motors missed revenue and earnings projections in its second quarter report.