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On an early April morning, around 4 am, a San Francisco Fire Department truck responding to a fire tried to pass a doubled-parked garbage truck by using the opposing lane. But a traveling autonomous vehicle, operated by the General Motors subsidiary Cruise without anyone inside, was blocking its path. While a human might have reversed to clear the lane, the Cruise car stayed put. The fire truck only passed the blockage when the garbage truck driver ran from their work to move their vehicle.“This incident slowed SFFD…

You can never be sure who you are going to meet when you interview an actor. Will it be the leery landowner with prosthetic teeth and nice little holiday mansion, the lank-haired, hand-wringing vicar, or perhaps the phantasmagorical green man who lets it all hang out? Rory Kinnear is all of these – and more besides – in his latest film, Men, a creepy symbolist horror mashup written and directed by Alex Garland. But the man who has just walked across London to be photographed and interviewed – no minders in tow – looks…

Tesla, along with other electric vehicle companies and environmental groups, asked the Biden administration to invest in charging infrastructure for electric buses, trucks, and other medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. The groups want the administration to allocate 10 percent of the money for electric vehicle charging in the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed last November — a pot that includes $7.5 billion — to go toward infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, they said in a letter to Energy Secretary…

The electric pickup trucks are coming. Ford has officially started delivering the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck to retail and fleet customers. At Electrek, we have been talking for years about how electric pickup trucks are needed to accelerate EV adoption in the United States, purely because of how big the pickup segment is in the country. After years, it is finally happening. Rivian started delivering the R1T electric pickup late last year. It is still slowly ramping up production and already has a few…

Just moments after the deep parade of camperized pickups and large trucks ended at Overland Expo West 2022, an equally compelling pickup made its debut across the Atlantic. Isuzu UK used this year's Commercial Vehicle Show to introduce the fully ruggedized D-Max Arctic Trucks AT35 Basecamp, a highly maneuverable light camper pickup ready to bushwhack through dense forest and burrow through canyons that would stop larger trucks and motorhomes in their tracks. The build features some of the latest vehicle-camping equipment,…

Mercedes-Benz eActros has a range of up to 400km Daimler Truck will become a major anchor shareholder in German high tech engineering company Manz through a capital increase of around 10 percent, subject to approval by the relevant antitrust authorities. Both companies have signed a cooperation agreement to establish a pilot line making lithium-ion battery cells and assembling batteries at Daimler Truck’s Mannheim site. Both…

If your dad is Kanye West, ​​​why be chauffeured around in luxurious foreign whips when you can ride to school in a fire truck?Kanye looked to cement his status as the world’s coolest dad in the latest episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians, which features a wholesome moment where Ye surprised his kids with an over-the-top ride to school.North West, 8, alongside 6-year-old Saint, 4-year-old Chicago, and 3-year-old Psalm are seen walking out of the house to discover a red fire truck brought in courtesy of the Hollywood Fire…

Jeremy Renner, best known for playing Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is currently in India. The actor has been sharing pictures from Alwar and Delhi on social media over the last few days, and was also spotted by fans shooting with Anil Kapoor. He is in the country to shoot his Disney+ reality series Rennervations. On Wednesday and Thursday, Jeremy shared a new set of images from his India trip, which show him hanging off a truck and being amazed by a house lizard. Also read: Anil Kapoor shoots with Marvel’s…

Five years after it was announced, Tesla has opened up reservations for its all-electric Semi truck, scheduled to go into production in 2023. On the company’s website, you can make a reservation by paying $5,000 upfront, then $15,000 within 10 days. (Spotted via InsideEVs.) A word of warning, though: the $5k is refundable, but it seems the $20k ain’t. Now, you’d be forgiven for having forgotten all about Tesla’s Semi, which was announced in 2017 with futuristic concept art and envious specs. The company says the truck…

The Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD) has deployed what is believed to be the first electric fire truck in North America. Rosenbauer, an Austrian-based fire engine manufacturer, claimed to have built “the world’s first fully electric drive fire truck”: the Rosenbauer RTX. Back in 2019, we reported on them bringing a prototype on a tour of North America to show it to some fire departments. The Menlo Park Fire District was the first interested in the truck and aimed to secure the first order, but the LAFD…