The Ojai is a Zeekr minivan carrying Waymo's sixth-generation sensor stack, and it is the company's first real attempt at hardware that pencils out. Tariffs are working against it.
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Regulators recalled roughly 4.3 million cars because an emergency release was coloured to disappear. Labels are the fix until 2027, when the hardware has to change.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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Waymo's plan puts Jaguar I-PACEs on Singapore roads within months and a year of manual driving in 2027, and the Land Transport Authority has said deployment will not outrun its ability to retrain affected drivers.
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The company will show the Li 6 in Paris and start selling in the fourth quarter, bringing only its battery models because the EU's duty on Chinese electric cars catches the extended-range powertrain that is its business at home.
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Alphabet's robotaxi arm spent years letting its trip counts do the talking. Last week it published a technical case that camera-only, end-to-end driving is not safe enough, timed a week ahead of a two-seater with no steering wheel.
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The blog post and Axios interview landed a week before Tesla's Cybercab event, and the same Tuesday morning Waymo added three markets, putting deployment scale behind an argument written for regulators.
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The Ojai vans picking up riders in San Francisco and Phoenix are built in Ningbo and land under a 127.5 percent tariff, a cost a fleet operator can spread over years of paid trips and a dealership cannot.
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SAMR ordered 2.98 million Teslas fixed with warning stickers and a window-dropping software update. Hidden electronic exterior handles are banned in China from 2027.
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The pack figure is 500 Wh/kg, the brands are named, and four battery makers are aiming at the same year. What a pilot actually proves is the open question.
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The first hardware disclosure from the leading robotaxi operator turns an autonomy pitch into a supply-chain document, with 20x compute growth in eight years and redundancy it calls non-negotiable.
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A Forbes account puts the Zeekr-built Ojai at about $38,000 before more than 125 percent in stacked duties. Waymo is buying in volume anyway, which is a statement about assumed margin.
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