Investigators from the National Traffic Safety Board will examine a crash that happened Monday, when a Tesla Model S Tesla plowed into the back of a fire truck on a freeway near Culver City, California. The field investigation will focus on both driver and vehicle...

Michigan Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters on Tuesday led a bipartisan effort urging congressional appropriators to include “robust funding” for the testing and development of self-driving vehicles in any government spending agreement for 2018. They are referring...

For safety advocates, the promise of expedited accident-prevention technology doesn't justify relaxed standards. Two days after Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao discussed the federal strategy to regulate autonomous vehicles at the Detroit auto show, Joan...

Battery makers must rethink their technology if predictions for a wave of self-driving vehicles pan out, according to one of the inventors of the lithium-ion battery. In addition to focusing on making batteries more powerful to extend the driving range of single-owner...

Automakers with ambitious plans to roll out more than a hundred new battery-powered models in the next five years appear to be forgetting one little thing: Drivers aren’t yet buzzed about the new technology. Electric cars -- which today comprise only 1 percent of auto...