Transportation
Musk’s SpaceX town in Texas warns residents they may lose right to ‘continue using’ their property
The neighborhood once known as Boca Chica Village is seen near the SpaceX facilities where they build rockets in Brownsville, Texas, on May 3, 2025. Gabriel Cardenas | AFP | Getty Images Starbase, Texas, has notified some residents that they might “lose the right to continue using” their property as they do today, according to […]
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Jeep reveals new Cherokee SUV, confirms hybrid model
2025 Jeep Cherokee SUV Stellantis DETROIT — Jeep on Thursday revealed the first details and image of its new Cherokee SUV, which the company expects to assist in the brand’s turnaround when it arrives later this year. The Stellantis brand said the new midsize SUV will feature a hybrid powertrain option but declined to specify […]
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Boeing to resume airplane deliveries to China next month, ramp up Max production, CEO says
Boeing Co. 737 Max fuselages at the company’s manufacturing facility in Renton, Washington, on April 15, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing‘s airplane deliveries to China will resume next month after handovers were paused amid a trade war with the Trump administration, CEO Kelly Ortberg said Thursday, as he brushed off the impact […]
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United Airlines plans to return to JFK — again — in new partnership with JetBlue
A United Airlines plane takeoff as a JetBlue plane is landing at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, United States on June 8, 2023. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images United Airlines has a new friend in Queens. The airline plans to return to New York’s John F. Kennedy International […]
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Joby Aviation shares pop 20% as electric air taxi maker closes $250 million Toyota investment
Attendees view a Joby Aviation electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft during an event at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California, US, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Air taxi start-up Joby Aviation Inc. today announced it has delivered its first eVTOL to the US Air Force. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Joby […]
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Hybrid leader Toyota targets major growth in plug-in vehicles amid industry’s EV uncertainty
2023 Prius Prime on display, April 6, 2023. Scott Mlyn | CNBC PLANO, Texas — Twenty-five years after introducing many Americans to hybrid vehicles with the Prius, Toyota Motor is targeting significant growth in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or PHEVs. Such vehicles can function as an all-electric vehicle for a certain number of miles before […]
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Tesla’s Europe sales plunge 49% on brand damage, rising competition
Elon Musk interviews on CNBC from the Tesla Headquarters in Texas. CNBC European sales of Tesla vehicles plunged in April, as the U.S. electric carmaker continues to face reputational damage regionally and rising competition. Tesla sold 7,261 cars in Europe in April, down 49% year-on-year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). That drop […]
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It’s the last chance for Southwest plane tickets with two free checked bags, as policy ends in days
Passengers check in for Southwest Airlines flights at Chicago Midway International Airport on Feb. 18, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Set your alarm. Southwest Airlines customers have only one day to go before the company starts charging to check bags for the first time in more than half a century. Starting […]
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United Airlines reaches ‘industry-leading’ labor deal with flight attendants, union says
United Airline flight attendants picketed outside Terminal B at Logan Airport Thursday morning seeking a new contract. John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty Images United Airlines reached an “industry-leading” tentative labor deal for its 28,000 flight attendants, their union said Friday. The deal includes “40% of total economic improvements” in the first year and […]
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Boeing, Justice Department reach deal to avoid prosecution over deadly 737 Max crashes
Ethiopian Federal policemen stand at the scene of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash, near the town of Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 11, 2019. Tiksa Negeri | Reuters The U.S. Justice Department said Friday that it has reached a deal with Boeing to avoid prosecution over two crashes of the […]
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