SmartHop raises a $12M Series A to ease trucking logistics
If you are a founder and launched a startup last February of 2020 just before the pandemic hit, then you may have felt like you were living the ultimate business nightmare. But if your company serves to stabilize the supply-chain business, then, in fact, you may have hit the ground running at just
Hyundai shrinks its ‘walking car’ robot to carry cargo, get rides from drones
Hyundai Motor Group is back with a new “walking car” robot that can use its wheels to roll along a path or stand up and navigate tougher terrain on its legs. This time, the concept is designed to carry cargo and is small enough to be carried by a drone.
The TIGER robot — short for tra
Audi’s new 2022 e-tron GT is a real electric performance sedan, not just another electrified crossover
Audi revealed Tuesday the 2022 e-tron Quattro GT and its higher-performing sibling the RS e-tron GT — flagships of the German automaker’s growing electric vehicle portfolio and its first departure from the crossovers and SUVs that have so far dominated the lineup.
The Audi e-tron GT and RS
Supersonic jet company Aerion partners with NASA on high-speed point-to-point travel
Aerion has been working on ushering in a new era of commercial supersonic flight for nearly a decade now, and the company just revealed that it has signed a new partnership with NASA to put that experience to use in the pursuit of supersonic point-to-point travel — the technical name for putt
Aurora strikes deal with Toyota, Denso to develop, test self-driving Sienna minivans
Aurora has reached a deal with Toyota and auto-parts supplier Denso to develop and test vehicles equipped with the self-driving startup’s technology, beginning with a fleet of Toyota Sienna minivans.
Engineering teams from Aurora and Toyota will work together to design and build the self-driv
Tesla summoned by Chinese regulators for quality concerns
Tesla, which is seeing rapid growth in China as it ramps up local manufacturing capacity, has been called upon by the Chinese government for talks over quality issues in its electric cars.
A group of Chinese authorities, including the country's top market regulator, cyberspace watchdog and tran
Micromobility startup Helbiz to go public via a SPAC, and will expand into ghost kitchens
Micromobility startup Helbiz, which now operates across Europe and the USA, is merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to become a publicly listed company, giving it a war chest to potentially roll-up smaller competitors in the space, as well as the resources to expand into “
The Station: Uber slurps up Drizly, Ford doubles its EV budget and Rad Power Bikes plots an expansion
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Amazon begins testing customer deliveries using Rivian electric vans
Amazon has started making deliveries to customers in Los Angeles using electric vans designed and built by Rivian.
The electric vans, which are part of Amazon’s 2040 climate pledge, won’t go into series production until the end of the year, according to an update Wednesday by the compan
Metromile says a website bug let a hacker obtain driver license numbers
Car insurance startup Metromile said it has fixed a security flaw on its website that allowed a hacker to obtain driver license numbers.
The San Francisco-based insurance startup disclosed the security breach in its latest 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Tesla recalls 135,000 vehicles over touchscreen failures
Own a Tesla Model S or Model X? It might have a recall, and it’s serious.
Tesla today issued one of its largest recalls to date, covering roughly 135,000 Model S and Model X. The touchscreen is the concern.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA
Data automotive startup Otonomo to go public via SPAC
Otonomo, the cloud-based software startup that help companies capture and monetize connected car data, is headed to the public market. The Israeli-based startup said Monday it has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition company Software Acquisition Group Inc. II with a valuation of $1.4 b
The Station: AutoX meets a robotaxi milestone, Spin adds a third wheel and Lime embraces mopeds
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Ford vehicles will be powered by Google’s Android operating system
Millions of Ford and Lincoln-branded vehicles will be powered by Android operating system beginning in 2023 as part of a six-year partnership announced Monday that will bring embedded Google apps and services to drivers.
Ford and Google said as part of the partnership they will establish a new coll