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AquaLith has its eye on a billion-dollar market opportunity: new types of battery cell components that don’t rely on the scarce metals normally used in lithium-ion battery packs, which are increasingly in demand with the rise of electric vehicles. According to McKinsey & Company, revenue

Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt posed a controversial question at technewss Disrupt 2023: At what point does it still make sense to have human-driven cars in cities? “If you extrapolate forward and you see that [autonomous vehicles] decrease in cost, they continue to improve their safety

Autonomous trucking startup Waabi is committing billions of miles of driverless capacity to the Uber Freight network as part of a 10-year strategic partnership between the two companies. Starting this week, Waabi’s test fleet will begin commercial pilots with shippers on the Uber Freight netw

Cruise is planning to build a winterized version of the Origin, the company’s autonomous vehicle model that is purpose-built without a steering wheel or pedals. “A couple of years from now, we’ll have a new version of our vehicles coming out that is adapted for cold weather,”

Tech companies say they will help cities reach their ambitious decarbonization goals, but increasing public trust and working closely with government partners is key, panelists said during a roundtable on sustainability in cities at technewss Disrupt 2023. These issues were thrown into sharp relie

Uber Eats has confirmed its plans to launch a chatbot function later this year to customers in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada. Initially, the so-called AI assistant will help users find restaurant deals and easily reorder favorites on the app. Later, the assistant will help users meal plan, f

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the personal benefits that Tesla may have provided its CEO Elon Musk since 2017 as part of a criminal probe that is also looking into the use of company funds to build a proposed glass house. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District

The aviation industry is well aware of its carbon footprint, but it’s not an industry where things change quickly. Batteries may be an option for short-range eVTOL use cases, but for anything else, they still weigh too much compared to the amount of energy they can hold. There’s another

Shared micromobility company Bird has acquired competitor Spin from Tier for $19 million, including $10 million in cash, $6 million in a vendor take back and $3 million as a hold back. Tier had purchased Spin from Ford back in March 2022 to expand its presence in the U.S., but Tier has struggled to

Volvo’s last diesel car will roll off the line “by early 2024,” the company said on Tuesday. The writing’s been on the wall for several years. As far back as 2017, the Geely-owned automaker indicated it would wrap up production of diesel cars by around now. A few years lat

Redwood Materials said Tuesday it acquired lithium-ion battery recycler Redux Recycling, a purchase meant to accelerate U.S. company’s expansion into Europe. This is Redwood’s second acquisition since former Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel founded the battery materials and recyclin

The United Auto Workers’ strike against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis is well into its fourth day, with no deal in sight. The strike comes as all three automakers have made aggressive moves to retool existing factories to build electric vehicles. Delays could set back production and del

EV SPAC land is looking as bleak as ever with a pair of filings in the past week showing that money is increasingly hard to come by. Without more capital, we may see a new pileup of crashed electric vehicle companies, so this news is concerning. First up is Arrival. The company’s latest finan