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Autonomous delivery robot startup Nuro will lay off 30%, or about 340 employees, across the company as part of a restructuring meant to extend its capital runway, according to the company. Earlier this week, Nuro co-founders Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu explained in a blog post that the company wo

Toyota Japan has apologized after admitting to leaving millions of customers’ vehicle details on the public internet for a decade. The car maker said in a notice that it will notify about 2.15 million customers whose personal and vehicle information were left exposed to the internet after a &

Peer-to-peer car-sharing company Getaround said Thursday it will acquire the assets of HyreCar, another car-sharing marketplace, for $9.45 million. Getaround expects to realize up to $75 million of run rate annualized gross booking value from the deal, which the company says will contribute to posi

Bird’s first-quarter earnings show a company struggling to maintain ridership and revenue — two legs of the profitability stool for the shared micromobility market. Bird did manage to cut costs — that would be the third leg — but it wasn’t enough to convince investors that the sco

Software, it turns out, is hard for automakers. And building a so-called software-defined car — the term du jour in automotive circles — is even harder. Software development problems have led to executive shakeups at VW Group, bricked vehicles, recalls and generally unpleasant vehicle experienc

It wasn’t that long ago that self-driving trucks company TuSimple was on a tear — raising funds, locking in partnerships and hitting some development milestones that seemed to push it to the front of the AV pack. A string of internal scandals and executive upheaval that resulted in the oust

Dutch e-bike maker VanMoof is refreshing its entry-level lineup with a pair of new bikes available in some very springy colors. The X4 and S4, out this month, retain the frame and philosophy of VanMoof’s previous X3 and S3 e-bikes while trimming some of the complexities that made those models

Hyundai Motor has announced that it plans to invest $2.45 billion (200 billion Indian rupees) over the next 10 years in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to bolster its plans for electric vehicles in the country. On Thursday, the South Korean company signed an agreement (a memorandum of under

Google announced Wednesday that it’s working with Cisco, Microsoft and Zoom to bring conferencing into vehicles via Android Auto — a feature that may just keep folks from attempting to drive while balancing their phone on their lap with a video conferencing app open. Yes, we see you drivers

Google introduced Wednesday at its Google I/O 2023 event a number of new features and services designed for cars, including video conferencing, gaming and YouTube, as the tech company continues its drive further into the automotive world. The company has been making inroads into automotive via two

Drone delivery startup Zipline is expanding its U.S. customer base across healthcare, restaurant and retail verticals. Global health and wellness brand GNC, Seattle-based pizza restaurant Pagliacci Pizza and medical courier service Associated Couriers will all start using Zipline’s recently a

Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is in the midst of a restructuring that will result in layoffs and shift resources away from commercial operations and toward R&D. This is the second time in less than a year that Nuro — a darling of the AV world that has raised $2.13 billion — has laid off

Cruise is rolling out its self-driving cars to more cities — specifically, to Houston and Dallas as it expands its Texas-based presence. Cruise already started testing its vehicles in Austin at the end of last year, and announced plans to begin testing its Origin built-for-purpose robotaxis t

Rivian may still be burning through cash, but it has managed to narrow losses and generate more revenue as the automaker sells more of its EVs while paring down costs. Rivian reported Tuesday $661 million in revenue in the first quarter, a nearly seven-fold increase from the same period last year w