TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

The deal is a nod toward the direction the online auto market is moving, where even the sale of used cars will require a first-class, seamless user experience. Demand for vehicles, however, has not dropped, leading to skyrocketing prices for used cars. SoftBank-backed Fair puts the brakes on weekly car rentals for Uber drivers.

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MARCH 27, 2024

In the automotive sector for example, the advent of autonomous vehicles has resulted in burgeoning demand for computing power, cloud storage and network bandwidth. FAW’s new Technology Innovation Space is a smart industrial campus for testing intelligent and New Energy Vehicles (NEV).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Just like the automotive industry, aerospace has its sights set on going electric — but flying with battery-powered engines is a tougher proposition than rolling. The air taxi market prepares to take flight. This is a long-term project, but an entire industry doesn’t change overnight.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Nuro recently unveiled its third generation electric delivery robot, the Nuro , which it’s building at a new $40 million manufacturing facility and closed-course test track in southern Nevada. Zhu hints that LA might be Nuro’s next market. Nuro, which has raised more than $2.13

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The BRT is a bus-based public transport system that delivers fast, comfortable and cost-effective services within metropolitan areas. There is a possibility that locally developed electric buses will be among the first to ply the BRT as Opibus and BasiGo — two EV startups in the country — begin tests.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Jona Christians and Laurin Hahn, Sono Motors’ co-founders, weren’t that into cars, but they recognized how much transportation contributes to the burning of fossil fuels and thought that would be a good place to start. before the market closed. The company’s path to market is twofold.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Sono has had to combat a range of challenges since going public in November last year, from a plummeting stock price to switching manufacturing partners, and its path forward to production and delivery will likely continue to be bumpy given current market and supply chain uncertainty. before the market closed on its first day.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Arrival said it will be hiring for a variety of corporate positions, including human resources, marketing, finance and administrative professionals. Arrival becomes latest electric vehicle startup to test the public markets with a SPAC. The SPAC merger is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. A message from reporter Aria Alamalhodaei: “For the time being, your favorite mini-roundup of transportation policy news will be taking an extended hiatus. Tthe transportation world lost one of its leaders this week. A few items before jumping in.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

Xie says that Veo is still operating profitably and sees moving into retail as a good way to expand into new markets. Inrix , the transportation analytics and connected car services, raised $70 million in a financing round from investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Morgan Stanley Tactical Value. Vroom vroom!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The company, which has been testing its vehicles in the greater San Jose area since 2016, shared plans to launch robotaxi operations and build an operations center in the Golden City. The same data shows that AutoX, which only drove around 50,000 miles with a safety operator, did not report any driverless testing of its vehicles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s also a test for the company going public despite a market that’s been unfriendly toward combinations with special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, of late. . million raised by the SPAC was withdrawn — particularly as the SPAC hype gives way in the face of an underperforming market and tighter regulation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

at the time of writing, outpacing broader markets gains earlier in the day. . The company is testing these cells in-house and then sharing the data with partners. By first quarter next year, Hu expects to begin shipping cells directly to automotive companies so they can do their own testing. million. “In

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. The fourth round of the Transit Tech Lab has launched and is looking for technologists to submit ideas on ways to restore customer confidence in public transportation, improve resilience to weather extremes, and further reduce the region’s carbon footprint.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Morai , which provides autonomous vehicle developers with automotive simulation tools to verify the safety and reliability of self-driving systems, raised $20.8 Shift5 raised $50 million in Series B funding to defend transport networks from cyberattacks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tiger Global’s latest investment in India is Vecmocon , a startup building solutions to bring safety and reliability alongside intelligence and health monitoring to light electric vehicles (EVs), addressing concerns that are curtailing the sales of electric scooters in the South Asian market. Some have even caught fire in the recent past.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Autonomous vehicle developers often rely on a combination of simulation and on-road testing, along with reams of datasets that have been annotated by humans, to train and improve the so-called “brain” of the self-driving vehicle. developed software that can understand sensor data as well as a human — a goal not unlike others in the field.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Third – Check out the latest transportation founder interview on TechCrunch+. Automotive mobility group Astara is investing $5 million in GoTo Global’s pre-IPO round. Tier had tried to enter the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Volocopter , a startup out of southern Germany (Bruchsal, specifically) that has been building and testing electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft, has picked up €200 million (about $241 million) in a Series D round of funding. This has played out in other arenas, too, such as the electric scooter market in the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Nothing is for certain yet, but Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said that legislation will be included in the Queen’s Speech on May 10. which makes sense given market availability of the two types of vehicles. miles per hour and automatic lights.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Um, there is a #$@% ton of mobility news to get to, including a few scoops, some investment news, and a new “market map” that takes a deep look into the business of Mobility-as-a-service apps. Deal of the week.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. The capital markets have a way of distracting even the most scrappy founders. NEED TITLE.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Self-driving trucks startup TuSimple signaled it is close to testing its system without a human safety operator on public roads before the end of the year. Kodiak Robotics, for example, has only begun driver-out testing on closed tracks. “This test phase will inform and validate our safety case.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Other investors SBI Investment, Tokyu Land Corporation, Kushu Electric Power, Seika Corporation, JOIN (Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development) and exiting investor Venture Lab Investment also joined in the round. . The global drone surveillance market is expected to grow to $476.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. The capital markets have a way of distracting even the most scrappy founders. NEED TITLE.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. The capital markets have a way of distracting even the most scrappy founders. NEED TITLE.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

million), followed by a group of Chinese financial and automotive technology investors, organized by investment professional Jingjing Xu, and educational and entertainment game development company Schell Games, which has partnered with holoride in the past to create content. . TechCrunch got to test out its in-car virtual reality system.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center assemble the new shape memory alloy rover tire prior to testing in the Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory. They’re targeting the cycling market first with their METL tire, which is set to become available to the general public by early next year. Image Credits: NASA.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Use cases for the tech include more accurate location for smartphone apps for navigation or location tracking (for example for running and other sports); to help companies with their navigation services (for example for transportation or fleet management); and for better GPS security overall. That startup eventually got acquired by Broadcom.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

The company says Usher Transport, one of its clients, says it has seen a 32% annual reduction in accidents after implementing the Smart Dashcam, DRIVE risk score and Safety Hub, products that the company offers to increase safety. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. This week it’s a dual-hosted event with transportation editor Kirsten Korosec and transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan steering the ship, er, car. Gear that it had to design, manufacture, ship and market in an effort to make its money back.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. On-the-ground infrastructure, like vertiports and chargers, is turning into its own business unit, and companies like Archer , Hyundai and Volocopter are exploring ways to integrate air mobility into a city’s existing transport networks.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Most self-driving vehicle companies, like Cruise, Waymo and Waabi, use synthetic data for training and testing perception models with speed and a level of control that’s impossible with data collected from the real world. Parallel Domain’s synthetic data platform consists of two modes: training and testing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The company raised an $11 million seed round in 2019 , and since then has tested and deployed several of its Pelican small aircraft, which can take off, perform complex spraying patterns and land entirely autonomously. It can be checked and operated by a single person. “But we’re design freezing it,” Norcia said. and Brazil.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Autoliv , a Swedish automotive safety supplier, is working on bike and e-bike helmets equipped with airbag technology. Honda has teamed up with Japanese lifestyle and home brand Muji to collaborate on a minimalist e-bike design for the Chinese market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

“While the market has quickly turned to favor the buyers, the good news is that it isn’t broken,” according to Jeremy Abelson and Jacob Sonnenberg of Irving Investors. Cram downs are a character test for VCs and founders. Cram downs are a character test for VCs and founders. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

As a greater share of the transportation market becomes electrified, companies have started to grapple with how to dispose of the thousands of tons of used electric vehicle batteries that are expected to come off the roads by the end of the decade. Photo: Battery Resourcers).

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