IT総合 Rivian’s reportedly sitting on a stockpile of tariff-free batteries
Rivian built up a stockpile of batteries for its trucks, SUVs, and commercial vans before and after the election of Dona...
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IT総合 IT総合 Amazon’s first 27 internet satellites launch to space
The first 27 satellites in Amazon’s effort to create a space-based internet network have finally made it to orbit,...
IT総合 Mysterious financier asks judge to stop Canoo asset sale
A mysterious investor out of London has asked a bankruptcy judge in Delaware to stop the sale of EV startup Canoo’...
IT総合 Slate Auto eyes former Indiana printing plant for its EV truck production
Slate Auto, the buzzy new EV startup that broke stealth this week, is close to locking in a former printing plant locate...
IT総合 Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck that is decidedly anti-Tesla
A new American electric vehicle startup called Slate Auto has made its debut, and it’s about as anti-Tesla as it g...
IT総合 Faraday Future founder named co-CEO three years after being sidelined by internal probe
Troubled electric vehicle startup Faraday Future’s board of directors has appointed founder Jia Yueting as the com...
IT総合 Anti-Musk protests are now an official risk to Tesla’s business
Protests against Elon Musk and Tesla have been spreading around the world thanks to the CEO’s involvement in the T...
IT総合 Elon Musk says he may keep doing DOGE work for ‘the remainder’ of Trump’s term
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he may keep doing work with the Department of Government Efficiency through the remainder of Pr...
IT総合 Tesla profits drop 71% on weak sales and anti-Elon Musk sentiment
Tesla’s flailing sales figures have put the company closer to the red than it has been in years, according to financial ...
IT総合 Bezos-backed startup designed an EV that can change like a ‘Transformer’
Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Auto has planted multiple concept versions of its EV on the streets of California. It’s a ...
IT総合 Bezos-backed EV startup pitched investors on ‘Transformer’-like customization
Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Auto has planted multiple concept versions of its EV on the streets of California. It’s a ...
IT総合 Tesla reportedly delays launch of new low-cost model by months
Tesla is pushing back the promised launch of a more affordable EV by months, according to a report from Reuters. The new...
IT総合 Former Tesla supply chain leaders create Atomic, an AI inventory solution
Tesla famously struggled to scale up production of the Model 3 sedan in 2018 — so much so that CEO Elon Musk said ...
IT総合 Conifer locks down $20M seed round for its ‘drop-in’ electric hub motor
A handful of engineers who worked at Lucid Motors and on Apple’s electric car project have launched a new startup ...
IT総合 Nikola founder Trevor Milton accused of trying to derail bankruptcy case
A court hearing on the sale of bankrupt electric truck startup Nikola’s assets to Lucid Motors was going smoothly ...
IT総合 Blue Water Autonomy comes out of stealth promising autonomous naval ships
A new ship-building startup called Blue Water Autonomy has emerged from stealth with the promise of developing captain-l...
IT総合 GM cuts 500 jobs because of weak demand for BrightDrop electric vans
General Motors is laying off 500 workers at a factory in Canada because of weak demand for its all-electric BrightDrop v...
IT総合 Lucid Motors wins bankruptcy auction for Nikola’s Arizona factory and other assets
EV startup Lucid Motors has emerged as a surprise winner in the bankruptcy auction for electric trucking company Nikola&...
IT総合 Bezos-backed EV startup Slate Auto’s pickup truck spotted in the wild
Just one day after TechCrunch revealed that Jeff Bezos is backing a secretive EV startup called Slate Auto, an early ver...
IT総合 Rebooted Digg launches early-access community with $5 fee
The reboot of early-internet social news site Digg is underway. Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis...
IT総合 NHTSA’s self-driving safety staff reportedly ‘disproportionally affected’ by DOGE cuts
The cuts that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency made at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administ...
IT総合 Canoo CEO can buy bankrupt EV startup’s assets, judge rules
The sale of bankrupt EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO has been okayed by the judge overseeing the case. After evalua...
IT総合 Inside the EV startup secretly backed by Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is funding a secretive EV startup based in Michigan called Slate Auto that could start production as soon as ...
IT総合 Nikola founder Trevor Milton wants to buy the bankrupt startup’s assets
Nikola founder Trevor Milton, who was recently pardoned after being convicted of securities fraud, is trying to buy the ...
IT総合 Rivian starts a challenging year with a big slip in deliveries
Rivian delivered just 8,640 vehicles in the first three months of 2024, the company’s worst quarterly mark since t...
IT総合 Blue Origin prepping second New Glenn launch in ‘late spring’
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is preparing for a second launch of its New Glenn mega-rocket in “late...
IT総合 EV truck maker Harbinger accuses Canoo of hiding assets in bankruptcy sale
Electric trucking company Harbinger has filed an objection to the sale of Canoo’s assets to its CEO, potentially t...
IT総合 Nikola founder Trevor Milton pardoned by Trump
Trevor Milton, the founder of bankrupt hydrogen trucking startup Nikola who was convicted of fraud, has been pardoned by...
IT総合 Trump’s auto tariffs are a gift to Tesla
President Trump is slapping 25% tariffs on all cars imported to the United States, including from our immediate North Am...
IT総合 Tesla recalls Cybertrucks for exterior panels that fall off
Tesla is issuing a recall for around 46,000 Cybertrucks sold to date because of an exterior steel trim panel on the side...