IT総合 May Mobility to test driverless shuttles in Ann Arbor
May Mobility is slowly advancing its driverless capabilities. The startup this week launched a small-scale deployment of...
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IT総合 IT総合 Mitsubishi backs Ample’s radical approach to charging EV batteries
Startup Ample is on a mission to convert commercial fleets into believers in the power of electric vehicle battery swapp...
IT総合 Nuro expands driverless autonomous vehicle testing in push to attract customers
Nuro is rolling out test fleet of its its driverless, passenger-less R3 vehicles across the Bay Area and Houston, two mo...
IT総合 Norwegian startup Factiverse wants to fight disinformation with AI
In the wake of the U.S. 2024 presidential election, one fact became clear: Disinformation proliferated online at a start...
IT総合 Former TuSimple co-founder urges courts to block asset transfer to China
Xiaodi Hou, the co-founder and former CEO of self-driving trucking startup TuSimple, has urged a California district cou...
IT総合 GM’s Cruise to pay $500,000 fine to DOJ, admits submitting false report
Cruise, the autonomous vehicle unit of General Motors, has admitted to submitting a false report with the goal of influe...
IT総合 Chinese autonomous driving startup Pony AI seeks up to $224M in US IPO
Pony AI is inching closer to its initial public offering in the U.S., but as it does so, it continues to drop its minimu...
IT総合 Tesla issues sixth Cybertruck recall in a year
Tesla’s Cybertruck is facing its sixth recall since its launch a year ago. The recall affects 2,431 units, includi...
IT総合 Zoox rolls outs custom robotaxi in San Francisco, Las Vegas
Zoox is testing its custom robotaxis, which are built without a steering wheel or pedals, on public roads in San Francis...
IT総合 What Trump’s win might mean for Elon Musk
Elon Musk — the billionaire CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, and the owner of The Boring Company, Neuralink, and X — took ...
IT総合 Lyft partners with May Mobility, Mobileye to bring autonomous vehicles to the app
It seems Lyft is hoping to catch up to Uber’s string of autonomous vehicle partnerships. Lyft announced Wednesday three ...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s false and misleading election claims have been viewed 2 billion times on X
The world’s richest man buys out one of the most popular social media platforms and uses it as a propaganda and disinfor...
IT総合 DeepRoute raises $100M in push to beat Tesla’s FSD in China
DeepRoute.ai, a Shenzhen-based autonomous driving technology startup, raised $100 million from an unidentified Chinese a...
IT総合 From Lime to Uber to Hertz: Free and discounted Election Day rides
Election Day is nearly here, and if you haven’t already mailed in your ballot or gone in for early voting, you might nee...
IT総合 How national interest startups should be thinking about government contracts
National interest technology can show up in a lot of ways, like in data analysis and cybersecurity, as well as satellite...
IT総合 Ford pauses F-150 Lightning production as Tesla Cybertruck heats up
Ford will pause production of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck starting in mid-November for almost two months a...
IT総合 Aurora Innovation delays commercial autonomous truck launch to 2025
Autonomous vehicle technology startup Aurora Innovation is targeting April 2025 for commercial deployment of its autonom...
IT総合 GM CEO Mary Barra on the politics of EVs, the future of AVs, and moving away from China
“I never thought the propulsion of a vehicle would become a political issue,” GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said on sta...
IT総合 BANF’s smart tires for trucks promise to save fuel and lives
Tire health has a huge impact on a truck’s fuel efficiency and safety on the road. And yet, with all of the arguab...
IT総合 Jon McNeill’s insights on Tesla’s robotaxi and why EV startups fail
Jon McNeill — a former Tesla and Lyft executive and current CEO at DVx Ventures — spread the word last week at the World...
IT総合 Jon McNeill’s lessons on innovation through subtraction
Before Jon McNeill was CEO at VC firm DVx Ventures, he was the president of Tesla and chief operating officer at Lyft. H...
IT総合 Joby launches $200M public offering ahead of 2025 commercial eVTOL release
Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle startup Joby Aviation has launched a public offering to sell up to $200 mi...
IT総合 EVTOL startups just got a big lift from the US government
Federal regulators have cleared the path for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to share U.S. airspace with ...
IT総合 Four takeaways from Pony AI’s IPO filing
Toyota-backed autonomous vehicle company Pony AI has joined the list of Chinese firms going public on the U.S. stock mar...
IT総合 Fluid Truck files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and pursues sale after leadership shakeup
Less than two months after Fluid Truck’s board ousted its sibling co-founders from their executive positions, the compan...
IT総合 Beyond the hype: Why Tesla’s robotaxi future faces regulatory roadblocks
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up he...
IT総合 Waymo offers $3 credit for San Francisco riders going to public transit stations
For the next month, Bay Area riders of Waymo robotaxis can earn a $3 credit whenever they travel to and from certain pub...
IT総合 GM partners with startup Forge Nano to improve EV battery life, performance, and safety
General Motors is working with Forge Nano, a materials science startup, to find new ways to enhance the performance and ...
IT総合 How Tesla’s plans for ‘unsupervised FSD’ and robotaxis could run into red tape
During Tesla’s much-hyped robotaxi reveal event last week, CEO Elon Musk said he expects Tesla to release an “unsupervis...
IT総合 The New York Times has had it with generative AI companies using its content
The New York Times sent a cease and desist letter demanding that Jeff Bezos-backed Perplexity stop accessing and using i...