IT総合 The Wild West of robotaxis: Will Texas be a regulatory haven or chaos unleashed?
All eyes might be on the California robotaxi market, but Texas is the one shaping up to be the next hot testbed of the t...
Rebecca Bellan
IT総合 IT総合 Refurbished e-bike marketplace Upway raised $30M at a higher valuation
Upway, the French startup that refurbishes and resells electric bikes and recently launched in the U.S., has brought on ...
IT総合 Feds want speed reduction tech in every new car. Are American drivers ready?
On a Saturday afternoon in January 2022, a 2018 Dodge Challenger ran through a stop sign in Las Vegas, picked up the pac...
IT総合 What you need to know about Google’s search antitrust case
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of star...
IT総合 GM inserts exec at Cruise as safety review expands, manual self driving paused
General Motors is taking a more active role in shaping the safety culture at Cruise, following a string of incidents tha...
IT総合 Upgraded Tesla Cyberquad for Kids back on sale after safety recall
The Tesla Cyberquad for Kids, a $1,900 mini on-road ATV inspired by the yet-to-be delivered Cybertruck, is once again av...
IT総合 Uber takes steps to combat unfair driver deactivations
Uber is introducing new features geared toward addressing the issues of unfair deactivations that ride-hail and delivery...
IT総合 More from the US v Google trial: vertical search, pre-installs and the case of Firefox/Yahoo
We’re nearly two months into the Justice Department’s landmark antitrust case against Google — one of the bi...
IT総合 Geely’s Zeekr gears up for US IPO, but China influence remains a concern
If Zeekr's IPO goes through, it’ll be the first major Chinese listing in the country in nearly two years, following Chin...
IT総合 California regulators weigh a do-over for Cruise’s robotaxi permit
California regulators have issued an order to halt the implementation of Cruise’s permit to charge for robotaxi ri...
IT総合 Ridepanda’s shift from D2C micromobility platform to corporate e-bike supplier
Ridepanda launched in 2020 as a direct-to-consumer micromobility platform, a marketplace for high quality e-scooters and...
IT総合 Lyft picks comfort over sharing in bid to compete with Uber
Lyft is introducing a “more affordable sort of higher-end ride” in an attempt to offer ride-hail products th...
IT総合 Lyft’s price war with Uber yields mixed results
Lyft’s strategy of slashing ride-hail fares to compete with Uber has resulted in slow and steady gains for the company, ...
IT総合 Gogoro’s Smartscooters can now be unlocked via Apple Wallet
Gogoro, the Taiwanese two-wheeler battery swapping giant, says that its smart electric scooters can now be unlocked and ...
IT総合 Lucid revises 2023 production amid softening demand for luxury EVs
Lucid has revised its 2023 production outlook amid softening demand for luxury electric vehicles, the company said Tuesd...
IT総合 GM halts production of Cruise Origin robotaxi amid suspended operations
Cruise is pausing production of its purpose-built robotaxi, the Origin — the autonomous vehicle company’s la...
IT総合 Revel ends moped sharing, focuses on EV charging and ride-hail
Electric mobility startup Revel is officially shutting down its shared moped business in New York City and San Francisco...
IT総合 Uber and Lyft pay $328M to settle wage-theft complaints in New York
Uber and Lyft have agreed to pay drivers in New York a combined $328 million to settle wage-theft complaints. The settle...
IT総合 Flexport acquires technology of former digital freight unicorn Convoy
Supply chain logistics platform Flexport is acquiring the assets of shuttered digital freight network Convoy, according ...
IT総合 5 things we learned so far about the Google antitrust case
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified Monday in the U.S. government’s antitrust trial against the company. The executive de...
IT総合 Layoffs at VW’s Cariad further delay software launch in Porsche, Audi models
Volkswagen’s software unit Cariad will delay the launch of its new software architecture yet again as it deals wit...
IT総合 Posts with misinformation on X become ‘ineligible for revenue share’ says Musk
X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform’s crowd-sourced fact-checking system, will become R...
IT総合 Ford delays $12B in EV investments as automaker wrestles with demand
Ford is delaying about $12 billion in planned investments on EVs, including construction of a second battery plant with ...
IT総合 Will X’s addition of audio and video calling create stickiness in the app?
Elon Musk announced Wednesday that an early version of video and audio calling is now available on X, formerly known as ...
IT総合 Ford and UAW negotiators reach ‘tentative agreement’ to end strike
Ford has reached a “tentative agreement on a new labor contract” with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union fo...
IT総合 Pony.ai gets $100M, establishes JV with Saudi Arabia’s Neom
Chinese autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai has scored $100 million from Neom, Saudi Arabia’s futuristic city and d...
IT総合 California agency pulls Cruise’s commercial robotaxi permit following DMV action
The California Public Utilities Commission has suspended Cruise’s authority to carry and charge passengers for its...
IT総合 Trevor Milton to reimburse Nikola $165M per arbitration proceeding
Electric and hydrogen-powered heavy truck maker Nikola was awarded $165 million from its founder and former executive ch...
IT総合 Tesla ‘digs its own grave with the Cybertruck,’ Convoy collapses and Rivian scores a win at Rebelle
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from ...
IT総合 Waymo’s new simulator helps researchers train more realistic agents
Autonomous vehicle companies use simulators to train their self-driving systems and teach them how to react to “ag...