IT総合 Chinese AV startup Pony AI boosts its IPO goal to $260M
Pony AI, the Chinese autonomous vehicle startup that’s looking to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange, now want...
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IT総合 IT総合 VW taps former Rivian exec to run US business
Volkswagen of America has a new CEO: Rivian’s recently departed chief commercial officer Kjell Gruner. The appoint...
IT総合 Las Vegas Sheriff tells a16z partners what’s next on his wish list: AI for bodycams
Vegas police received funding for tech like drones and license plate readers from Ben Horowitz. Now it wants AI to go th...
IT総合 General Motors slashes another 1,000 jobs to cut costs
General Motors is laying off nearly 1,000 workers in the U.S. as part of a cost-cutting bid, just three months after cut...
IT総合 The Rivian-Volkswagen joint venture deal is now up to $5.8B
Rivian and Volkswagen Group have finalized a multi-billion-dollar joint venture to develop software, paving the way to l...
IT総合 Monarch Tractor lays off 10% in restructuring towards software and licensing AV tech
Monarch Tractor has laid off around 10% of its workforce as part of a restructuring that will see it prioritize non-agri...
IT総合 Lucid Motors starts taking orders for its existential Gravity SUV
Lucid Motors has officially started taking orders for its electric Gravity SUV, a critically important vehicle that̵...
IT総合 Canoo’s CFO and top lawyer are the latest executives to leave
EV startup Canoo has lost its chief financial officer and its head lawyer, the latest in a string of executive departure...
IT総合 Waymo’s latest funding round boosts it to a $45B valuation
Waymo recently closed a $5.6 billion Series C funding round led by parent company Alphabet and joined by a who’s w...
IT総合 Rivian’s software boss is ‘super excited’ about third-party apps
Rivian’s chief software officer Wassym Bensaid opened up at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 last week about his thoughts o...
IT総合 Rivian’s chief software officer says in-car buttons are ‘an anomaly’
The trend of big touchscreens in cars has left many yearning for the not-so-distant days when most user interactions hap...
IT総合 Zoox co-founder on Tesla self-driving: ‘they don’t have technology that works’
Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson doesn’t believe Tesla will launch a robotaxi ride-hailing service in Califo...
IT総合 Scout Motors EVs will use Rivian-VW software and architecture
VW’s new offshoot EV company Scout Motors, which revealed its first two vehicles last week, will use the software ...
IT総合 Gecko Materials wants to sell you the next Velcro
It looks fake, or at least like a good illusion: There’s Gecko Materials founder Capella Kerst dangling a full win...
IT総合 Mary Barra still thinks GM will make an AV with no steering wheel
General Motors CEO Mary Barra still believes an autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel and pedals is “definitel...
IT総合 Infinite Machine raises $9M a16z-led round to convince Americans to buy scooters
Infinite Machine turned many heads when it revealed its metallic, cyberpunk-style electric scooter in 2023. Now one of S...
IT総合 Rental car startup Kyte slashes staff and shrinks to two markets in bid for survival
Rental car startup Kyte, which bills itself as the “best alternative to Hertz,” is pulling out of almost all...
IT総合 Waymo raises $5.6B from Alphabet, a16z, Silver Lake, and more
Waymo has closed a $5.6 billion Series C funding round led by parent company Alphabet and joined by a who’s who of...
IT総合 Tesla’s $25,000 EV flip-flop, explained
The idea of a $25,000 Tesla has persisted for years — in part, perhaps, because CEO Elon Musk said he was “very co...
IT総合 Zero Motorcycles is raising $120 million
Electric motorcycle company Zero is in the process of closing a new funding round for a little bit more than $120 millio...
IT総合 This new UK startup is building classic-style cars with a modern EV twist
When U.K. custom electric car creator RBW showed off its Roadster and GT models at Monterey Car Week this year, the vehi...
IT総合 Tesla is testing a robotaxi service that Elon Musk claims will launch next year
Elon Musk said he hopes to launch a service that will let people hail self-driving Tesla vehicles in California and Texa...
IT総合 Tesla Cybertruck pushes past Ford Mach-E to become third best-selling EV in America
Tesla’s Cybertruck was the third best-selling electric vehicle in the United States in the third quarter, beating ...
IT総合 Wayve starts testing its buzzy end-to-end self-driving tech in the US
Buzzy, well-funded U.K. startup Wayve is starting to test its self-learning automated driving software in San Francisco,...
IT総合 Nevoya wants to break the EV truck adoption logjam
Los Angeles is known for glitz, but there’s also a lot of grit in the air — literally. Thousands of containe...
IT総合 Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software under investigation by federal safety regulator
The U.S. automotive safety regulator has opened a new investigation into Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software...
IT総合 Fisker owners get help with recall repairs as court approves liquidation plan
Fisker’s plan to liquidate its assets has been accepted by the bankruptcy court in Delaware. And with it, the issu...
IT総合 TezLab launches new AI-powered ‘car reports’ for Tesla and Rivian EVs
Modern connected vehicles, and especially EVs, generate a lot of data. But automakers don’t often give owners a go...
IT総合 Palantir now owns nearly 9% of EV startup Faraday Future — here’s why
Palantir now owns 8.7% of struggling electric vehicle startup Faraday Future, according to a new filing with the U.S. Se...
IT総合 AI mortgage startup LoanSnap loses license to operate in Connecticut
The revocation comes after TechCrunch's exclusive reporting on how LoanSnap was inundated with lawsuits.
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