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Google Maps announces new features and somehow none of them are ‘pause navigation’

Look, we’ve all been there. You’re on a road trip and you pull off the highway for some food or fuel. And th...
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Applied Intuition raises $300M four months after raising $250M

Autonomous vehicle software startup Applied Intuition has raised $300 million just four months after closing a $250 mill...
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Elon Musk sets new date for Tesla robotaxi reveal, calls everything beyond autonomy ‘noise’

Elon Musk says he will show off Tesla’s purpose-built “robotaxi” prototype during an event October 10,...
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Elon Musk sets new October 10 date for ‘robotaxi’ reveal and ‘other things’

Elon Musk says he will show off Tesla’s purpose-built “robotaxi” prototype during an event October 10,...
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Monarch Tractor CEO says $133M raise will help it escape ‘quite a challenging time’

Monarch Tractor was in a tricky spot late last year as the autonomous electric tractor startup juggled growth and an unc...
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Elon Musk is now a villain in Joe Biden’s presidential campaign

Biden centering Musk in his campaign is a notable escalation, considering he spent most of his presidency seemingly pret...
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Fisker cleared to sell North American EVs for $46.25 million

Fisker has been given the green light by a bankruptcy judge to sell more than 3,000 of its Ocean SUVs to a vehicle leasi...
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Fisker has one major objector to its Ocean SUV firesale

One major dissenter threatens to upend Fisker’s apparent best chance at offloading its unsold EVs, a deal that wou...
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Elon Musk confirms Tesla ‘robotaxi’ event delayed due to design change

Tesla had internally planned to build the dedicated robotaxi and the $25,000 car, often referred to as the Model 2, on t...
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Tesla reportedly delays ‘robotaxi’ event to October

Tesla had internally planned to build the dedicated robotaxi and the $25,000 car, often referred to as the Model 2, on t...
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Henrik Fisker drops salary to $1 to keep Fisker Inc. bankruptcy case alive

Fisker Inc. co-founders Henrik Fisker and his wife Geeta Gupta-Fisker are lowering their salaries to $1 in order to keep...
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Lucid Motors sets new record for EV deliveries as it seeks ‘escape velocity’

These efforts have come as Lucid is looking to start building its Gravity SUV by the end of this year. © 2024 TechCrunch...
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Fisker asks bankruptcy court to sell its EVs at average of $14,000 each

Fisker has a willing buyer for its remaining inventory of all-electric Ocean SUVs, and has asked the Delaware Bankruptcy...
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The fight over Fisker’s assets is already heating up

Fisker is just a few days into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the fight over its assets is already charged, with one law...
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Fisker faced financial distress as early as last August

Fisker was facing “potential financial distress” as early as last August, according to a new filing in its C...
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Fisker failed because it wasn’t ready to be a car company

Two years ago, an employee at Fisker Inc. told me that the most pressing concern inside the EV startup was not whether i...
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Tesla and its fans waged an unprecedented battle over Elon Musk’s $56B pay package

It's all part of an effort to say that, this time, when the shareholders vote to approve his monster $56 billion compens...
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Ahead of Tesla’s big shareholder vote, let’s re-read the judge’s opinion that got us here

There has been a silly amount of drama in the run-up to Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. The compan...
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Ford’s secretive low-cost EV team is growing with talent from Rivian, Tesla and Apple

A TechCrunch review of LinkedIn data found that Ford has built this team up to around 300 employees over the last year. ...
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Rivian’s path to survival is now remarkably clear

Rivian needs to sell its new revamped vehicles at a profit in order to sustain itself long enough to get to the cheaper ...
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Inside EV startup Fisker’s collapse: how the company crumbled under its founders’ whims

An autonomous pod. A solid-state battery-powered sports car. An electric pickup truck. A convertible grand tourer EV wit...
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Fisker cuts hundreds of workers in bid to keep EV startup alive

Struggling EV startup Fisker has laid off hundreds of employees in a bid to stay alive, as it continues to search for fu...
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Lucid Motors slashes 400 jobs ahead of crucial SUV launch

Lucid Motors is laying off about 400 employees, or roughly 6% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring ahead of the ...
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VinFast crash that killed family of four now under federal investigation

The top vehicle safety regulator in the U.S. has launched a formal probe into an April crash involving the all-electric ...
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Waymo’s robotaxis under investigation after crashes and traffic mishaps

The company's autonomous vehicles have had a number of misadventures lately, involving driving into construction sites. ...
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Fisker Ocean faces fourth federal safety probe

The U.S.' NHTSA has opened a fourth investigation into the Fisker Ocean SUV, spurred by multiple claims of "inadvertent ...
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Tesla is Luminar’s largest lidar customer

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that lidar sensors are a “crutch” for autonomous vehicles. But his company has ...
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Rivian loses $1.45 billion as cost-cutting measures continue

Rivian lost $1.45 billion in the first quarter, showing that its recent company-wide cost-cutting measures have a ways t...
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Bloom is reinventing how e-bikes are made in the US

The pandemic ushered in an e-bike boom. But like so many other pandemic trends, that boom didn’t last. The last ye...
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Lucid loses longtime Apple and Intel exec who steered software division

Lucid Motors’ senior vice president of digital Mike Bell has resigned from his position. The company said in a fil...
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