Techcrunch Mobility: The State of EV Sales and Rivian believe in $ 1 billion from VW
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You may remember last week, I mentioned an article in the New York Times Uber Participant founder and former CEO Travis Calnik He is Work with investors To buy the US arm for the Independent Chinese Vehicle Company Artificial intelligence dowryAnd uber may even help achieve this.
Many small birds tell me Kalanick ALY and Uber Atg Veteran Erik Mihover involved. We flow to learn more. Meanwhile, here is a small history lesson. Meyhofer with the National Center for Android Engineering at the University of Carnegie Mellon was officially moved to Uber in 2015. In the end, he became the CEO of Uber ATG, a self -driving unit that was subsequently sold to Aurora. Meyhofer has been connected to the Kalaanick Clondkitchens Lab37Which was at the beginning I mentioned the spoon Again in 2023.
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Promise readings and other tales
Independent vehicles
A new attractive term was formulated during a recent recording of AutonocastShare the first podcast with Alex Roy and Ed Nedermeier (full credit goes to Roy). The term is MVAT, or the minimum life of life -a -life autonomous theater – when companies publish the minimum life -based self -product sufficient to perpetuate a narration of progress.
One possible example: Tesla allows the Y SUV model It leads about 15 miles From its factory to the residential complex where the new car owner lives, and the completion of what the CEO Elon Musk called the first “independent delivery” of the customer’s car. If this is one time, it is also known as a demonstration, this is MVAT.
This is not only to choose Tesla, by the way. Many other companies have published glamorous videos to display their automatic driving technology capabilities. But it was more common in 2015 – where AVS was escalating to the top of the noise cycle.
Electric cars, batteries and shipping
The second quarter is over and this means sales and production numbers! While many car manufacturers issue monthly reports, some EV companies that we monitor only provide quarterly numbers.
Hummer electricity is almost outperforming light light
The sales in the front of the sales forward with pushing EV Maker to produce the slope gravity
Rivian receives $ 1 billion from Volkswagen with continued sales conflicts
Tesla faces the second year in a row from the decrease in sales after another bad
During, Republican lawmakers He passed the reconciliation law This, among other things, relaxes a lot of Law of reducing inflationIncluding that solar energy, wind and clean hydrogen will lose all incentives under the new bill. EV tax credits are also eliminated for new and used electric cars and the installation of EV home charging equipment.
The end of the EV tax credit is already revolving across the industry, including companies that do not yet have the sale of EV. Car listEV, supported by Jeff Bezos, planned to sell a pickup truck of $ 20,000 with EV tax app. But the language is on The site has changed To reflect the passage of the bill.
Also a little news from the RVS electric world and trucks … pebbleCalifornia startup We have written about it beforeCustomer delivery operations began from the entire leading travel trailer. and FocusThe starting company founded by former Spacex engineers based in Detroit, Her new electrical truck handed overAnd he called G3 to her first customer.
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the Federal Bureau of Investigation Cyber security companies warn that the abundant piracy group known as the name Spider now Targeting airlines and transportation sector.
CantasThis said this Australian Airways giant, He suffered from data breach This presents personal information for at least 6 million passengers.
