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A little bird
You can remember the past week, an article in the New York Times reported that Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick is worked with investors To buy the US Arm of the Chinese Autonomous Veho Company Company Pony toand uber can still help do it.
Many little birds tell me kalanick ally and uber atg veteran Eric Meyhofer involved. We fold in to find out more. In the meantime, here is a small history lesson. Meyhofer is with the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University before officially moving Uber in 2015. The Beginner of Uber ATG, sold later in Aurora. Meyhofer linked to Kalanick’s Kalanick’s Kalanick’s Kalanskitchens by a restaurant automation and the robotics business called Lab37that was originally reported on the spoon Back to 2023.
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Autonomous vehicles
An attractive new term is beaten by a recent recording of SettlementPodcast I Co-hosts with Alex Roy and Ed Niedermeyery (full credit goes to Roy). The term is mvat, or minimum survival automatic theater – when companies deploy minimum product is sufficient to maintain an account of the account.
A possible example: Tesla Allow a model Y SUV drive approximately 15 miles From its factory in the apartment complex which new car owner resides, completed what CEO Elon Musk is called the first “Autonomous Delivery. If this is a demonstration, then it is a demonstration, then it is a demonstration, then a demonstration, then it is a demonstration.
It doesn’t just pick up Tesla, by the way. Many other companies post flashy videos to show capabilities of their respective automatic driving technology. But this is more common practice in 2015 – as AVS shot at the top of the hype cycle.
Electricass vehicles, batteries, and charging
The second quarter ends and means sales numbers and production! While many automakers issue monthly reports, some of the EV companies we are watching just provide quarterly numbers.
Electric Hummer is about to outselling F-150 lightning
Lucid Sales Inch for as Ev Maker pushes the production of gravity ramp
Rivian accepts the next $ 1b from Volkswagen while retail sales
Tesla is facing the second straight year of sale fall after another bad quarter
While, Republican laws passed an ACT to reconcile that, among other things, does not prevent the majority of Aimincluding such solar, air, and clean hydrogen disappears under the new bill. EV tax credits are also eliminated for new and used electric vehicles and the installation of home charging equipment.
The EV tax limit is already targeted in the industry, including companies that have not yet sold. Slate AutoThe Jeff Bezos backed by the EV starts, planning to sell a pickup truck less than $ 20,000 using EV tax credit. But the language of Website changed to show Bill’s way.
Also a little news from the world of electric rvs and van … stoneCalifornia-based start We’ve written beforeCustomer deliveries began at the main content of all electric trailers. and GroundedStarting constructed by former Spacex engineers and Detroit based, New Electric Van is providedcalled G3, its first customer.
security
the FBI and cybersecurity companies are warned that more hacking group known to be Scattered spider TODAY Target airlines and transport sectors.
QantasThe Australian Airline Giant, as it is experienced a data breach compromising personal information with at least 6 million passengers.
