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Your usual guest Kirsten passed me the reins, Rebecca Bellan, for the day, and I want to talk about Aurora Innovation and his last minute save.
Aurora had promised to launch the first fully autonomous commercial self -tea shop in the United States in April this year, after rejecting his original 2024 debut. With Solo (Proverbial) minutes of reserve, Aurora pulled out the victory.
Aurora claims to have crossed over 1,200 miles of goods this week between Dallas and Houston with the launch customers Hirschbach Motor Lines and Uber Freight. This is with a single truck, for now. Aurora plans to build “dozens of autonomous guided trucks” and expand to El Paso and Phoenix by the end of 2025 while continuing to manage multiple goods for customers with its supervised autonomous truck fleet.
It is a huge step for Aurora and industry. But while Trump’s rates grind many shipments, Aurora is well positioned to take over the moment or could prolonged delays threaten his survival?
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AeroviramentA manufacturer of drones has completed the acquisition of the Space Engineering and BlueHalo defense company. The 4.1 billion dollar All-Stock agreement will see the United Companies become a new type of defense technology called AV that can build technology in all war combat domains: air, land, sea, space and cyber.
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Real anomalyA spatial vehicle and software for the construction of aerospace startups focused on defense for US national security missions, collected $ 260 million in a Serie C round led by the company VC Accel.
Remarkable readings and other morsels
Autonomous vehicles
Can mobility it is the last to participate UberList of collaborators of autonomous vehicles. The two announced this week scheduled to distribute autonomous May vehicles on the Uber platform by the end of 2025, starting from Arlington, Texas, as part of a multi -year partnership.
Moment, Even the Chinese AV startup is working Uber. The two plan to launch the robotasses moment on the Uber platform starting from Europe in 2026.
Waymo AND Toyota An agreement that one day could lead to a new autonomous driving vehicle designed for personal autonomous and possibly personal autonomous vehicles are exploring. They are still the first days, so think like more than a soft launch of their grass relationship.
Electric vehicles, charge and batteries
CanoeThe bankruptcy procedures are still ongoing, and now a mysterious London investor has asked the judge to stop the sale of the activities of the EV startup to his CEO, calling him an “imperfect process”. Staying down an offer of $ 20 million for the activities, which exceeds the offer of $ 4 million Anthony Aquila, cano CEO.
Riveian It is rather sitting on an escort of batteries for its trucks, SUVs and commercial vans that he built before and after Donald Trump’s elections. This will soften the departure of the president’s rates, who are hitting the automotive industry hard.
Slate car, The start of EV with the new lively Jeff Bezos, who came out of the stealth last week, is observing a printing system located in Warsaw, in the Indiana, as a future place where it will produce its economic electric truck.
TeslaAccording to reports, the Board of Directors started shopping for a successor of CEO Elon Musk while the Knight of the head in Washington devalued the brand and his margins. The Tesla Robyn Denholm chair denied reports from the Wall Street Journal.
While we are on the subject of the Board of Directors of Tesla, we turn our attention to the member of the Council Joe Gebbia (who is also connected to Doge). The Gebbia has acquired about 4,000 Tesla actions to a value of $ 1 million, which is remarkable because it is so rare to see the members of the purchase board of directors.
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Ford He closed his Fnv4 software architecture initiative, a project that once had thought as a fundamental to compete with the leader EV as Tesla. The closure of the initiative means for years of development that would vertically integrate the vehicle software through the Ford gas and electric formations.
Joby aviation Its EVTOL with the horizontal vertical flight with a pilot has passed for the first time. It is a necessary step as the company works for FAA certification.
Laughs-coglione and delivery
Doordash He wants a California judge Uber This accuses the delivery company of suffocating competition by owners of exclusive business restaurants. Doordash said the cause was nothing but a scary tactic of Uber to avoid “real competition”.
