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Your usual host, Kirsten, has transferred the reins to Rebecca Billan, for this day, and I want to talk about the innovation and memorization of Uruor at the last minute.
Aurora had promised to launch the first commercial transportation in the United States in April of this year, after its original re -offer for 2024. With only minutes (the proverb) to spare, Aurora set out of the victory.
Aurora says it is practicing more than 1,200 miles of shipping this week between Dallas and Houston with Hirschbach Motor Lines and Uber Freight. This is with one truck, at the present time. Urra plans to build to “dozens of self -driving trucks” and expanding in El Paso and Phoenix by the end of 2025, as it continues to run more charging to customers with its fleet of independent trucks under supervision.
It is a big step for URARA, and for industry. But with Trump’s tariff stopped by many shipments, is Aurora in a good position to seize this moment, or can it threaten the long delays?
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The air environmentDrone maker, She completed her acquisition Bluehalo Space and Defense Engineering Company. The All-Billion deal, which is $ 4.1 billion, will witness that integrated companies become a new type of defense technology called AV, which can build technology across all areas of war wrestling: Air, Land, SEA, Space, and Cyber.
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Independent vehicles
You may move It is the latest to join UberList of collaborators in independent vehicles. The two announced this week to deploy independent vehicles in May on the Uber platform by the end of 2025, from Arlington, Texas, as part of a multi -year partnership.
Momentumand Chinese AV start, also work Uber. He is planning to launch Momenta Robotaxis on the Uber platform that begins in Europe in 2026.
And emo and Toyota They explore a deal that can one day lead to a new self -driving vehicle designed for riding and perhaps even independent personal compounds. It is still the first days, so think about it more than just a soft launch of their emerging relationship.
Electric cars, shipping and batteries
KantBankruptcy procedures are still ongoing, and now a mysterious investor in London has asked the judge to stop selling EV’s startup assets to its CEO, describing it as a “defective process.” He gives a $ 20 million offer, which exceeds the CEO Anthony Aquila, which is 4 million dollars.
Rural Jamila sits on a stock of batteries for its trucks, four -wheel drive vehicles and commercial trucks that were built before and after the election of Donald Trump. This will reduce the president’s tariff blow, which strikes the auto industry.
Car listand EV, supported by New Jeff Bezos, which broke out from the ghost last week, is looking forward to a printing factory in Warsaw, Indiana, as the future place where its cheap electrical truck will produce.
TimingAccording to what was reported, the shopping board of shopping for the successor of the CEO Elon Musk began, as the president’s cavity in Washington may overcome the brand, and its margin, strongly. Tesla Robyn Denholm President of Journal Wall Street Journal.
While we are on the subject of the Tesla Board of Directors, to turn our attention to Joe Gebbia (who is also associated with DOGE). Gebbia acquired about 4,000 shares of Tesla shares of one million dollars, which is noticeable because it is very rare to see the members of the Board of Directors in a row.
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Ford He has Close the FNV4 software engineering initiativeA project that was believed to be very important to compete with EV leaders like Tesla. The closure of the initiative means the end of years of development that will integrate vehicle programs vertically through the Ford gas and electricity squad.
Judy flight Move Evtol from the horizontal flight to the header for the first time with a pilot on the plane. It is a necessary step as the company is working on a FAA certificate.
Horse riding and delivery
Doordash California judge wants to reject a lawsuit she filed Uber This accuses the stifling competition company by intimidating restaurant owners in exclusive deals. Douordsh said that the lawsuit was nothing but a tactic intimidation from Uber to avoid “real competition.”
