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Outrider raises $53 million to develop autonomous truck technology

Posted on Feb 19, 2020 in Finance, News, Trucks

Driverless vehicle technology has the potential to transform industries — and indeed, it already has. Stockholm, Sweden-based Einride has...

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Tesla’s biggest problem with self-driving cars is that it actually has to sell them to customers

Posted on Feb 17, 2020 in Cars, Finance

Tesla is the dominant electric carmaker in the industry – an impressive achievement in just over 15 years of existence. But it wants...

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For self-driving startups, revenue is elusive, but miles add up

Posted on Feb 15, 2020 in Cars, Finance

May Mobility Inc.’s boxy white-and-green self-driving shuttle pulls up to a damp corner in downtown Detroit. Its big doors swing out...

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Uber pays Google $9.7 million to settle legal beef in tangled self-driving car fight

Posted on Feb 13, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

Another piece of the tangled legal fight sparked by Uber’s attempt to catch up to Google’s self-driving car program has been resolved,...

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BMW i Ventures invests in AutoFi, a San Francisco-based vehicle financing startup

Posted on Feb 13, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

The era of haggling with a salesperson to purchase a vehicle may soon be over, as technology continues to play a role in the purchase of a...

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Investors hit the brakes on automotive startups

Posted on Feb 9, 2020 in Cars, Finance

Last year, Ted Serbinski called his accelerator, TechStars Detroit, the “‘comeback city’s’ startup ecosystem.” Since 2015, the accelerator...

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GM’s Cruise values autonomous vehicle industry at $8 trillion

Posted on Feb 5, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

The global autonomous vehicle industry is an $8 trillion market opportunity, according to General Motors’ autonomous vehicle unit Cruise....

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GM commits $3 billion to build electric and autonomous vehicles in Michigan

Posted on Jan 27, 2020 in Buses, Finance, News

GM said Monday it will invest $2.2 billion into its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce all-electric trucks and SUVs, as well as a...

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AMS investors approve capital increase to fund Osram takeover

Posted on Jan 24, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

VIENNA (Reuters) – AMS (AMS.S) shareholders approved a 1.7 billion euros ($1.9 billion) capital increase to fund the Osram (OSRn.DE)...

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Projects funded for autonomous vehicle cyber security

Posted on Jan 23, 2020 in Cars, Finance, News

Seven projects whose participants include Honda, Thales and WMG have won funding to develop cyber security solutions for connected and...

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DOT grants back development of autonomous-vehicle industry

Posted on Jan 22, 2020 in Cars, Finance

On Dec. 21, 2018, the U.S. Department of Transportation released a Notice of Funding encouraging municipalities, states or other...

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Dataspeed Inc. team awarded $1.77 million grant from Michigan Department of Transportation

Posted on Jan 13, 2020 in Buses, Finance

DETROIT, Jan. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Dataspeed Inc., a leading autonomous vehicle engineering provider, in partnership with AM...

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Hyundai Motor Group to invest $87B over next 5 years; 44 electrified vehicles; new EV development system; hydrogen plans

Posted on Jan 2, 2020 in Finance, News

Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) will invest more than KRW100 trillion (US$87 billion) over next 5 years—KRW20 trillion (~US$17.4 billion)...

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StradVision raises $27 million in Series B funding to support camera technology for autonomous vehicles and ADAS systems

Posted on Dec 19, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — StradVision, an innovator in vision processing technology for Autonomous Vehicles,...

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Bluespace.ai, a startup focused on AV technology for mass transit, gets $3.5 million in seed funding

Posted on Dec 13, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

Bluespace.ai, a new autonomous driving startup focused on mass transit, announced today that it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding...

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Google’s self-driving car project buys British AI firm Latent Logic

Posted on Dec 12, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

Waymo, Google’s self-driving car sibling company, has acquired the Oxford artificial intelligence company Latent Logic for an undisclosed...

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Volkswagen parent acquires stake in self-driving startup

Posted on Dec 11, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News, Technology

Porsche Automobil Holding SE has acquired a minority stake in Silicon Valley self-driving sensor startup Aeva Inc., the latest in a flurry...

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Hyundai commits $17 billion to add electric, driverless cars

Posted on Dec 4, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

Hyundai Motor Co. will spend 20 trillion won ($17 billion) over the next six years on new technology to help make the switch to electric...

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Toyota leads $50 million investment in autonomous shuttle startup May Mobility

Posted on Dec 4, 2019 in Buses, Finance, News

May Mobility,  a Michigan-based startup that is operating autonomous shuttle services in three U.S. cities, has raised $50 million in a...

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Wayve raises $20 million to give autonomous cars better AI brains

Posted on Nov 17, 2019 in Cars, Finance, Technology

Wayve, a U.K.-based startup that’s developing artificial intelligence (AI) that teaches cars to drive autonomously using reinforcement...

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