Honda has been teasing its all-electric urban vehicle in 2017, when the automaker showed off its…
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Autonomous truck startup TuSimple hits unicorn status in latest round
Another autonomous vehicle unicorn has joined the herd. TuSimple, a self-driving truck startup running daily routes…
Softbank’s next bet: $940M into autonomous delivery startup Nuro
Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup, has raised $940 million in financing from the Softbank Vision Fund,…
Transportation Weekly: Amazon’s secret acquisition and all the AV feels
Welcome to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. I cover…
Waymo CTO on the company’s past, present and what comes next
A decade ago, about a dozen or so engineers gathered at Google’s main Mountain View campus…
One of Tesla’s biggest investors upped its stake by more than $30M
Baillie Gifford & Co., the second-biggest shareholder of Tesla stock and the , has increased its stake in the…
Amazon, Sequoia invest in self-driving car startup Aurora
Aurora, the buzzy startup founded by early pioneers of self-driving car technology who led programs at Google, Tesla,…
Meet the tiny startup that helped build Amazon’s Scout robot
When Amazon unveiled a six-wheeled urban delivery robot called Scout a couple of weeks ago, its…
Tesla has opened an Amazon store to spread its swag far and wide
Tesla has had a brisk merch business for years now, thanks to its fervent owner base…
Self-driving truck startup Ike raises $52 million
Ike, the autonomous trucking startup founded by veterans of Apple, Google, and Uber Advanced Technologies Group’s…