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TechCrunch Mobility: Google’s Gemini is coming to your car, chaos comes for Luminar, and the Amazonification of Uber 2.0

16 May 2025 at 11:06
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! OK, who placed their bet on General Motors being the landing spot for Aurora co-founder and chief product officer Sterling Anderson? Not me. But here we are. […]

TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla denied β€˜Robotaxi’ trademark, Aurora loses a co-founder, and tariffs start to take a toll

9 May 2025 at 10:35
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Remember last week when Aurora met a major milestone β€” just squeaking by under its own deadline β€” and launched a driverless self-driving truck service? Welp, this […]

TechCrunch Mobility: Aurora launches its driverless commercial trucking service, and a surprise bidder joins Canoo’s bankruptcy case

2 May 2025 at 13:45
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Your usual host Kirsten has passed the reins to me, Rebecca Bellan, for the day, and I want to talk about Aurora Innovation and its last-minute save.Β  […]

TechCrunch Mobility: Slate’s β€˜transformer’ EV truck breaks cover and Tesla’s dueling realities

25 April 2025 at 15:30
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Busy week, so let’s get to it. Starting with federal regulations! Woohoo. Exciting stuff.Β  I’m talking about the U.S. Department of Transportation’s new Automated Vehicle Framework, which […]

TechCrunch Mobility: Lyft buys its way into Europe, Kodiak SPACs, and how China’s new ADAS rules might affect Tesla

18 April 2025 at 13:05
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Enough with my typical small talk. Let’s jump into the news right away this week. And there’s plenty of it, including Lyft’s entry into Europe, AV startup […]

TechCrunch Mobility: Jeff Bezos backs a secretive EV startup and Lucid snaps up Nikola’s assetsΒ 

11 April 2025 at 12:45
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. If there is one certainty in this uncertain moment, it’s this: U.S. tariff policy is likely to change again. As of Friday morning, there […]

TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla takes a hit, tariff chaos begins, and one EV startup hits a milestone

4 April 2025 at 12:52
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Over the 13 years reporting on Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, I have watched the rise, fall, near misses, and rise again of the company and […]

TechCrunch Mobility: Inside the Rivian skunkworks program, and Trump’s gift to Tesla

28 March 2025 at 10:30
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Before we jump into the transportation news of the week, it’s worth pointing you to a couple of articles that are focused on Elon Musk, the CEO […]

TechCrunch Mobility: Inside Waymo’s deal with SFO, Elon’s moment of truth, and BYD’s breakthrough

21 March 2025 at 10:05
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Before we jump into the news, just a quick bit of housekeeping. I’m putting β€œThis week’s wheels” on hiatus for a few weeks as I get into […]

TechCrunch Mobility: Testing the Uber-Waymo robotaxi, Rivian goes hands-free, and Travis Kalanick has AV FOMOΒ 

14 March 2025 at 12:15

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! For regular readers of TechCrunch Mobility, you may be wondering, β€œWhy did this newsletter land in my inbox on Friday?” Folks, we’re moving days in an effort […]

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Lucid loses its CEO, and β€˜founder mode’ comes for Flexport

27 February 2025 at 10:15

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Lucid Motors delivered a surprise this week when it announced that CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson was resigning. Speculation about the departure, which includes vacating a board […]

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Beta Technologies’ bet on electric flight and Hyundai’s new Tesla charging port comes up short

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Fifteen years ago, I started writing about a little EV startup that was trying to survive even as others failed in the clean tech boom-and-bust cycle. Back […]

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Another robotaxi operation heads to Texas and Archer scores $300M for its defense mission

13 February 2025 at 10:09

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Raise your hand if you’re exhausted by the firehose of information coming from every direction. Yeah, me too.Β  At TechCrunch, we’re focused on helping readers (that’s you!) […]

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Pour one out for Cruise and why autonomous vehicle test miles dropped 50%

6 February 2025 at 13:35

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! We knew this day was coming: Cruise is dead β€” at least as a robotaxi company. General Motors completed its acquisition of GM Cruise Holdingsβ€―LLC; Cruise is […]

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Boom goes supersonic and Elon promises a self-driving service by summer

30 January 2025 at 11:35

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! In case you missed it, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company would launch a paid ride-hailing service with a fleet of driverless vehicles in Austin in […]

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Canoo craters and Trump comes for EVs

23 January 2025 at 10:05

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! We’re just a few days into a new Trump administration, and it’s already a firehose of executive orders, declarations, and even pardons. A few have crossed into […]

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A rising EV startup star snags $100M and Tesla’s win-lose federal funding moment

16 January 2025 at 10:05

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Before we move into the news of this week, we have one more roundup of transportation tech at CES 2025. As I noted last week, autonomous vehicle […]

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Autonomous vehicles are having a moment and other vibes from CES 2025

9 January 2025 at 13:15

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! Hey hey, it’s a new year! I’ve missed you these past two weeks. But I’m back, and in Las Vegas for CES 2025. As always, announcements from […]

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Waymo fills the Cruise void overseas and a salute to icon Jean Jennings

19 December 2024 at 10:05

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. This will be the last newsletter of 2024! But don’t worry, we’ll be back in 2025 β€” sign up here to get it in your inbox every week. Thank you for reading and your emails. I love […]

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RIP, Cruise robotaxi

12 December 2024 at 10:35

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility β€” your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free β€” just click TechCrunch Mobility! GM’s decision to no longer fund its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise was a surprise to many β€” and got me thinking about this startup that I’ve come […]

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