7 posts tagged ‘EV’
All the future of transportation tech that stood out at CES 2024
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Another CES has come and gone and transportation was still one of the central actors on one of the world’s largest tech stages. It wasn’t just electric cars either that captured our attention at CES 2024. Companies and startups focused on automated driving, EV charging, software (and more specifically AI), sensors, aviation, boats, drones, micromobility […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
How India will navigate EVs in 2024
India, a major player in the global automotive industry, has started focusing on transitioning to alternative fuels to curb pollution after expanding its consumer and vehicle bases and adding local manufacturing facilities over the past two decades. On this journey, 2024 will be a crucial year, as the country — the third-largest automotive market — […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
LA Auto Show: the tech, EVs and cars that got our attention
The 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show is a wrap — for press, anyway. That means it’s time to recap the big launches, strange details, cars on display and peculiar absences we noticed this year. The highlights include the SUV that’ll make or break Lucid, Amazon’s auto fixation, a pickup that calls Tesla’s Cybertruck to mind […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
GM absorbs commercial EV unit BrightDrop, CEO is out
BrightDrop, the commercial EV subsidiary of General Motors that launched in 2021, is being swallowed up by its parent company. GM said Thursday that BrightDrop — a “startup” that spun out of the automaker’s Global Innovation organization to become a wholly owned subsidiary — will become part of GM. BrightDrop CEO Travis Katz, who was […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The all-electric Lucid Gravity SUV finally makes its debut with 440 miles of range
EV maker Lucid took the long-awaited wraps off the Gravity, an all-electric three-row SUV with a range that could hypothetically leave a Tesla Model X, Fisker Ocean or Rivian R1S stuck behind at a charging station. The importance of the Lucid Gravity — and more aptly the reception it receives — is existential for the […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Toyota is turning to startup Redwood Materials for critical battery materials
Battery cells produced at Toyota’s future North American EV factory will someday contain a little Redwood Materials DNA. The two companies announced Thursday that Redwood Materials will supply Toyota with cathode material and anode copper foil for battery cells produced at the automaker’s $13.9 billion factory in North Carolina that’s slated to go into production […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Arrival secures emergency cash so it can sell itself
Arrival, the once buzzy EV startup that went public via a merger with blank check company, is in its final death throes. The company has secured a $50 million bridge loan, funds that will to keep it afloat long enough to explore a potential sale, according to a regulatory filing posted Wednesday. The additional liquidity, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.