Waymo may have more experience and access to more money than any of its rivals who are working on self-driving cars. In 2018, it became the first company to launch a commercial autonomous ride-hailing service, and it is seen by experts as the leader in the au…
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Month: November 2019
German automation talent drove Elon Musk’s Tesla move into Europe
FRANKFURT To unclog bottlenecks last year in Tesla Model 3 production in California, Elon Musk flew in six planeloads of new robots and equipment from Germany to speed up battery output. Now the Tesla CEO is trying to tap that German automation ecosystem dir…
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Exclusive: Hands on with the world’s first electric crate motor
LS swaps are so hot right now. Name a car, and youre a two-second Google search away from finding images of the ubiquitous Chevy V8 shoved into an unsuspecting chassis. Any car youre thinking about, its already been done. I appreciate the desire that leads o…
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Consumer Reports Restores ‘Recommended’ Ratings to Both Tesla’s Model 3 and Model S
“Consumer Reports has restored its coveted ‘recommended’ rating to the Tesla Model S and Model 3, because Tesla has made its cars more reliable,” reports CNN: “The Tesla Model 3 struggled last year as the company made frequent design changes and ramped up pr…
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11 big things: The VC world’s mobility mania – PitchBook News & Analysis
The rise of Uber and Lyft, the development of new electric vehicle technologies and the creation of the on-demand economy have all come together to spark a renaissance in the transportation sector over the past decade. There’s been an explosion of companies t…
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