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Your usual Kirsten host has passed the brakes for me, Rebecca Bellan, for the day, and I want to talk about Aurora Innovation and its last minute saving.
Aurora had promised to launch the first full -fully autonomous commercial truck service in April this year, after postponing its original 2024 debut again. With only minutes (proverbial) to save, Aurora withdrew the victory.
Aurora says he ran over 1,200 miles of goods this week between Dallas and Houston with departure customers Motor Lines and Uber Freight. This is with a single truck, for now. Aurora plans to build up to “dozens of self-direction trucks” and expand to El Paso and Phoenix by the end of 2025 while continuing to run more transportation for customers with his autonomous supervised truck fleet.
There is a big step for aurora, and for the industry. But while Trump’s tariffs grind many shipments at stop, is Aurora well positioned to catch the moment, or can prolonged delays threaten her survival?
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Deals!
AeroovironmentA drone manufacturer has completed its purchase of the Bluehalo Space and Protection Engineering Company. The $ 4.1 billion stock agreement will find that the united companies become a new type of protection technology called AV that can build technology in all areas of war: air, land, sea, space and cybernette.
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Real abnormalityAn initial protection and software airspace building for US national security missions raised $ 260 million in a series C round led by VC ACCE.
Visible readings and other announcements
Autonomous vehicles
May mobility is the latest to join JacketList of autonomous vehicle collaborators. Both announced this week plan to place May autonomous vehicles on the Uber platform by the end of 2025, starting in Arlington, Texas, as part of a long -term partnership.
Tent, Chinese AV start, is also working with Jacket. Both plan to start Robotaxis Momenta on the Uber platform starting in Europe in 2026.
path AND Toyota They are exploring an agreement that one day can lead to a new self-driving vehicle created for travel greetings and perhaps even personal autonomous vehicles. They are still the first days, so think about it as more a gentle intake of their flowering relationship.
Electric vehicles, charging and batteries
CanoBankruptcy procedures are still continuing, and now a mysterious investor in London has asked the judge to stop the sale of EV starting assets in her CEO, calling it a “flawed process”. He is throwing a $ 20 million offer for assets, which shakes the CEO’s offer of Canoo Anthony Aquila.
Redeem It is beautifully sitting in a reserve of batteries for trucks, SUVs and commercial vans it built before and after Donald Trump’s elections. This will mitigate the president’s fees, which are hitting the vehicle industry hard.
Plaque, The new start of the new Buzzy backed by Jeff Bezos who exploded from the theft last week is watching a printing plant located in Warsaw, Indiana, as the next country where it will produce its free electrical truck.
TeslaThe board is reported to have started buying for a descendant of CEO Elon Musk after the boss’s Cevorating in Washington has depreciated the brand, and its borders, difficult. Tesla President Robyn Denholm denied reporting by Wall Street Journal.
As we are on the topic of the Tesla Board, let’s turn our attention to the board member Joe Gebbia (which is also connected to Doge). Gebbia won about 4,000 Tesla stock shares worth $ 1 million, which is visible because it is so rare to see board members towards purchase shares.
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Ford She has closed her FNV4 software architecture initiative, a project she once thought of as critical to competing with EV leaders like Tesla. Closing the initiative means one end of the years of development that would integrate vertically the software of vehicles into Ford’s gas and electrical formations.
Aviation of work Transitioned his Evtol from horizontal flight to vertical for the first time with a pilot on board. It is an indispensable step as the company works towards FAA certification.
Greeting and submitting the trip
pigeon wants a judge in California to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Jacket This accuses the Stifling Competition providing company scaring restaurant owners in exclusive deals. Dobordash said the lawsuit was nothing but a scary tactic by Uber to avoid “true competition”.
