Ford plans to repurpose its Kentucky factory manufacturing capacity to launch a battery storage business for data centers, amid its shift from making large EVs
now it's pivoting to hybrids and energy storage X: Erik Grossman / @erikgrossman : Cool to share what I've been working on. Ford is getting into energy storage in a big way Lucas A...
Lidar manufacturer Luminar says that founder and CEO Austin Russell resigned following an ethics inquiry and appoints former Nuance CEO Paul Ricci as its CEO
The board put out a press release announcing the move at the same the company released Q1 earnings which had a glowing quote from Russell 🤔 — techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/b... Kirst...
GM says Cruise will exit the robotaxi business, combining Cruise's and GM's technical teams to focus on autonomous and driver safety tech for upcoming GM cars
Cruise and GM's technical teams will be combined into a single effort focused on developing autonomous technology to offer …
Sources: several Cruise employees say they were “surprised” and “blindsided” by GM's decision to end Cruise's robotaxi program and that they expect job cuts
The news came by Slack message. — Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, who took the top post in June …
Self-driving software startup Ghost Autonomy, formerly Ghost Locomotion, shuts down, after raising ~$220M, and just five months after partnering with OpenAI
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Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns, less than a month after California's DMV suspended Cruise's permits to operate self-driving cars on public roads
Kyle Vogt, the serial entrepreneur who co-founded and led Cruise from a startup in a garage through its acquisition and ownership …
Internal email: autonomous vehicle delivery startup Nuro is laying off ~300 people, or 20% of its staff, to preserve cash, and claims $1B on its balance sheet
Filing: Bird overstated its revenue for over two years by counting unpaid customer rides; valued at ~$2.3B in its SPAC merger, Bird now has a ~$104M market cap
the jig is up https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Kirsten Korosec / @kirstenkorosec : Been an interesting morning already in mobility land. Faraday ‘nine lives’ Future ...
A court grants Waymo a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the California DMV, letting it keep autonomous vehicle tech and safety details secret
Waymo, the autonomous driving arm of Alphabet, was granted a win on Tuesday when a California court ruled it could keep certain details regarding its AV technology secret.
Lyft says it is selling its self-driving unit, called Lyft Level 5 with ~300 employees, to Toyota's Woven Planet Holdings subsidiary for $550M
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
Electric autonomous vehicle startup Cruise raises $2B at a $30B valuation from Microsoft, GM, Honda, and others
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Anthony Levandowski, ex-Uber self-driving head, was sentenced to 18 months in prison as he files a new lawsuit against Waymo and Uber
Maverick self-driving car engineer will not need to report until threat of COVID-19 pandemic has passed — Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer …
Waymo sends members of its early rider program an email saying they could be matched with a fully driverless car soon, and if so, the Waymo app will notify them
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle business under Alphabet, sent an email to customers of its ride-hailing app that their next trip might …