transportation

Cyvl.ai is bringing data-driven solutions to transportation infrastructure

In the summer after his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an engineering school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Cyvl.ai co-founder and CEO Daniel Pelaez needed a job. He went home and wor

Uber Eats’ new live location-sharing feature helps couriers deliver food to users in hard-to-find locations

Uber Eats is adding a live location-sharing capability to help couriers find customers in difficult-to-find locations, including public places such as campus courtyards, parks and playgrounds. Startin

Motional loses a backer, another micromobility bankruptcy and a mobility startup unicorn is born

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Will 2024 (finally) be the year of the autonomous vehicle?

Safety remains the paramount metric for autonomous vehicle deployment, yet there has to be industry consensus on how to adequately measure a robotic or human driver's safety.

Tech layoffs are back with a vengeance

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. For my column this week, I told the story of how an ex-colleague was impersonated by an AI-powered spambot and almost tri

Tesla ‘digs its own grave with the Cybertruck,’ Convoy collapses and Rivian scores a win at Rebelle

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An autoworkers strike trifecta and another speed bump for Cruise and Waymo

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Will batteries usher in a new era of global energy sovereignty?

Will stored energy in batteries be subject to the same global economic and geopolitical forces that shaped fossil fuels?

Google brings that cheap flight data and the feds investigate Elon’s glass house

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Cruise and Waymo score a win and a surprising deal between electric aircraft rivals

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Tesla stock falls as margins slip, VanMoof files for bankruptcy, and Aurora sells $820M worth of stock

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Grab acquires Singapore’s third-largest taxi operator Trans-cab 

Singapore’s ride-hailing and food delivery company Grab has signed an agreement for its car rental unit Grab Rentals to acquire Trans-cab, the city-state’s third-largest taxi operator. 

VanMoof skids off track, another mobility startup goes SPAC and e-bike batteries catch fire

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The best e-bikes for every type of rider and where Chinese EV makers are headed

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Lucid scores a win, Bird’s founder leaves the nest and Zoox robotaxis roll out in Vegas

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Rose Rocket, whose platform helps transportation companies communicate, raises $38M

In 2015, Justin Sky, Justin Bailie and Alexander Luksidadi — all veterans of the trucking and logistics industry — came to the realization that, in order to reach a stage of real-time coll

Socar’s ride-hailing platform Tada adds to growing list of tech layoffs 

Seoul-based ride-hailing platform Tada, operated by Korean ride-sharing company Socar’s subsidiary VCNC, plans to let go of a portion of the company’s employees as part of a restructuring

EVs are going backward

We are moving in the wrong direction: Bigger and more expensive means that EV ownership is becoming less accessible not more so.

GM and Ford could help spark a charging standards war by teaming up with Tesla

Seven months ago, when Tesla announced it would share its EV charging connector design to encourage automakers to adopt the technology and help make it the new standard in North America, few, if any,
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