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KIRSTEN, your common host, passed the reins to Rebecca Bellan and wants to talk about Aurora Innovation and the last minute storage.
Aurora promised to start the first autonomous commercial truck transportation service in the United States in April of this year, withdrawing its debut in 2024, and then promised to start the first complete commercial truck service in the United States. Aurora stopped in a few minutes.
Aurora said this week, with more than 1,200 miles of cargo with HiRSCHBACH Motor Line and Uber Freight between Dallas and Houston. There is a single truck now. Aurora plans to build a “dozens of autonomous trucks” and expand to El Paso and Phoenix by the end of 2025.
This is a big stage of the Aurora and the industry. But when Trump’s tariffs stop a lot of shipments, Aurora is in a position to capture the moment, and can the delay threaten survival?
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AEROVIRONMENTDrone manufacturers have completed the acquisition of Bluehalo, a space and defensive engineering company. The $ 4.1 billion all stock trading will be a new type of defense technology called AV, which allows a mergered company to build technology in all war areas such as AV, land, sea, space and cyber.
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TrueDefense -based aerospace startup spaceships and software for US national security missions raised $ 260 million in the series C round led by VC company Accel.
Notable reading and other tidbits
Autonomous driving
Mobility This is the latest product to join UberList of autonomous vehicle collaborators. The two announced this week that by the end of 2025, Arlington, Texas, plans to deploy May’s autonomous driving cars on the Uber platform as part of many years of partnerships.
Momenta,,, China AV Startup is also working together Uber. These two plans are planning to launch Momenta Robotaxis on the Uber platform that starts in Europe in 2026.
Waymo and Toyota One day, we are looking for a deal that can lead to new autonomous vehicles designed for riding and perhaps a personal autonomous driving car. Since it is still early, think of it as a soft lunch of a new relationship.
Electric vehicle, charging and battery
Canoo‘The bankruptcy process is still in progress, and now the mysterious London investor has called the judge the “defective process” to the judge that the asset sales of EV startups to the CEO. He is abandoning a $ 20 million proposal for his assets, Trumping the $ 4 million bid for the Canoo Ceo Anthony Aquila.
Ribian Sit beautifully at the battery stockpile for trucks, SUVs and commercial vans and was built before and after Donald Trump election. It is struck by the automotive industry by alleviating the blow of the president’s tariffs.
Slate automatic,,, EV startups, supported by the new JEFF Bezos, who broke up at Stealth last week, are watching the future printing factory that will produce cheap electric trucks in the printing factory in Indiana Warsaw.
TeslaThe board of directors said that since Washington’s chief of Washington devalued the brand and worked hard on the margin, he began to shop for the successor of ELON Musk. Tesla Chairman Robynenhelm denied reports of the Wall Street Journal.
While we are on the topic of Tesla’s board of directors, let’s take care of Joe Gebbia (also connected to Doge), a member of the Joe Gebbia Board of Directors. GEBBIA acquired about 4,000 shares of Tesla stocks for $ 1 million, and it is noteworthy because it is rare for the board members to buy stocks straight.
miscellaneous
ford FNV4 software architecture initiative has been terminated. Closing the initiative means the development of several years in which the vehicle software can be integrated vertically in the gas and electric lineup of Ford.
Joby aviation EVTOL was first switched from horizontal to vertical flight. This is the stage that the company needs to get FAA certification.
Ride and delivery
Doordash I want to dismiss the lawsuit filed by a California judge. Uber It threatens the owner of a restaurant into an exclusive transaction, so that the delivery company blames the competition for staff. DOORDASH said that this lawsuit is only Uber’s coward to avoid Uber’s “real competition.”
