Aurora launches its driverless commercial trucking service, and a surprise bidder joins Canoo’s bankruptcy case

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Rebecca Belan for your usual host cursin day, has passed to me and I want to talk about Aurora Innovation and its last -minute save.

Aurora promised to launch the first completely autonomous commercial tracking service in the United States in April this year, after leaving behind its first 2024 debut. With simply (proverbial) minutes to leave, Aurora is the winningThe

Aurora says that it has operated more than 1,200 miles this week with Hirshwach Motor Line and Uber Freight between Launch customers between Dallas and Houston. It is now with a single truck. Aurora has planned to create “ten self-driving trucks” in the end of 2025 and expand it to El Paso and Phoenix as it is running more freight to customers, including the supervision of autonomous trucks under the supervision.

This is a huge step for Aurora and for art. However, with Trump’s tariffs stops a lot of invoice, Aurora is in a good position to occupy the moment, or prolonged delays can threaten to survive?

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Deal!

AerialA drone manufacturer, has Its acquisition is done Space and Defense Engineering Company Blueuhlo. Companies, which are merging on the $ 1.5 billion all-stealk agreement, will become a new type of defense technology called AV that can create technology across the domains of war: air, land, sea, space and cyber.

TrueA defense-centric space startup building spacecraft and software for US National Protection Mission, Raising $ 260 million A series led by VC Farm Axel in C. Round.

Significant lessons and other TDBITS

Autonomous vehicle

May cause mobility Joining UberRoster to autonomous vehicles. Two have announced this week that the plan to deploy May’s autonomous vehicles on the Uber platform At the end of 2025, starting from Arlington, Texas as part of many years of partnership.

Moment, Chinese AV Startup, is also working with UberThe Two plans Turn Momenta Robotaxis to Uber The platform is being launched in Europe in 2026.

Wemo And Toyota Is Explore an agreement It can one day lead to a new self-driving vehicle designed for ride-hilling and probably personal autonomous vehicles. This is still the first day, so think it as a soft-launch of their emerging relationship.

Electric vehicles, charging and battery

CanuIts bankruptcy activities are still underway, and now a mysterious investor judge asks the judge in London Stop selling EV startup assets to its CEO, call it a “defective process”. He is throwing a $ 20 million offer for assets, which is the CEO of Canur Anthony Acilla Trumps $ 4 million bids.

Rivian There’s a beautiful sitting on a Battery It is for the trucks, SUVs and commercial vans made before and after the election of Donald Trump. It will soften the president’s tariff injury, which is strictly hitting the auto industry.

Slate, Buzzy New Jeff Bezos-Backed EV Startups coming out of Stealth Last Week Last Week A print plant located in Indiana WarsaAs a future place where it will produce its cheap electric truck.

TeslaThe board started Successor The brand and its margins are strictly underestimated to CEO Elon Kasturi as Chief’s Covering in Washington. Tesla Chair Robin Denhlam denied the report from Wall Street Journal.

When we are about the Tesler Board, let’s concentrate on Joe Jebbia, a member of the board (who is also Attached to the dog) Gabia Acquire about 4,000 shares A Million of Tesla Stock is at 1 million prices, which is significant because the members of the board are very rare to see the stock purchase of the stock directly.

Different

Ford There is Stop FNV4 Software Architecture InitiativesA project that once thought it was critical to compete with EV leaders like Tesla. The closing of the initiative is to finish the development of a few years that the vehicle software integrates vertically across Ford’s gas and electric lineup.

Employer Transformation For the first time with a pilot on the board, the vertical flight from the horizontal to the vertical flight. This is a necessary step as the company works towards the FAA certificate.

Ride-hilling and delivery

Dord A judge in California wants Dismiss a case By the file Uber It has complained to the Delivery Agency for the Stefling Competition, intimidating the exclusive agreement of the restaurant owners. Dordash said that the case was nothing but a horrible strategy from Uber to avoid “real competition”.