TechCrunch Mobility: The state of EV sales and Rivian secures the next $1B from VW

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A little bird

You can remember last week, an article in the New York Times reported that Uber Co-founder and former chief executive officer Travis Is Go to work with investors Chinese autonomous vehicles to buy US arm From the ponyAnd Uber can even help it happen.

Several small birds tell me Kalanik Ally and Uber ATG Veterran Eric Mehofer Involved. We are looking around to learn more. In the meantime, here is a little history lesson. Mehofer was with the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon University before going to Uber in the 21st. He finally became CEO of Uber ATG, a self-driving unit sold to Aurora. Mehofer is connected to Kalank’s Cloudchenance Enterprise via Automation and Robotics Business LAB37Which was initially Reported by spoon Back to 2023.

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Significant lessons and other TDBITS

Autonomous vehicle

An interesting new word was created during recent recording AutonocastPodcast I co-host with Alex Roy and Ed Needermier (go to the entire credit judgment). The word is MVAT, or minimal effective autonomy theater – when companies set up a minimum sustainable autonomy product to settle a details of progress.

A possible example: Tesla gives a model y suv Drive about 15 miles of car From its factory to the apartment complex, where the new owner of the vehicle is owned, CEO Elon Mask completes the customer’s first “autonomous distribution”. If this is one-off, alias a demonstration, but this is an MVAT.

This is not just picking Tesla. Many other companies have posted clever videos to show the ability of their respective automatic driving technology. However, it was a much more common practice in 20 – since the AVS was shooting at the top of the hype cycle.

Electric vehicles, batteries and charging

The second quarter has ended and its money sales and production number! When many automakers issued monthly reports, some of the EV companies that we observe only provide quarterly numbers.

Electric hammer is outseling the F -150 thunderstorm

EV -maker ramps pushed gravity to the production of Lucid sales inch ahead

Rivian sales take on the next $ 1b from Volkswagen as the struggle continues

Tesla faces the second year of sales decrease after another bad quarters

In the me, Republican MLAs Pass a reunion law That, among the other things, does a lot of The act of inflation decreaseEveryone, including that solar, air and clean hydrogen, will lose incentives under the new bill. EV tax credit is also deleted for the establishment of new and used electric vehicles and home EV-charging equipment.

The EV Tax Credit is already spread through the industry, including companies that cannot yet sell. SlateJeff Bezos-supported EV startup, EV Tax Credit application was planning to sell a pickup truck at a lesser price of $ 20,000. But its language Website has changed To reflect the passage of the bill.

Some news from the electric RV and the van in the van… GravelStartup based in California We wrote beforeIts flagship has begun distributing customers of the All-Bedutin Travel trailer. And GroundedEstablished by former SpaceX Engineers and Detroit based startup, The distribution of new electronic vansThe first customer of G3K is called.

Protection

The FBI And Cyber ​​Security Companies are warning that lots of hacking groups are known as Spider Now Targeting Airlines and Transport sectorsThe

QuantusAustralian airline giant, it says Experiences a data violation It compromised with the personal information of at least million million passengers.