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I was sad to miss the week of Monterey this year, especially because I was interested in many of the expression, including all electronic Cadilac rich velocity; The Chevrolet Corvet CX and CXR Vision Gran Turismo ideas; And Lucid Gravity expresses x. Alas, the Peabal Beach Golf course was a wide, champagne-visi field or a series of suits and spacious-tired hats for my new broken and boot-encycled legs. Next year!

In the meantime, I thought dear reader, I will reach you, Federal EV Tax Credit expires when September 30 expires to predict what is for Automaker and EV sales in the United States.

My prediction? Ok I don’t want to really stain the results, but I would say: Automakers need to do something in the short term to attract customers, not just because of expired EV tax credit.

A little bird

Serve RoboticsAutonomous Sidewalk Delivery Robot Organization, announced at the beginning of this week that it has achieved The wind roboticsA startup that has created a simulation powered data engine for AI Foundation models and robots. Companies did not disclose the terms of the contract, but some back-of-the-envelope maths and a small bird helped me determine that robotics provided between $ 45 million to $ 50 million for viyu.

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Deal!

Several weeks ago, I have highlighted an agreement between it UberAutonomous vehicle tech startup OnlyAnd EV Maker LucidThe You can Read here thatBut the important part of remembering is Uber’s promise to invest in an unnamed “millions of dollars” in Nooro. (Sources have told me that it is over $ 300 million to invest in Lucide.)

Nooro has now collected more money in a series e round Reached $ 203 million From a group of new investors who include Nvidia, existing Backer Belly Gifford, Isohaus Ventures, Kindred Ventures and Commitment Initiatives. And a portion of Uber’s investment has gone to the series e -round.

Other Deals that have attracted my attention …

Ark investmentThe farm of Kathy Wood, Investing about $ 12.9 million At the Chinese autonomous driving farm PonyAccording to the agency.

Grid aeroA space startup, raised $ 6 million of seed funds From Calibrate Initiatives and Ubly Initiatives.

Group 14Starting a battery material, Has collected $ 463 million Battery manufacturer SK -led funds with the participation of ATL, Lightor, Microsoft, Porsche and Omar. In addition to the round, Group 14 also announced that it “has earned full ownership of a joint venture with SK in South Korea.

OWAYEstablished in 2023 and supported by the Wi -Combinator and General Catalyst, recently closed a $ 4 million seed round. Read the organization’s plan for a construction Decentralized “Uber for the freight.”

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Heartz Will Start selling Freed vehicles in Amazon Autos.

Redwood Says it is working with the caterpillar Recycle the battery packs From the company’s battery-electrical underground loader.

Tesla Planning to launch Voice-Assistant functions in the vehicle Depske And the sinking of bydes is also artificial intelligence.

Routing agencyA startup that helps transit agencies to match the riders with vehicles quickly and cheaply, The zoo landed as its first robotuxi clientThe The zoo will buy a non -X -clusive license for the routing company technology and will bring five startup engineers on the board “to advance the skills and skillibility of the new Robotuxi service.”

Volkswagen Face to face a case In the US District Court of New Jersey, the Steering Wheel of its cars, including ID4, is on top of the buttons. The case has complained that the buttons are very sensitive and very easy to activate it involuntarily.

Wemo Have been Allow In order to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City, the first approval given by the city. The company told TechCrunch that it was planned to start the test “immediately”.

In the world of drones and food, I think it was inevitable we would get the jeeplot – a marge of the zipline and chipotle words. ZiplineAn autonomous drone delivery startup, has been partner with Chipot From Fly digital orders on guests’ locations In the greater Dallas region.

One more thing…

Vanity Fair has a long feature in the Wemo Co-CEO Tacadra It digs his past, how he manages and as the author note, his non-component style. It Reading value And give me the opportunity to remind you that Mawakana will be on our stage Disruption 2025Which will be held on October 27 to 29 in San Francisco.