Hyundai reveals the IONIQ 6 EV sedan, the eagerly-anticipated follow-up to its IONIQ 5
Hyundai previewed the IONIQ 6 sedan Wednesday, the heavily-anticipated followup to the brand’s popular first battery-electric model, the IONIQ...
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GM is latest to join the race to streamline EV charging
General Motors said Wednesday it will join a growing list of automakers focused on streamlining the EV charging process by equipping its models with...
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To succeed in the mass market, EV makers must focus on cost, not speed
As the global EV industry ramps up and crosses into the mass market, automakers must switch their focus from speed to cost, according to the...
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Unlikely players team up to lead South Korea’s air taxi industry
South Korea, which lacks the VC, entrepreneurial ecosystem and aerospace legacy of the U.S., might be the first to lay the groundwork for taking air...
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Rimac raises more than $500M from Porsche, Softbank and Goldman Sachs
Rimac Group said Tuesday it has raised 500 million euro ($536 million), funds that will help the Croatian startup expand beyond its electric hypercar...
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Lab, crab and robotic rehab
I was in Berkeley a couple of months back, helping TechCrunch get its proverbial ducks in a row before our first big climate event (coming in a few...
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Hyundai plans to spend $10B on EVs, AVs and robotics in the US by 2025
Hyundai said it plans to invest more than $10 billion toward accelerating electrification and autonomous vehicle technology in the U.S. by 2025. Part...
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Hyundai to open $6.5B EV factory in Georgia
Hyundai is the latest automaker to announce plans to open an EV factory in Georgia, the same state where Rivian is preparing to break ground on a...
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Investors reward battery startup SES for losing money (but not too much)
While R&D work continues on its lithium-metal technology, an increasing amount of SES' cash is going toward building facilities in the ramp...
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Getting high on HRI
I know I keep teasing how excited I am about July’s big robotics event, but it’s precisely because of panels like the one we announced earlier...
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The Toyota bZ4X: Solidly middling EV
Toyota isn’t the first automotive brand that pops to mind when it comes to battery electric vehicles. Toyota might be the largest automaker in...
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EVs dominate 2022 World Car Awards
In a nod to the assured arrival of the battery-electric age, electrified vehicles swept the World Car Award presented at the New York Auto Show this...
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Daily Crunch: After 16 months on the job, Better.com CTO Diane Yu steps down
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
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Boston Dynamics’ logistics robot is available for purchase
Stretch thus far hasn’t been nearly as high-profile as Spot. Understandably so. For one thing, it wasn’t Boston Dynamics’ first commercial...
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Hyundai’s solar car roof isn’t as dumb as it sounds
The new hybrid Hyundai Sonata has solar cells built into its roof. After baking in the sun all day, the car can add 3-4 miles to its range. That...
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These are all the automakers that have pulled out Russian operations
Countries around the world are tightening sanctions against Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine last week. As a result,...
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The robotic arm of the law
It’s hard to know where to start this week. Any temporary slowdown we might have experienced over the holidays has been wiped away. Once again, we...
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Mayfair Equity Partners aquires UK adtech platform LoopMe for $120M
Founded back in 2012, the LoopMe adtech/martech startup focused on brand-based mobile advertising, using AI to deliver measurable outcomes for its...
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China’s robotaxis charged ahead in 2021
Autonomous driving startups in China are in an arms race to put passengers in their machine-driven vehicles. Every few weeks, news arrives that...
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The year of living autonomously
Even in the era of the virtual event, it tends to take me a few days to recover from the whirlwind of CES. Frontloading the year’s big hardware...
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At CES 2022, metaverses metaversed the metaverse
In the lead up to CES, I wrote a piece reflecting on top tech of CES 2012. It was an interesting exercise for a number of reasons — not the...
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Consumer Robotics Show
CES has always been a weird show for robotics. That’s not an indictment of the show itself, so much as a comment on the state of robotics...
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Hyundai sends Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot into the metaverse
One thing’s for certain: Hyundai has some grand ambitions for its robotics development. And thus far, the automaker has been willing to put its...
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Motional and Uber partner to launch autonomous delivery pilot in Santa Monica in 2022
Motional, a driverless technology company, is partnering with Uber to launch an autonomous delivery pilot in Santa Monica, according to Motional....
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Hyundai’s Mobile Eccentric Droid tries hard to live up to its name
I’m going to hand it to Hyundai. The company is building some weird robotics, and I’m mostly here for it. In addition to the more straightforward...
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California suspends Pony.ai driverless test permit after crash
Pony.ai, a Chinese autonomous driving startup with an office in the U.S., has paused its driverless pilot fleet in California six months after it was...
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Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz invest in solid-state battery developer Factorial Energy
Factorial Energy, a startup working on solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, has added two more major automakers to its investor sheet:...
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