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CDK said it “does not have an estimated time frame” for recovery, as car dealerships and auto shops face continued outages.

US car dealerships face ongoing outage after CDK cyberattacks

Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. This week was packed…

SoftBank bets on ex-Argo AI founders, Flexport’s founder cleans house and Cruise digs in

At CES today, BMW unveiled its new i Vision Dee concept car, an E Ink-clad four-door sedan that can shift colors on demand. Why “Dee?” you surely ask. It stands…

BMW reimagines the head-up display

BMW will partner with AirConsole to bring in-car gaming to new vehicles, starting with the BMW 7 series next year.

BMW partners with AirConsole to bring in-car gaming in 2023

Toby Russell is a veteran entrepreneur and helped to found Shift. The company was among the first online-only used car marketplaces and pioneered many of the services now standard across…

Building products for future needs with Bling Capital and Shift on TechCrunch Live

Lightyear, a Dutch startup developing a long-range hybrid solar-powered car, today announced that it has raised €81 million ($81 million) as it prepares to begin production of its first vehicle…

Solar-powered carmaker Lightyear raises $81M and gears up for production

Do you want to run an “easy” startup? Be a coder, and realize that some aspect of your workflow is needlessly complicated. Create a tool to fix that, and spin…

Reviver is building a company one licence plate at a time

While onstage at Tesla’s annual shareholder event, CEO Elon Musk hinted that the automaker would choose the location for a new gigafactory by the end of the year. Musk jokingly…

Tesla’s next gigafactory might be in Canada

Dan Lewis launched Convoy in 2015 into an established industry dominated by several legacy businesses. Now worth $3.8 billion, the company is a leader in bringing digital services to trucking…

Hear how to accelerate slow-moving industries on TechCrunch Live

It describes itself as the “future of urban mobility.” With a 93-mile range, and a 50 mph top speed, the futuristic-looking electric three-wheeler from Nimbus costs $10,000-ish and wants to…

First impressions of the Nimbus 3-wheeled urban transportation pod

Mumbai-based automaker Tata Motors wants to sell 50,000 electric vehicles by the end of the fiscal year ending March 31, the company’s chairperson Natarajan Chandrasekaran said during a shareholders’ meeting…

India’s Tata Motors wants to sell 50,000 EVs by end of fiscal year

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has directed executives to pause all hiring and prepare for job cuts, according to a leaked email that was first viewed by Reuters. Tesla shares fell…

Elon Musk orders hiring freeze, warns of job cuts at Tesla in latest leaked email

Ford said that it wants to restructure its dealership model, including building an e-commerce platform where customers can shop for and buy EVs at non-negotiable prices in an effort to…

Ford wants to restructure its dealership model to boost EV sales

Rivian has hired a new chief operating officer to lead the restructuring and alignment of its operations, the automaker said Thursday. Frank Klein will join the company on June 1…

Rivian hires a new COO amid other leadership and organizational shifts

Despite already struggling to meet production targets, luxury EV maker Lucid has now issued a recall for the Air due to potential issues stemming from the car’s wiring harness.

Lucid recalls all of its 2022 Air EVs due to wiring issues

The world’s fifth-largest automaker will reportedly soon plead guilty to end a multi-year investigation into its efforts to conceal the amount of pollution created by its diesel engines.

Jeep parent company Stellantis will reportedly plead guilty to emissions fraud

Welcome to Online Day at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022! Opportunity knocks just as loud online as it does IRL, but this knock can be heard around the world. You’ll find…

Look what’s happening online today at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

How was your first day at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022? We hope you’re fully caffeinated and ready to roll because day two is packed with groundbreaking tech, opportunities galore and…

Here’s what’s happening on Day Two of TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

Attention mobility enthusiasts! It’s been three long years since our last in-person mobility event, but the day has finally come. Welcome to Day One of TC Sessions: Mobility 2022! Get…

Here’s what’s happening on day 1 of TC Sessions: Mobility

Attention mobility startups, professionals, investors and enthusiasts! You have just 48 hours remaining to save $200 on TC Sessions: Mobility 2022, our first in-person mobility event since 2019. The event…

48 hours left to save $200 on TC Sessions: Mobility

We’re less than seven days away from TC Sessions: Mobility 2022, our first in-person mobility event since 2019. The event takes place on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California with…

Fewer than 7 Days until TC Sessions: Mobility

Raquel Urtasun founded Waabi in 2021 after spending nearly three years as Uber’s R&D head of Advanced Technology Group (ATG). Waabi’s mission is to develop an AI-first approach to speed…

Raising monster rounds for self-driving mobility startups on TechCrunch Live

Robots have transformed automation across industries such as agtech, automotive, logistics, manufacturing and warehousing. Yet even the most advanced robots typically work in restricted workcells away from people due to…

Rodney Brooks and Clara Vu will discuss human-robot interaction at TC Sessions: Robotics 2022

Two days of in-person programming awaiting you at TC Sessions: Mobility, including topic-focused roundtable discussions.

Don’t miss the roundtable roundup at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

QED incubated this auto financing company in 2016 and Kevin Bennett became CEO in 2018 and soon after raised its first seed round. It started as MotoRefi, and rebranded in…

Building a better mobility fintech startup on TechCrunch Live

When the CEO of FedEx, the global leader in logistics, promises “an enormous effort towards autonomous trucks” this summer, wisdom — conventional or otherwise — says listen up, things are…

Aurora’s Sterling Anderson and FedEx’s Rebecca Yeung discuss the future of autonomous trucking at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

Amid a pandemic and unrest over gasoline prices, investors are still pouring money into Latin America’s logistics and shipping businesses.

Why Latin America’s freight-forwarding opportunity is still attracting capital

Transportation startup DeltaX is accelerating its plans to digitize the trucking industry in its native Bolivia and beyond thanks to a recent $1 million seed funding round.

DeltaX wants to digitize the Andean region’s trucking sector

Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo made an unusual leadership move last year: employing two executives it filled its CEO spot that had been vacated by John Krafcik. The new co-CEO role…

Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 to talk about progress and pitfalls of scaling robotaxis

In the 18 months since the Zoox robotaxi made its virtual debut, the custom-built vehicle has been largely under wraps. That is, until TC Sessions: Mobility 2022, a two-day in-person…

Meet the Zoox robotaxi alongside co-founder Jesse Levinson at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022