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General Motors agrees California's vehicle emissions standard under its Clean Air Act
Chinese EV makers, XPeng, Nio, Baidu and Polestar use Nvidia while Tesla designs own chip
Best-selling EVs in China for 2021: Hongguan Mini, Qin, Model Y, Model 3, Han and more
Tesla sold 71K China-made vehicles in December, the highest monthly record
Tesla offers "assertive" driving mode that may perform rolling stops in its Full Self-Driving beta
Tesla pushes back Cybertruck initial production plan to early 2023
Tesla, Elon Musk criticized California's proposal to cut solar energy incentive as anti-environment
California DMV determining Tesla's driver assistance tech
Dallas City approved $3M incentives to attract Ford's self-driving vehicle facility
Volkswagen sales dropped 8% in 2021 due to chip shortage, but doubled EV delivery
Volkswagen shuts Tianjin, China plants due to COVID outbreaks
Renault announced to go fully electric by 2030
Rivian produced 1K EVs in 2021 in line with its lowered target
Rivian will sponsor free Waypoint chargers for public in national parks in the US
XPeng invested to Zvision Technology, a Chinese LiDAR sensor startup
Aptive acquires Wind River, a software provider, with $4.3B valuation
EVage, a supplier of Amazon India's EV trucks, raised $28M funding
Hyundai Motor announced 'Continue', a global CSV project
Waymo Via will launch their first self-driving freight for J.B Hunt Transport Services
Nikola TreBEV qualified by California Air Resources Board for zero-emission incentive project
Local Motors, built Olli and Rally Fighter, shot down operations
DHL and Formula E extended partnership for World Championship logistics
Foton Mobility teamed up with BOC to roll-out hydrogen buses in AUS and NZL
City of Montpellier, France, will replace hydrogen fuel cell buses with battery-electric buses
Bolt raised $709M at $8.4B valuation to expand transportation and food delivery businesses
Spin, Ford's e-scooter company, leaves all open markets and focuses on limited vendor markets
Nuro unveiled 3rd-gen autonomous delivery robot with external airbag and temp controller
Podbike will deliver their first product, Frikar, the 4 wheeled e-bike
Bugatti's first EV is an e-scooter, co-developed with Bytech International
Lime launched Gen4 e-bikes having swappable battery in Washington DC
Arive, an instant delivery service, raised $20M Series A funding
Turo, a peer to peer car-sharing startup files IPO to go public
Hero Electric, Indian e-scooter company, will deliver 1K e-scooter to Turtle Mobility
City of Milan approved a new bike path network plan to connect 80% of the city
Gogoro's e-scooter battery swap stations will exceed gas stations soon in Taiwan
KYMCO, Taiwanese scooter company, announced Like 125 EV to enter EU market
Deliveroo and HumanForest partner to launch affordable payment model for delivery riders
Dott won a e-bike sharing tender for the City of Marseille, France
Moove, African mobility fintech company, expands operations to Kenya
HeyCharge, an underground EV charging solution, raised $4.7M seed round
TMobile acquired Octopus Interactive, a display ad company with ride-sharing vehicles
VinFast partners with What3Words for the navigation system in new EV line-up
TomTom announced new AmiGo feature for more personalized navigation experience
SpaceX's launch and catch tower is unveiled with targeting date on Feb 28
Airbus outpaced Boeing in Jet Deliveries for 3 straight years including 2021
Zypp Electric partnered with TSAW Drones for drone delivery in Indian cities
Reports & Articles
China's robotaxis charged ahead in 2021 (TechCrunch)
The year of living autonomously - Actuator: Another look at the robotic trends that will define 2022 (TechCrunch)
States carve out billions in budgets for electric vehicle surge (The Hill)
How 'feature bloat' is driving the chip shortage (TechCrunch)
Is LiDAR on its way out? The business case for saying goodbye (ZDNet)
With new German Gigafactory, Tesla looks to build on big lead in surging European EV sales (Forbes)
Why Tesla soared as other automakers struggled to make cars (The New York Times)
EV sales rising ahead of schedule in EU & UK, predicted to overtake gasoline vehicles by 2025 (electreck)
Bentley Motors blends tech and coachbuilding in the 2022 Continental GT Speed (TechCrunch)
Motional is dispatching robotaxis to a city near you (Korea JoongAng Daily)
Robotaxi software platforms on the move (EETimes Asia)
Lyft, Bird execs say subsidies, infrastructure crucial to expanding micromobility (Smartcitiesdive)