Another roboty operation is to Texas and Artcher records $ 300 million for her defensive mission

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Take Ministry of TransportationThe decision to stop financing for the infrastructure program to ship $ 5 billion. As a major reporter Sean Okan Notes in its coverageThis is more than just an attempt by the Trump administration to penetrate in federal renewable energy projects throughout the country, which was a declared priority for the president.

It also shows the increasing conflict between Elon Musk’s policy and the goal of his car company, which is to advance the transition to sustainable energy. Tesla, who runs Musk, the largest shareholder, received $ 31 million in financing from the program.

Through other procedures of well -informed procedures, we also monitor some topics of interest and provide updates at the guarantee. Correspondent Rebecca Billan Tracked Tesla’s dojo programUpdate on the regular. check it out.

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A small bird recently continued to share this bloc, which was confirmed via LinkedIn. Brian LernerThe former Apple software engineer who has spent the past four years has been appointed to Build Robotics, as the manager of the Ford Factory Programs.

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Deals!

Civilians and military personnel attracted dual use-which means that they can be used by civilians-a great amount of investment in 2023 and 2024. This year is formed to be greater as founders benefit from President Donald Trump’s platform.

Artcher AviationThe vertical vehicle developer and electrical take -off, is the latest company that adjusts its mission to obtain those dollars with a sweet double use.

Archer Aviation, which was announced in September 2021 by integrating special purpose acquisition, 300 million dollars collected From institutional investors, including Blackrock and Wellington. Money will be used mainly to accelerate the work of Archer with Anduril to build a hybrid craft (VTOL).

The increase in the total financing of Artcher to about $ 3.36 billion. As the reporter, Rebecca Billan, noticed, this new capital comes from the back of A. 430 million dollars tour In December to finance the new defense program.

Reminder: It was not long ago that Artcher’s strategy to go to the market was a taxi network in several cities in the United States and abroad.

Other deals caught my attention …

Car transportation exchangeStarting the Michigan who has developed a digital market for vehicle transport, A collection of $ 5 million In the series of financing from the series A led by MHS Capital. Golden Ventures, which led the Auto Hauler Exchandic seed tour, in the series A.

alsoIt is a company to manufacture electric buses in Ohio, Collection of $ 49 million In fairness and debt. The tour included stock investment of $ 36 million led by Magnetar. The pulse fund also participated. The total also included credit facilities worth $ 13 million.

Greenspark programThe start -up construction program in New York City for Metal Recycling Industry, revealed last month that it was raised 9.4 million dollars From Zero Infinity Partners, Third Prime, Bienville Capital and many unveiled investors have not been named. We know that now BMW I am the adventures He is one of them.

InnovizLidar, A collection of 40 million dollars Institutional investors at a price of $ 1.39 – a discount that caused the price of his share sharply. As of Wednesday, the company’s shares have decreased by 37 % since Friday of $ 1.59.

JLR It expands the American Technology Center in Portland with a $ 180 million investment It will spread over the next decade. The axis is developing the next generation of connected cars and what it described as “independent driving technologies” in future JLR cars. Date lesson: JLR opened its technology center in 2014 and expanded the facility in 2016, 2017 and 2024.

revelStarting the sub -structure that turned into the shipping degrees that turned into EV, He got a $ 60 million loan From the New York Investment Fund in New York to Al -Akhdar Bank in New York to more than three times the current fast shipping network in New York City.

Self -inspectionAn emerging company based in San Diego, which has developed the acting vehicle examination service, Raise 3 million dollars In a seed tour, he participated in Costanoa Ventures and DVX Ventures, company It is managed by former Tesla president John McKenil. The joining the Westlake Financial tour, which deals with more than a million complex transactions annually.

Promise readings and other tales

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Byd The “eye of God”, which is an advanced aid system to allow the driver to be installed on Full form collectionIncluding Seagult 9600 dollars.

Timing He won a defamation suit Against Chang Yazu, who was in February 2021 passengers in the Tesla Model 3, which was claimed to have been shattered by the wrong brake, which led to a four -day hospital for each of her parents. Tesla has recently released remote measurement data from her car, which apparently showed that the brake was working as intended.

Independent vehicles

Ourora innovation She is still on the right path to publish its commercially independent trucks starting in April 2025, according to Q4 The shareholders ’message. Ura was supposed to be launched at the end of 2024, but he pushed the schedule to check the technique of self -driving.

Lift Plan to bring Fully independent robotsSupported by MobileyeTo its application “Just 2026” in Dallas, with more markets to follow. Lyft does not pour details about the car maker that you will participate with; We know that Marubeni, a Japanese group with experience in managing fleets, will own and finance equipped vehicles Mobileye that will appear on the Lyft app.

I made me a Lyft-Mobileye deal thinking about Texas. It was not long ago that California and Arizona were the main fun for robotics activity. But Texas quickly became focused, not only in the test, but also for commercial operations. Austin is a hot point in Texas AV: Timing Planning to launch The service without a driver in the city next June, and And emo and Uber She was appointed to launch a service soon. Avride He has It was also established in Austin. Meanwhile, self -driving truck companies Aurora and Kodiak Robotics Also a fingerprint in Texas. this Techcrunch article from 2023 Asking a question we may finally answer in 2025.

You may move The first of it was launched Commercial service without a driver completely In Peachtree corners, Georgia. It may have a different operations strategy from Waymo or Zoox. This is not a free wheel service that goes anywhere. Instead, it contains eight pre -defined stations.

And emo The Robotaxi service areas, this time in Los Angeles, continue to expand. The company has He added 10 square miles To include Wesshter and parts of Inglewood and Crenshaw, allowing customers access to common destinations such as Sofi Stadium and HHLA Entertainment.

Electric cars, shipping and batteries

Mercedes -Benz The EV charging network is taken to Canada, starting from Vancouver this year and then to stations in the Toronto Metro in 2026. The German auto industry company has 300 booths in operation and under construction in 11 American states. In total, more than 2500 shipping booths will be published between Canada and the United States

Rural will Selling its commercial electrical trucks For any American company you want – more than a year since an exclusive deal with Backer Amazon.

the people

Jonathan MorrisonApple executive, it was She chose the head the The National Traffic Safety Administration on highways. Morrison was the chief adviser to NHTSA during the first period of Trump. He was formerly head of consulting services for cars and director of legal and organizational affairs at the California New Auto Traders Association.

Horse riding and anxiety economy

The profit season here, and the two best companies for riding riding, Lyft and Uber have informed their fourth and entire year’s profits. This is a quick collapse:

Lift I mentioned A record and profitable of the principles of accounting generally accepted in the whole year in 2024 with a net income of $ 22.8 million, compared to a net loss of $ 340.3 million in 2023. This is good news, but investors have made it clear more attention to the expected directives from the company less than expected. Total reservations in the first quarter.

LYFT says that Q1 is just a slower season, but the company also expects that reservations will be negatively affected by the loss of its partnership with Delta, which Uber stumbled. Another interesting: The Lyft Council has authorized $ 500 million of shares resets, the first time that the company has done this program.

During, Uber Overcoming revenue expectations in The fourth quarterIts revenues increased by 20 % to $ 11.96 billion. The modified Ebitda amounted to $ 1.84 billion for the fourth quarter and 6.84 billion dollars for the full year. However, the shares decreased after the company stated that it had been absent from analysts’ expectations for the arrow’s profitability and offered soft instructions.

The company expects the total reservations between 42 billion dollars and 43.5 billion dollars in the first quarter, which will be less than $ 44.2 billion registered in Q4 2024. The weather in January. “

Hurrications this week

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