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Toyota’s Woven Planet acquires Lyft’s Level 5 self-driving division

Toyota Motor Group Subsidiary Woven Planet has announced the completed acquisition of Level 5, the self-driving division of rideshare veteran Lyft, Inc. The completed transaction is one of several made by Toyota and its subsidiaries in 2021, specifically pertaining to autonomous software and other self-driving technologies. At this point in a world abundant with rideshare options, most people…
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Tesla Semi electric truck is finally about to go into production

After years of delays, Tesla is finally about to start production of Tesla Semi, its all-electric semi-truck. The whole truck industry is watching. While there are already a few electric trucks on the road, none of them have the specs enabling longer range hauling in a class 8 semi-truck, like the Tesla Semi is promising. When launching Tesla Semi in 2017, the automaker said that the electric…
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Charging station straggler Indiana to spend $5.5M to catch up

Indiana has been slow to install electric car chargers, but the Hoosier State is now going to give eight electric utilities, including Duke Energy, NIPSCO, and AES Indiana, more than $5.5 million to set up 61 EV fast charging stations. The money will come from the Volkswagen settlement over its Clean Air Act violations. There are currently only around 40 public fast charging stations in…
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Tesla is closing its first Supercharger station over security concerns

Tesla is closing its Supercharger station at its design studio in Los Angeles, its very first Supercharger, reportedly over security concerns. Almost a decade ago, Tesla opened the first Supercharger station, and it happened to be at its own design studio near the Hawthorne airport in Los Angeles. It features one of Tesla’s rare “Supercharger towers.” The automaker later ended up…
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