Category: News
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The Station: Cruise cuts, Waymo snags more cash, and a VC Mobility survey
The Station is a newsletter. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it each Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, I’m host Kirsten Korosec, mature transport reporter at TechCrunch. If you’re thinking about all the future and ways people and packages go from Point A to…
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ICYMI: Turtle Transfer, Parks Reopen & Giant Lizards in Georgia
Mexico seizes a dispatch of 15,000 freshwater turtles, some of these endangered species, even en route to China. The US Fish and Wildlife Service licenses endangered species status to Pacific fishers from the southern Sierra Nevada, but denies it from the bulk of the mustelid’s range, from Northern California to the Canadian border. The US death toll in the…
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Tesla Model 3 Owner Locks Carjacker Inside With The Vehicle’s App
Among the handy little characteristics of this Tesla Model 3 is you may use your smartphone rather than the supplied keycard. Even though this is a convenience feature, the owner of a Model 3 discovered it helps with security. Even the Barstow Police Department in California say that on May 8, also a guy by…
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2021 BMW 2-Series Active Tourer: Engines, Technology & Everything Else We Know
In an honest world, BMW’s 2-Series Active Tourer won’t even get your heart racing. Sure, it’therefore it of a usefulness to transport around potting mixture and meander off into the bowls club , although a premium minivan. Talking, it lacks that BMW spirit. Nevertheless with that blue badging it manages to market, which is the…
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Why Tesla’s Fremont Factory needed to reopen, with or without permission
It was imperative for Tesla to unveil its own Fremont factory. Before I dive into my private thoughts on Tesla’s due to its Fremont factory, I just want to reinforce that this is my view, and I understand this might rub some folks the wrong way, but that’s not exactly the aim. I encourage anyone…
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Local health authorities say Tesla can begin to restart factory operations on May 18 if proper safety plans are in place
Business Insider/Samantha Lee Local health officials announced on Tuesday that Tesla can begin to maximize its activities at its Fremont, California, factory this week and might have the ability to restart some operations from May 18 if appropriate safety measures are in place and are enforced. At a announcement shared on Twitter on Tuesday, the…
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Tesla assigns former paint operations chief as Fremont’s new production head
Tesla officially has a new Head of Production at its Fremont manufacturing plant in Northern California: Richard Miller. An email from Tesla that was recently sent to company employees announced Richard Miller’s promotion from Head of Paint Operations to Overall Head of Production at Fremont on Monday, May 11, TechCrunch reported. The internal communication cited…
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Nearly 50 UK lawmakers demanded Amazon-backed unicorn Deliveroo provide PPE and sick pay for its food delivery riders
LUDOVIC MARIN / Getty UK lawmakers have demanded that Amazon-backed Deliveroo improve how it treats its delivery riders during the pandemic. Around 50 MPs signed a letter requesting adequate PPE for all riders; full pay for riders who contract COVID-19 or have to self isolate because of COVID-19; a halt on terminations until the end…
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Tesla just reportedly checked out Tulsa and Austin as potential sites for its Cybertruck factory
Reuters Tesla representatives visited Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Austin, Texas, this week to scope out a potential site for its own fifth Gigafactory, based on a TechCrunch report. The most recent Gigafactory will create the Tesla Cybertruck and Model Y. Tesla will announce which of those two finalist cities will be the site of this Gigafactory…
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The Boring Company Finishes Digging Tunnels In Las Vegas
Elon Musk’therefore The Boring Company has been from the news lately but recently confirmed it has finished digging another tunnel underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center as part of the ‘Loop’ platform it’s building. The very first of the two tunnels was ended up in February and The Verge reports that workers will now start…