Tag: truck
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A Q&A With Rivian, the Amazon-Backed Electric Truck Startup
Image Credit: Rivian Rivian Automotive made a great deal of buzz last week with the news that Amazon would lead a $700 million investment from the American truck startup. Even the investment signifies an important landmark for Rivian and the wider shift to sustainable mobility. While terms of the deal weren’t revealed, this signifies Amazon’s…
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How Uber’s internal safety team handles everything from car crashes to assaults
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Uber is quickly growing its security and evaluation staff in Phoenix, the Financial Times reports. Of those 600 workers, about 65 investigators manage everything from car crashes to assault — and so are tasked with becoming both sides of the story. Drivers have told Business Insider the system is incomplete, which often…
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2020 Rivian R1T is an Electric-Powered Super Truck with Range
PLYMOUTH, Michigan — Standing before ussome nine years in the making, is Rivian’s first generation model, the Rivian R1T, also a high-riding, full-sized, electric, twin cab, all-wheel-drive pickup with a claimed 0 to 60 mph time of less than 3 minutes, the capability to ford streams and glow off-road, with a claimed range between fees…
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Musk Confirms Tesla Pickup Will Be ‘Futuristic-Like Cyberpunk’ Truck
‘I actually don’t know if a lot of people will buy this pickup truck or not, but I don’t care.’ — Elon Musk Elon Musk has had his fair share of bad news lately, from fraud charges by the Security and Exchange Commission to losing his spot as Tesla’s chairman of the board. But there’s still…
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Electric Pickup: Bollinger Motors Teases All-Wheel-Drive B2 Truck
Today, Bollinger Motors has released its next all-electric truck theory — this time in the form of a pickup unlike anything else available on the market. Bollinger Motors hopes to bring the “planet ’s all-electric sport utility truck” to life in 2020. When there are no trucks like it nonetheless, a couple companies such as Tesla…
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Tesla’s electric semi truck spotted again on its secret road trip
Where Tesla’s prototype electric Semi — a truck — will go next is anybody’s guess. But in recent days, Elon Musk’s truck was seen in Salt Lake City, Utah. SEE ALSO: Tesla’s electric semi would be the’biggest catalyst for the trucking industry in decades,’ says analyst A girl who said she is a Tesla employee…