<p>Uber executive Sachin Kansal has a reputation for dogfooding — the tactic of using one&#8217;s own products and services to root out problems and make improvements. As he ascended Uber&#8217;s executive ladder over the past eight years, Kansal ratcheted up 700 trips delivering food or people to their destinations. Lengthy reports, often dozens of pages [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Infineon Technologies has partnered with CDIL Semiconductors to tap into emerging business cases including light EVs and battery storage solutions in India.</p>

<p>The CEO of Canoo is buying nearly all of the defunct EV startup&#8217;s assets out of bankruptcy, according to a court filing. A new entity controlled by the CEO, Anthony Aquila, has offered to purchase &#8220;substantially all&#8221; of the assets for $4 million in cash. The sale will also wipe clean a more-than-$11 million debt [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President Donald Trump has delayed tariffs on automobile imports from Canada and Mexico for one month after requests from executives at the Big Three automakers &#8212; General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis &#8212; with the expectation that automakers will move any offshore operations to the United States by April 2. The reprieve, which Politico first reported, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Volkswagen&#8217;s ultra-cheap EV called the ID EVERY1 — a small four-door hatchback revealed Wednesday — will be the first to roll out with software and architecture from Rivian, according to a source familiar with the new model. The EV is expected to go into production in 2027 with a starting price of 20,000 euros ($21,500). [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hyundai Motor Company and Avride have agreed to jointly develop autonomous vehicles in a tie up that will deepen the relationship between the two companies. The deal will focus on autonomous vehicle technology designed for robotaxis. The two companies will also look into other use cases for the technology, including autonomous delivery services using Avride&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chinese ride-hail firm Didi is on the hunt for fresh funds for its autonomous vehicle technology unit that could value it at $5 billion, according to Bloomberg News. Investor interest in self-driving cars is high in China on the backs of IPOs from WeRide and Pony AI, which have a market capitalization of $4.7 billion [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Uber users in Austin now have a choice between a Waymo robotaxi and a human driver. The two companies officially launched Tuesday the &#8220;Waymo on Uber&#8221; robotaxi service in Austin as part of a partnership that has deepened in recent months. The launch comes just days before SXSW, the annual tech, music, film, and comedy [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Uber has started testing its teenagers-focused service, Uber for Teens, in India.</p>

<p>Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz has donated a fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, the department has confirmed to TechCrunch. The Cybertruck fleet is the latest entry in a list of gifts Horowitz has given to the Las Vegas police &#8212; a relationship TechCrunch revealed in detail late last year. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Lucid Motors delivered a surprise this week when it announced that CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson was resigning. Speculation about the departure, which includes vacating a board [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Avride sidewalk bots will start delivering restaurant orders and groceries in central Tokyo this week through a partnership with e-commerce giant Rakuten, the latest commercial expansion by the Yandex spinout into Northeast Asia. The Austin-based autonomous vehicle startup is one of four projects under Nebius Group, a Netherlands-based company formerly called Yandex NV that sold [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Since its launch in 2018 as a ride-hailing service in Togo, Gozem has steadily expanded across French-speaking West Africa, integrating a wide range of services as it sought to become a super app. The company now offers ride-hailing, commerce, vehicle financing, and digital banking across Togo, Benin, Gabon, and Cameroon. Now, in a bid to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Lucid Motors is changing CEOs for the first time in nearly six years. The company announced Tuesday that Peter Rawlinson is stepping down from the CEO and CTO roles that he&#8217;s held since before the company went public. Rawlinson has also left Lucid&#8217;s board, according to a regulatory filing. Lucid appointed its chief operating officer [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Federal Aviation Administration has started testing the use of SpaceX Starlink satellite internet terminals in the national airspace system, nearly two years after Verizon was awarded a $2 billion contract to perform similar work. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk claimed on his social media platform X that the Verizon system &#8220;is not working [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Europe&#8217;s top court has weighed in to clarify the rules around interoperability requirements on Big Tech in a referral on a case related to Google&#8217;s Android Auto platform. Back in 2021, the tech giant was hit with a €100 million antitrust fine by Italy&#8217;s competition authority for refusing to let a third-party electric car charging [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Freight forwarding and logistics company Flexport is rolling out a suite of new products and features, many of which use AI, in what the company says will be the first in a series of semi-annual announcements of this kind.  If that sounds similar to Airbnb’s approach to seasonal product announcements, that’s because it was the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 is as good as ever, but doesn’t play well with Tesla Superchargers at the moment.</p>

<p>On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Technologies’ first electric aircraft to be built on its new scaled production line. Kyle Clark, Beta’s enigmatic founder and CEO, piloted the Alia CX300 — one of the startup&#8217;s two aircraft models [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge. The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to [&hellip;]</p>