<p>Electric trucking startup Nikola is hoping to sell what remains of its whole business as early as April, lawyers for the company told a judge Thursday during the first hearing of its bankruptcy case in Delaware. The lawyers claimed Nikola already has at least three interested buyers (who they did not name) and that the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Road rage has been around for a while. A newer phenomenon that&#8217;s cropping up is EV charging rage &#8212; the feeling when a fellow EV owner cuts the line to grab one of the only working charge ports. It&#8217;s common enough that people posted altercations between EV drivers on social media and forums. In at [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Uber has introduced daily fees for auto rickshaw drivers in India to move away from its typical commission-based model. </p>

<p>Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. In one of the latest examples, a startup called Karman+ with ambitions to build autonomous spacecraft that can travel to asteroids and then mine them for materials has [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hydrogen electric trucking startup Nikola Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday after it failed to find a buyer or secure additional funds to maintain operations.&nbsp; Nikola was once a Silicon Valley darling, valued at $30 billion in June 2020 after it went public through a special purpose acquisition merger. But a series of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When he was a senior studying at Texas A&amp;M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no good options for transporting groups of people. Fellow college students heading out for the night together didn&#8217;t have access to on-demand rides with the same convenience, accessibility, and affordability of typical ride-hail platforms, like Uber and Lyft.&nbsp; “Once [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, reports CNN. The firings, which began late Friday night, come as Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has been tapped to help create a new air traffic control system. It&#8217;s not yet clear how many workers were fired, but [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ride-share giant Uber filed a lawsuit Friday against DoorDash, accusing the delivery outfit of stifling competition by intimidating restaurant owners into exclusive deals. Uber alleges in the lawsuit, filed in Superior Court of California, that its chief rival bullied restaurants into only working with DoorDash. Uber claims that DoorDash, which holds the largest share of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As Elon Musk and his acolytes rip through the federal government looking for agencies to throw into the “wood chipper,” a grassroots effort to hit the world’s richest man where it hurts is picking up steam. The courts are busy contesting the actions of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the judicial system is slow [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Turo on Thursday withdrew its plans for an IPO, ending a three-year wait to bring the online car-sharing network to the public marketplace, according to a regulatory filing. Turo, which was founded in 2010, allows private car owners to rent out their vehicles through the startup’s website or app. The company — sometimes described as [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>The $60 billion mega-merger between Honda and Nissan has been called off, in part because of Nissan&#8217;s &#8220;pride and insufficient alarm about its predicament,&#8221; writes Reuters, citing half a dozen sources. The report hints at bad blood on both sides, saying the development also ties to Honda abruptly revising the terms of the merger and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Uber Eats customers in Jersey City can now have their orders delivered by one of Avride’s autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. The launch, which kicked off this week in New Jersey, is Uber’s latest foray into autonomous vehicles and represents an expanding relationship with Avride. The ride-hail and delivery giant deploys AVs on its app in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Mercedes-AMG Petronas team is buying 5,500 metric tons worth of carbon credits from Chestnut Carbon.</p>

<p>Getaround, a company that helps vehicle owners rent out their cars, trucks, and SUVs to other peers, is shutting down its U.S. operations one year after cutting 30% of its North American workforce as part of a restructuring. Its HyreCar business, which it acquired in 2023 for $9.45 million, is also closing. The company said [&hellip;]</p>

<p>May Mobility is deploying autonomous vehicles differently than its peers. Rather than operate robotaxis for individual ride-hail, May has followed a &#8220;gentle on-ramp&#8221; approach to commercialization by offering on-demand shuttles and pooled rides within campuses and along uncomplicated routes. The startup announced Wednesday the launch of its first fully driverless commercial service in Peachtree Corners, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President Donald Trump has chosen Jonathan Morrison, an Apple executive, to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, per a Senate filing. The nomination will be reviewed and voted on by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation before being sent for a full Senate vote.  If he&#8217;s sworn in, Morrison will oversee an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As per an investigation by the Associated Press (AP), Tesla has won a defamation lawsuit against one individual, Zhang Yazhou, who in February 2021 was a passenger in a Tesla Model 3 car that allegedly crashed due to faulty brakes, resulting in a four-day hospital stay for both her parents. Following the accident, Zhang protested [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD unveiled “God’s Eye,” an advanced driver assistance system that will be installed on its entire model lineup, including its $9,600 Seagull hatchback.  BYD founder Wang Chuanfu said at a live streamed event Monday that &#8220;we’re entering an era where autonomous driving is for everyone,” according to The Financial Times.&nbsp; God’s [&hellip;]</p>