<p>The company is also aiming to unlock access to the San Francisco International Airport, although those plans are on a much longer timeline. </p>

<p>Atlanta is the second city to get the so-called &#8220;Waymo on Uber&#8221; service. The companies launched the service, which matches riders with a </p>

<p>Austin Russell, who became a billionaire after his lidar startup Luminar went public, appears to be out as CEO, according to the company&#8217;s board. Luminar&#8217;s board announced Wednesday — the same day of its first-quarter earnings report — it had replaced Russell and appointed Paul Ricci to the role. Ricci is the former chairman and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Heybike ALPHA is an affordable, all-terrain mid-drive e-bike that rides like a traditional push bike and comes in at $1,699. </p>

<p>Electric boat startup Arc has a new model that is its cheapest and most approachable watercraft yet. The new boat is called the Arc Coast, and it will start at $168,000. The company is taking preorders now and says the Coast will ship in 2026. The Coast is what&#8217;s known as a &#8220;center console&#8221; boat, [&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! OK, who placed their bet on General Motors being the landing spot for Aurora co-founder and chief product officer Sterling Anderson? Not me. But here we are. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The judge in Canoo&#8217;s bankruptcy case has blocked an attempt by a mysterious financier to disrupt the sale of the EV startup&#8217;s assets. In a hearing Tuesday, Judge Brendan Linehan Shannon ruled the financier, a U.K.-based man named Charles Garson, lacked standing to request the sale to Canoo&#8217;s own CEO be vacated. While Garson had [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Veteran Chipotle executive Jack Hartung was appointed a member of Tesla’s board of directors Thursday, according to a Tesla filing with the SEC. Hartung’s addition to the board comes as Tesla quietly works to finish its 1950s-style diner and charging station in Los Angeles.  Hartung brings over two decades of experience as a Chipotle CFO, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Lucid Motors set a company record for deliveries in the first quarter of 2025, shipping 3,109 EVs to customers in North America, Europe, and Saudi Arabia. It appears that a new company car program and sales to rental fleets helped it get there.&nbsp; According to a footnote in Lucid Motors’ latest regulatory filing, it sold [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple&#8217;s next-generation version of its popular CarPlay infotainment software is finally launching three years after it was announced. The company said Thursday that this new version of CarPlay &#8212; now known as &#8220;CarPlay Ultra&#8221; &#8212; will start rolling out on new Aston Martin vehicles in the U.S. and Canada, roughly half a year late. While [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Waymo issued a software recall on 1,200 self-driving vehicles after some of its robotaxis were involved in minor collisions with gates, chains, and other gate-like roadway objects. The software update, which was first reported by Reuters, was conducted late last year, according to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Alphabet-owned [&hellip;]</p>

<p>U.S. lawmakers introduced Wednesday the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act in a bid to revise the FAA&#8217;s 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S. soil. The bipartisan legislation &#8212; introduced by Senator Ted Budd (R-NC), Aviation Subcommittee Chair Troy Nehls (R-TX), and Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS) &#8212; would allow supersonic travel, provided no audible sonic boom [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Three years ago, I wrote about the Amazonification of Uber, an evolution of the transportation company into a closed business loop that feeds customers back into other Uber channels. At the time, the focus was on how Uber creates customer stickiness by, for example, actively cross-selling food delivery customers into grocery, and grocery into alcohol, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ride-hail and delivery giant Uber is introducing cheap, fixed-route rides along busy corridors during weekday commute hours in major U.S. cities &#8212; one solution to a world that feels, for most people, more expensive every day.  Starting Wednesday, riders in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco will be able to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Federal railroad regulators are in talks with Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Company (TBC), over a multibillion-dollar Amtrak project, according to The New York Times.  Citing sources familiar with the matter, the NYT reports that Federal Railroad Administration officials have spoken with TBC to learn whether the Musk-owned company could save the agency money [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As serial entrepreneur Joel Milne founded, scaled, and then successfully sold mobile auto repair service startup RepairSmith to AutoNation, he was plagued by a persistent problem.&nbsp; The automotive retail industry has a communication problem. And it&#8217;s an expensive one. Thousands of dealerships and mechanic shops — each one with an array of software systems — [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google is bringing Gemini, its generative AI, to all cars that support Android Auto in the next few months, the company announced at its Android Show ahead of the company&#8217;s 2025 I/O developer conference. The company says adding Gemini functionality to Android Auto and, later this year, to cars that run Google&#8217;s built-in operating system, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Russia’s war in Ukraine and President Donald Trump’s reluctance to support NATO allies has led to a boost in funding for European defense tech. And across industries, startups are leveraging the opportunity. One such company could be U.K.-based startup Vertical Aerospace, which is developing eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft mainly for air-taxi operations. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Lithium-manganese-rich (LMR) batteries should slash costs without sacrificing much range.</p>

<p>Federal safety investigators have sent Tesla a detailed list of questions on its upcoming robotaxi service as part of an investigation into how the company&#8217;s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” software operates in low-visibility conditions. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation wants the additional information about Full Self-Driving (Supervised) &#8212; or &#8220;FSD&#8221; &#8212; [&hellip;]</p>