<p>Buzzy new EV startup Slate Auto has racked up more than 100,000 reservations for its customizable low-cost electric pickup truck, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch. Slate crossed the milestone over the weekend, just a little more than two weeks after coming out of stealth mode and unveiling the truck at an event in Los [&hellip;]</p>

<p>General Motors has turned to Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry, to oversee its entire product line of gas-powered and electric vehicles, in a newly created job that will touch nearly every department at the U.S. automaker. The new VP of global product and chief product officer position will cover the entire [&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! Remember last week when Aurora met a major milestone — just squeaking by under its own deadline — and launched a driverless self-driving truck service? Welp, this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In 2025, Aurora plans to operate fully driverless trucks at night, in poor weather, and beyond Houston and Dallas and into El Paso and Phoenix. </p>

<p>Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the nascent autonomous vehicle sector and co-founder of Aurora, is resigning just a week after the company launched its commercial self-driving truck service in Texas. Anderson held the chief product officer position at Aurora. The resignation was posted in a regulatory filing along with the company&#8217;s first-quarter earnings report. His [&hellip;]</p>

<p>China&#8217;s Geely has offered to take its EV startup Zeekr private, one year after the company debuted on the NYSE. </p>

<p>Hims &amp; Hers, the telehealth and wellness company, has hired a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry as its next chief technology officer. The move, according to Hims &amp; Hers co-founder and CEO Andrew Dudum, was intentional. Hims &amp; Hers on Thursday said its next CTO would be Mo Elshenawy, the former president and CTO [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The venture arm of Bosch has a new $270 million fund that will continue its tradition of investing in deep-tech startups. This time, however, Bosch Ventures plans to put more of its money into North American startups. Launched in 2007, Bosch Ventures is now on its sixth fund. And while the corporate VC is technically [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tesla&#8217;s attempt to trademark the term &#8220;Robotaxi&#8221; in reference to its vehicles has been refused by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for being too generic, according to a new filing. Another application by Tesla to trademark the term &#8220;Robotaxi&#8221; for its upcoming ride-hailing service is still under examination by the office. In addition, applications [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Lucid Motors has been working through some quality &#8220;hiccups&#8221; in the early stages of delivering its long-awaited electric SUV, according to interim CEO Marc Winterhoff. &#8220;It is true that we had some technical issues that we had to overcome around software&#8221; and the Gravity&#8217;s heads-up display, Winterhoff said on a conference call Tuesday. &#8220;There have [&hellip;]</p>

<p>SpaceX’s satellite internet service, Starlink, is directly benefiting from the Trump administration&#8217;s tariff trade war, according to leaked State Department memos obtained by the Washington Post.   The memos show the U.S. pushing countries to adopt Starlink. Some show that countries believe that doing so could help lubricate their U.S. trade and tariff negotiations. One memo [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A group of investors are considering a plan to inject another $30 million into BluSmart in a bid to revive the Indian cab-hailing startup, which abruptly halted operations last month, TechCrunch has learned. The proposal from these existing investors has a catch: It&#8217;s contingent on BluSmart co-founder Anmol Singh Jaggi agreeing to resign. The proposed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Uber has committed $100 million to Chinese robotaxi firm WeRide as they expand to 15 more cities.</p>

<p>Ford is raising the price of the all-electric Mustang Mach-E SUV and popular entry-level Maverick pickup by as much as $2,000 due to the import taxes President Donald Trump is placing on vehicles made in Mexico, according to Reuters. Higher prices could make it harder for traditional automakers like Ford to sell their EVs. Ford [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Breathe has developed a suite of tools that it says helps automakers and others get the most out of their batteries.</p>

<p>Mitsubishi Motors is in talks with Taiwan-based Foxconn&#8217;s EV division to source an EV model for the Australia and New Zealand markets.</p>

<p>Rivian said in its earnings report Tuesday it will likely deliver fewer vehicles this year than previously forecasted due to President Trump&#8217;s tariffs and other regulatory changes, making it the latest automaker to be affected by the new administration&#8217;s chaotic economic policies. The company said Tuesday it expects to deliver between 40,000 and 46,000 EVs [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, paused its driverless testing program for more than a week and issued a voluntary recall of its software following a crash in Las Vegas, according to the company and a filing with federal safety regulators. The April 8 crash, which involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle and a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Uber announced its third partnership with a Chinese autonomous vehicle company this week, revealing the ride-hail and delivery giant&#8217;s appetite for global domination in the emerging robotaxi sector. Uber said Tuesday it would work with Guangzhou-based Pony AI, which late last year went public on the Nasdaq at a $5.25 billion valuation, to launch robotaxis [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nearly three years after unveiling the concept version of the flagship Cadillac Celestiq EV, GM has finally released the real thing: a &#8220;mid-$300,000&#8221; electric vehicle that oozes luxury and a come-gawk-at-me exterior designed to lure in passersby. But is this bespoke EV enough for Cadillac to regain its position as the “Standard of the World”? [&hellip;]</p>