#SeoTips Waymo has closed a $5.6 billion Series C funding round led by parent company Alphabet and joined by a who’s who of Silicon Valley venture firms. Alphabet had previously announced in July that it was pledging another $5 billion to Waymo, bu...
Friday, October 25, 2024
Waymo raises $5.6B from Alphabet, a16z, Silver Lake, and more #Ecommerce
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Fisker bankruptcy hits major speed bump as fleet sale is now in question #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Fisker’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy has hit a major snag, as the company buying the startup’s remaining fleet of electric SUVs says it might not complete the purchase because of a surprising technical issue. The buyer, a New York-area leasing c...
Monday, October 7, 2024
Lucid Motors sets third straight quarterly sales record ahead of Gravity SUV launch #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Lucid Motors has now officially sold more EVs this year than it did in all of last year, and with three months to go in 2024. The milestone comes after Lucid announced Monday it delivered 2,781 vehicles in the third quarter of 2024. That’s...
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Fisker’s HQ abandoned in “complete disarray” with apparent hazardous waste, clay models left behind #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The headquarters Fisker used in its waning days was recently abandoned and left in “complete disarray,” with drums of apparent hazardous waste, automotive equipment, and even vehicles and full-size clay models left behind, according to the...
Friday, October 4, 2024
Rivian deliveries fall as component shortage slows production #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Rivian said on Friday it will build fewer vehicles this year than it did in 2023 due to a supply chain problem that popped up in the third quarter and has now “become more acute in recent weeks.” The company did not specify the components ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
From dinners with Travis Kalanick to fired after maternity leave: One of CloudKitchens’ earliest employees is suing #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Isabella Vincenza, one of CloudKitchens’ earliest employees, never imagined she would be suing her now-former employer. Hired as a full-time salesperson in 2018, she became a mainstay at President’s Club dinners hosted by CEO Travis Kalani...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Rivian lost $1.46B in Q2 as it drives toward a VW-linked future #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Rivian’s financial losses have crept up as it pushed out the last of its first-generation R1 trucks and SUVs in favor of newer, more cost-efficient versions — a sign of just how much the company could use the $5 billion it could get as par...
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Google Maps announces new features and somehow none of them are ‘pause navigation’ #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Look, we’ve all been there. You’re on a road trip and you pull off the highway for some food or fuel. And then Google Maps starts (rudely) yelling at you to get back on the road. The company has all the money and AI chips in the world and ...
Monday, July 8, 2024
Lucid Motors sets new record for EV deliveries as it seeks ‘escape velocity’ #Ecommerce
#SeoTips These efforts have come as Lucid is looking to start building its Gravity SUV by the end of this year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Sean O'Kane, Khareem Sudlow ...
Saturday, June 22, 2024
The fight over Fisker’s assets is already heating up #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Fisker is just a few days into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the fight over its assets is already charged, with one lawyer claiming the startup has been liquidating assets “outside the court’s supervision.” At issue is the relationship be...
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Ford’s secretive, low-cost EV team is growing with talent from Rivian, Tesla and Apple #Ecommerce
#SeoTips A TechCrunch review of LinkedIn data found that Ford has built this team up to around 300 employees over the last year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Sean O'Kane, Khareem Sudl...
Friday, May 10, 2024
Fisker Ocean faces fourth federal safety probe #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The U.S.' NHTSA has opened a fourth investigation into the Fisker Ocean SUV, spurred by multiple claims of "inadvertent Automatic Emergency Braking." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow....
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Fisker stiffed the engineering firm developing its low-cost EV and pickup truck, lawsuit claims #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Henrik Fisker stood on a stage last August and proudly debuted two prototypes designed to catapult his eponymous EV startup Fisker into the mainstream. There was the Pear, a low-cost EV meant for the masses, and the Alaska, Fisker’s entry ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Fisker plans more layoffs as cash dwindles and bankruptcy looms #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Fisker says it’s planning more layoffs less than two months after cutting 15% of its workforce, as the EV startup scrambles to raise cash to stay alive. Fisker expects to seek bankruptcy protection within the next 30 days if it can’t come ...
Monday, April 15, 2024
Tesla is reportedly laying off more than 10% of its global workforce #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Tesla is laying off thousands of employees as it tries to simultaneously cut costs and boost productivity, according to an internal email sent to staff by CEO Elon Musk, Electrek and Bloomberg News reported. The electric automaker is cutti...
Friday, April 5, 2024
Tesla slashes Model Y inventory prices by as much as $7,000 #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Tesla is dropping prices of unsold Model Y SUVs in the U.S. by thousands of dollars in an attempt to clear out an unprecedented backlog of inventory. Many long-range and performance Model Ys are now selling for $5,000 less than their origi...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Tesla is pushing a free one-month trial of its FSD Beta driver-assistance software to US customers #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Tesla is about to start giving every customer in the U.S. a one-month trial of its $12,000 driver-assistance system, which it calls Full Self-Driving Beta, provided they have a car with the compatible hardware. The company is also reported...
Monday, March 25, 2024
Lucid Motors raises another $1 billion from Saudi Arabia as it searches for luxury EV buyers #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Lucid Motors is raising another $1 billion from its biggest financial backer, Saudi Arabia, as it looks to blunt the high costs associated with building and selling its luxury electric sedan. The company announced in a Monday morning regul...
Monday, January 29, 2024
Arrival’s spectacular fall continues with a delisting from Nasdaq #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Commercial EV startup Arrival is being removed from the Nasdaq stock exchange as it speeds toward dissolution. The company, which went pubic after merging with a special purpose acquisition company, announced Monday morning that the Nasdaq...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Tesla’s cheapest cars helped it notch another record year #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Tesla shipped a record number of electric vehicles in the fourth quarter to help it edge out its targets for the year. The company delivered 1.81 million EVs in 2023 and built 1.85 million, according to a Tuesday morning press release. Tho...