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Cruise And Its Parent Company, General Motors, Must Pay $1.5 Million Penalty

October 3, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Cruise, Electric vehicles, gm, Manufacturing, national highway traffic safety administration (nhtsa), nhtsa, policy & politics, robotaxis, tesla

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:55:59 +0000

General Motors (GM) CEO Mary Barra admitted earlier this year that the company faltered in 3 important areas in 2023: manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs), addressing software issues, and making sense of its self-driving division called Cruise. The last area of concern has reared its ugly head again, as the autonomous … [continued]

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Critique of ARK Analysts’ Tesla Robotaxi Projections Misses Some Key Points, But ARK Might Too

June 26, 2024 admin alphabet, Amazon, autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Cruise, electric cars, Electric vehicles, green economy, investment, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla fsd (full self driving), waymo, zoox

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 14:31:30 +0000

Checking out the Friday critique of “Tesla’s $9 Trillion Robotaxi Dreams” on Seeking Alpha that Carolyn Fortuna just covered, a few things jumped out to me. A few things seem to be missed, misunderstood, or even misleading from the analysts. But, then again, that doesn’t mean the ARK analysis is … [continued]

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11 Top Cleantech Stories of the Week

December 1, 2023 admin batteries, byd, cars, clean transport, Cruise, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, Hyundai, lithium-ion batteries, McDonalds, policy & politics, Volkswagen

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:24:18 +0000

For this weekly newsletter, I’m highlighting 11 core stories that I think stand out above the rest. We cover so … [continued]

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Did Cruise Just Take On Too Much Risk?

November 27, 2023 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Cruise, Electric vehicles, gm, tesla, waymo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 08:29:00 +0000

We’ve been discussing Cruise and robotaxis for weeks following the unfortunate death of a pedestrian in San Francisco. It was … [continued]

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Seppuku At GM’s Cruise Division Shows The Necessity Of Transparency, But That May Not Be Enough

November 23, 2023 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Cruise, Electric vehicles, gm, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:49:33 +0000

As we’ve written about recently, GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle and robotaxi division is in crisis. After a particularly nasty crash … [continued]

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Cruise Robotaxis Entering More Cities

May 20, 2023 admin autonomous vehicles, California, cars, chevy bolt, clean transport, Cruise, cruise automation, Dallas, electric cars, Electric vehicles, gm, houston, robotaxis, san francisco, texas

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 00:29:24 +0000

Cruise has slowly been expanding its network of robotaxis and their availability in certain markets. Though, it’s been a long time since the company entered new cities … until now. Cruise is now coming to Houston and Dallas. While Cruise vehicles will be fully self driving and operate even without safety drivers in other markets, […]

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GM Keeps Its Promise As Cruise Arrives In Austin

December 30, 2022 admin AUSTIN, autonomous cars, autonomous vehicles, cars, clean transport, Cruise, electric cars, Electric vehicles, gm, robotaxis, tesla

Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 21:30:32 +0000

GM’s Robotaxi Service Starts Work in Tesla’s Back Yard

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Cruise Expands Robotaxi Service in San Francisco Massively

November 4, 2022 admin autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Cruise, cruise automation, Electric vehicles, gm, kyle vogt

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 03:57:19 +0000

One criticism of lidar-using robotaxi startups has long been the limited geographies in which they operate. Waymo started in a corner of Phoenix, and then a corner of San Francisco, and it isn’t much beyond those starting spots still! Cruise Automation, aka Cruise, started in a corner of San Francisco. Cruise, however, has just expanded […]

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Similarities Between Tesla FSD And Cruise, Argo AI, & Waymo You Might Not Have Noticed

October 11, 2022 admin AI, argo ai, autonomous vehicles, cars, clean transport, Cruise, electric cars, Electric vehicles, robotaxis, self-driving car, tesla, tesla fsd beta, tesla full self-driving, waymo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 17:48:17 +0000

I saw many takes on Tesla AI Day 2022 that fell into a couple of main buckets. Those were mostly about the robot, Optimus, and we’ve published articles covering that at length. However, I stumbled across some critiques of the FSD Beta portion of the presentation that I found surprising and interesting. These mostly came […]

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Cruise Issues Robotaxi Recall (Software Recall) After Passenger Injured

September 2, 2022 admin autonomous vehicles, cars, clean transport, Cruise, electric cars, Electric vehicles, gm, robotaxis

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:27:13 +0000

Cruise, one of the first robotaxi companies in the world, has been operating in the San Francisco area for a couple of months. The service hasn’t always been smooth sailing, but there also hasn’t been any dramatically bad or concerning news. This past week, though, Cruise (which GM is the majority owner of) rolled out […]

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