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Ford and Volkswagen expand global collaboration to include EVs, invest in Argo AI

Green Car Congress

In 2017, Ford announced it would invest $1 billion over five years in Argo AI—an artificial intelligence software startup founded by former Google and Uber leaders—to develop an SAE Level 4 virtual driver system for the automaker’s autonomous vehicle coming in 2021, and for potential license to other companies. Earlier post.).

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Can Software Save the World at a Profit?

Cars That Think

Collin Gutman is managing partner of SaaS Ventures , a venture capital fund based in Miami and Washington, D.C., It launched its first fund of $20 million in 2017 and second $50 million fund in 2020. So we did invest in Optera, and started looking for other startups aiming to address this new market. Everything else is details.

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One EV enthusiast leads to anothe

Electric Auto Association

For me, as founder and leader of Drive Electric Dayton , I quickly realized that our Electric Auto Association (EAA) chapter, which I started in 2017 as a Facebook group for equally-excited future Tesla Model 3 owners, is part of a collection of organizations (per the figure above).

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One EV enthusiast leads to another

Electric Auto Association

For me, as founder and leader of Drive Electric Dayton , I quickly realized that our Electric Auto Association (EAA) chapter, which I started in 2017 as a Facebook group for equally-excited future Tesla Model 3 owners, is part of a collection of organizations (per the figure above).

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