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BMW i Ventures makes strategic investment in electric bus company Proterra; part of $55M round

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Generation Investment Management LLP, a long-term, sustainability focused investment firm led the round, which was joined by BMW i Ventures, the corporate venture capital team founded by BMW Group in 2011. —Zach Barasz, partner at BMW i Ventures.

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Microsoft joins Baidu Apollo project to advance autonomous driving; global Azure cloud support

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—,Kevin Dallas, corporate vice president, Microsoft. We are excited to have Microsoft as part of the Apollo alliance. By using Azure, our partners outside of China will have access to a trustworthy and secure public cloud, enabling them to focus on innovating instead of building their own cloud-based infrastructure.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

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In part he is offended by what he regards as the use of unreliable software in mission-critical applications. O’Dowd: I was in a [Tesla] car, as a passenger, testing on a country road, and a BMW approached. Cruise just announced they were going to open Dallas and Houston. He even toyed with a one-issue campaign for the U.S.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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Automakers have entered this market with mixed results, building substantial membership levels in only a few years, but they are also challenged with the new MaaS business model. The company rebranded as Share Now in fall 2019 as BMW’s Reach Now was shut down and folded in with Car2go. In the U.S. It is now owned by Stellantis.

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