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Werner piloting Aurora’s autonomous trucks on 600-mile route in Texas

Green Car Congress

Aurora Innovation and Werner Enterprises, a premier transportation and logistics provider, announced a collaboration and commercial pilot to test and deploy safely autonomous trucks on one of the most commercially active and critical stretches of highway in the US. trucking industry: Atlanta to Los Angeles.

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GM and MP Materials enter long-term supply agreement to scale rare earth magnet sourcing and production in US

Green Car Congress

This strategic collaboration seeks to accelerate the restoration of the US rare earth supply chain at commercial scale with high resiliency and environmental sustainability. Our work with MP Materials is another bold step forward that will help ensure that we meet our goal to lead the EV industry in North America in more than just sales.

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VinFast Still Kicking and Planning to Show Vehicles at CES

The Truth About Cars

But it has been building momentum quickly thanks to being a subsidiary of the multinational concomorate Vingroup. Originally founded in Ukraine as the Technocom food processing firm in 1993, Vingroup has branched out into just about every industry relevant in Southeast Asia. The Vietnamese car company has only been around since 2017.

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Rivian launches jobs in Germany, Netherlands ahead of European expansion

Teslarati

The Delivery and Field Operations position is for an Enterprise Launch Program Manager who will “partner with multiple internal and external stakeholders to support the build-out of a seamless deployment strategy across a diverse product line of commercial vehicles across Europe.” Photo: Rivian). or the U.K.,

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

Cars That Think

Most of the eVTOLs being designed or flown now are intended to be flown by a pilot on board, at least for the first several years of commercial operation. These sensors will detect other aircraft, birds, buildings, and thick clouds. Our Texas-based group is focusing on three of these issues: autonomy, communications, and standards.

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MP Materials has an ambitious US rare earth supply chain strategy to fuel EV innovation

Charged EVs

Permanent magnet motors are dominant in the EV industry, due to their superior efficiency. What’s more, the company is developing a facility in Fort Worth, Texas where it plans to manufacture alloys and magnets from Mountain Pass materials. The majority of EV traction motors use rare earth magnets. And it has customers.

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MP Materials has an ambitious US rare earth supply chain strategy to fuel EV innovation – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Permanent magnet motors are dominant in the EV industry, due to their superior efficiency. What’s more, the company is developing a facility in Fort Worth, Texas where it plans to manufacture alloys and magnets from Mountain Pass materials. Approximately 90% of electrified vehicle traction motors use rare earth magnets.