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

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Starting this week, Aurora Driver-powered trucks are hauling loads between Fort Worth and El Paso on behalf of Werner. Introducing an autonomous route between Fort Worth and El Paso allows Werner to move freight seamlessly and reliably on a subset of one of its most voluminous lanes.

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Tesla Semi Megacharger route still plausible despite Biden admin rejection: report

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The EV maker was reportedly planning to contribute about $24 million of its own funds for the planned Semi chargers, which would cover a distance of about 1,800 miles, from Fremont, California to Laredo, Texas. With a public Megacharger network in place, the Tesla Semi could transport goods over distances that far exceed its 500-mile range.

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Fort Worth approves $68.9M incentive package for Linear Labs for electric motor manufacturing

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The City of Fort Worth, Texas has approved a $68.9-million The research and production center will create electric motors for industries as diverse as electric vehicles (EVs), robotics, HVAC, and last-mile micromobility, in addition to various industrial applications. —Brad Hunstable, Co-Founder and CEO of Linear Labs.

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VinFast Still Kicking and Planning to Show Vehicles at CES

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James, New York), Principle VinFast Grapevine (Grapevine, Texas), Hiley VinFast of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, Texas), and VinFast Wichita (Wichita, Kansas). From VinFast: The first group of VinFast dealers consist of Leith VinFast (Raleigh, North Carolina), Smith Haven VinFast (St.

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Uber expands autonomous driving service in Texas

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As outlined in the press release from Aurora Innovation, the company is expanding through a new 600-mile delivery route between Fort Worth and El Paso. According to Reuters , Uber has expanded its autonomous freight delivery service in Texas. On the route, Uber will employ the modified Peterbilt 579M produced by Aurora.

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App-based mobile gas station Booster Fuels raises $20M in Series B

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While autonomous and electric vehicles are certainly the future, last year more than 99% of all new autos sold in the US ran on conventional fuels, a trend we don't see subsiding in the foreseeable future. Fuel consumption reached record highs in 2016.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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We carried out our first flight demonstration on 11 October 2022, when we flew a Bell 407GXi helicopter (supplied by consortium member Bell Textron) as a stand-in for a future electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle, or eVTOL. As the helicopter was preparing to take off from Fort Worth for the first flight, at around 2 p.m.

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