TechCrunch Mobility: Inside Waymo’s deal with SFO, Elon’s moment of truth, and BYD’s breakthrough

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And emo It reached an agreement with the San Francisco Airport Committee – and therefore the city – to use its vehicles to draw a map of the airport roads. This news has received wide coverage due to the possibility of the city to eventually give permission from Waymo to expand the Robotaxi service to the airport. Currently, this maps only cover the vehicles will be driving manually.

Some small birds shared the terms of the agreement with us, which include two important points. One of these sources described “concessions.” These conditions are likely to appear in future agreements.

Waymo agreed to share data after each maps drawing session for each vehicle, according to the agreement that Techcrunch. The “data interface agreement” requires its cars when it enters and gets out of the airport and saves time, the geographical location, identification of identity, the type of treatment, a unique driver’s unique identifier, and the car license number, according to the agreement.

The agreement also prohibits the use of Waymo from the use of independent vehicles to transport commercial goods. Waymo certainly has no self -driving truck program, but a language like this is important for groups like Teamsters.

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Deals!

Only a few deals this week …

CorichellBattery Mateials, $ 24 million in a tour of the A2 series led by FerroGlobe, which is also a Coreshell’s Silicon supplier. Asymmetry Ventures, Estrada Ventures, Foothill Ventures, Helios Climate Ventures, Lane Venture, Translatt Investment, Trousdale Ventures and Zeon Ventures.

InraidThe Financial Times reported that the Swedish operating start company without a driver, is holding talks about the submission of the public subscription that can estimate the company at more than 5 billion dollars, according to the Financial Times.

EvraEmerging for the French subscription EV, collected two million euros from Groupe Magelim, Newfund Naeh Innopy, MCAPITAL, Astoryavc, and Business Angel Eric Ired.

LitaAfrican logistical software provider as a service, $ 5 million of seed financing led by European VC europenvest. The Google Investment Fund in Africa also participated, a climate technology fund that focuses on Africa.

PulsesAn emerging battery technology company, secured 6.1 million euros on a venture and PLANET seed. The climate club also joined.

SeadronixSouth Korea Self -government Self -Government Company raised $ 11.3 million in a series of financing B, which included new LB Investment, KB Investment, and Korea Development Bank. The Fund included the current supporters, Wonk Investment Partners and LightHouse Investment.

Promise readings and other tales

Independent vehicles

Have you ever wondered what inspired Nafidia To go “All in” on self -driving cars? Nafidia CEO Gensen Huang Influent in the history lesson through the keyword GTC. Talk about the GTC conference at NVIDIA, there was a set of AV -related ads. Check this round, which covers the deals with GATIK, GM, Torc and more.

Zoo A voluntary recall of 258 vehicles has been released due to problems related to an independent driving system, which may cause unexpected hard braking.

Electric cars, shipping and batteries

Byd A new EV charging technology has announced, if there are fruits, the competition will explode and be as the fastest car that nourishes a gas car.

Honda ACURA will enable the ACURA brand access to the Tesla Supercharger network in June. Dig in: We have a useful tour for all brands that have access.

Timing and Rural Ev charging experience. The two companies face the lowest number of problems, according to a survey of consumer reports. Worse: Shell Recharge, Evo, and flash.

Meanwhile, do not do Tesla well with CYBERTRUCK Although it continues to excel other EV trucks. The auto industry has issued a summons to 46,000 operations that have been sold so far due to an external steel trim on the front glass side that could exfoliate.

Finally, and is still on the Tesla front, an analyst Dan Eve At Wedbush Securities, he defended Elon Musk in a note published on Thursday to reduce his role in working with the Ministry of Governmental efficiency. He said that Musk faces the “moment of truth” in his company EV because of the “crisis” that he created by spending a lot of time in the Trump administration.

The future of the trip

Judy flight A partnership with Virgin Atlantic was held to launch electric taxis in the United Kingdom, representing the seventh country that contemplates the emerging in marketing one day. Rememberment: We informed for the first time about this possible partnership in the “Little Bird” section last year.

Car technology

Well, I assume this is a technical story inside the car. I am talking about the expanded cooperation between General Motors and NafidiaIt was announced at the GTC conference. TL; DR: GM will work with NVIDIA to build AI systems with many TECH GIANT products. The idea is to bring artificial intelligence to the world of physical bridges of factories, robots and cars. More details here.

Timing He received a statement from the California Public Utilities Committee, the news that some have abandoned or was not accurately reported. Here is what Tesla can not do with this transportation charter permit.