Hi friends and new readers, welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B.
In last week’s newsletter, I described some of the changes coming to TechCrunch’s transportation coverage, including “market maps.” These articles, which will always run in Extra Crunch, focus on a particular slice of the transportation industry, along with other mobility-related analysis.
The first of these took a deep dive into the solid state battery industry. As Mark Harris reported: “For the last decade, developers of solid state battery systems have promised products that are vastly safer, lighter and more powerful. Those promises largely evaporated into the ether leaving behind a vapor stream of disappointing products, failed startups and retreating release dates.”
The Chevy Bolt EV has reached the 100,000 sales milestone after just over four years on the market. Its top markets are the U.S., Canada and South Korea.
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If you’ve been shopping for a new car this year, you know that virtually all auto shows have been cancelled, yet another victim of the pandemic. The lack of any annual exposition of the latest and greatest in automotive hardware brings with it a spate of questions, not the least of which is whether they will come back, and where one gets the information needed to go about buying a car.
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This Corvette C7.R chassis was the third manufactured by Pratt & Miller after the race car’s debut at the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The team raced the car for two full seasons in the IMSA GTLM class and is the same chassis that Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen and Ryan Briscoe took victory in at the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring in 2015. This is also the car that won its class at Long Beach, Laguna Seca, Watkins Glen and Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in 2014 and was brought over to France for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in both 2014 and 2015.