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Automotive Industry: Semiconductor Shortage & EV Tax Incentives & other news

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities. Key Developments U.S. new light-vehicle sales in April predict a In an earnings call last week, Ford warned of a potential volume loss approaching 1.1 million vehicles for the full year’s planned production due to the ongoing global semiconductor shortage. Due to the semiconductor shortage, GM announced additional downtime for five North American plants; Volkswagen’s Mexico unit will stop production for certain vehicles in Puebla this month, and Nissan announced several days of downtime in May for its North American plants.

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Viewpoint: The Race to Build Self-Driving Trucks Has Four Horses and Three Jockeys

Viewpoint: The Race to Build Self-Driving Trucks Has Four Horses and Three Jockeys By Ira Boudway | May 3, 2021 Over the last five years, as it’s become clear that self-driving cars will take longer than expected to arrive on most American streets, some of the biggest players in the industry have turned their attention to long-haul trucking. Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous vehicle unit Waymo, the leader in robo-taxis, launched its trucking division Via in 2017 after a handful of start-ups, including Otto, Starsky Robotics, and TuSimple Holdings Inc., had entered the field. Aurora Innovation Inc., one of Waymo’s most formidable competitors, recently decided to focus its efforts on bringing a trucking product to market before branching into ride-hailing. The logic behind the pivot is twofold: highways are easier to navigate than city streets and cargo is less demanding than human passengers.

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The Station: Lyft sells its self-driving unit, Uber makes a big product push and Revel jumps into ride-hailing – TechCrunch

Hi there, new and returning readers. This is The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages move (today and in the future) from Point A to Point B. We took a week off and now we’re back. Whoop. Let’s catch up on all things transportation. My email inbox is always open. Email me at kirsten.korosec@techcrunch.com to share thoughts, criticisms, opinions or tips. You also can send a direct message to me at Twitter @kirstenkorosec. Micromobbin’ JOCO, a new docked e-bike service in New York City, has launched and is already facing some headwinds. The service started with 300 e-bikes at 300 stations in private parking garages and plans to expand to about 1,000 e-bikes at 100 stations by June. That is, unless the NYC Department of Transportation has anything to say about it.

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The Station: Lyft sells its self-driving unit, Uber makes a big product push and Revel jumps into ride-hailing

The Station: Lyft sells its self-driving unit, Uber makes a big product push and Revel jumps into ride-hailing
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SPAC rumor mill churns over autonomous truck software developer Plus

SPAC rumor mill churns over autonomous truck software developer Plus Startup ‘open to all kinds’ of capital raising but mum on blank-check merger 0 66 3 minutes read A Bloomberg report has autonomous trucking software maker Plus close to a SPAC merger with Hennessy Capital. (Photo: Plus) Self-driving truck software startup Plus is reportedly in talks to merge with the same investor group that brought public electric vehicle startup Canoo Inc. (NASDAQ: GOEV), school bus maker Blue Bird Corp. (NASDAQ: BLBD) and flatbed logistics specialist Daseke Inc. (NASDAQ: DSKE). Rumors of the Cupertino, California-based startup aligning with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) have circulated for months. Bloomberg reported Friday that Plus is in talks with Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. V (NASDAQ: HCIC) in a deal that could be announced as soon as this week.

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