Grin, an electric scooter startup backed by Y Combinator, has raised a $45.7 million Series A to operate shared, electric scooters in Latin America. Grin, which is based in Mexico City, had previously raised funding from Sinai Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, 500 Startups, Monashees, Base10 Partners and others. Currently, Grin only operates in Mexico City, but ... The vision starts with helping humans stay safe at sea, but could put fully robo-boats into action as ferries in just a few years. ... Uber is facing calls for a boycott of its app in the Persian Gulf, a region that has poured billions of dollars of investment into the company’s ride-hailing business in recent years: Directly via Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and indirectly because the Saudis are major investors in Softbank’s Vision Fund vehicle, which is another big Uber ...
It might not be flying taxis, but self-driving taxis on the road started test runs in Dubai on Sunday.
At the annual consumer electronics trade show Gitex, Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority, or RTA, showed off its autonomous taxi service.
Launch... ... We look at the latest happenings in the auto-world, and look back at WIRED's greatest hits from a quarter century of chronicling the ever-molting world of transportation. ... The time has come. Electric scooter sharing services are returning to the streets of San Francisco — this time with explicit permission from the SF Municipal Transportation Agency. On Monday, we’ll see both Skip and Scoot deploy their respective electric scooters throughout the city. And if you remember what it was like earlier this year, ...
It was eerily quiet.
I was driving a Jaguar — my first time in the driver's seat of any vehicle from the luxury British car maker — and there wasn't much to hear save for the slight swish of the car moving along the road and the wheels tu... ... A judge today denied Lime’s request for a temporary restraining order that would block Skip and Scoot from deploying their electric scooters in San Francisco on Monday. This means San Franciscans will be able to use electric scooter services again first thing next week. Following the SFMTA’s decision to grant Skip and Scoot electric scooter ... What's really scary is that as climate change brings fiercer storms, more places must learn to prepare for disaster. ... Lime is doing the most right now. In light of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency denying Lime a permit to operate electric scooters in the city, Lime is gearing up to request a temporary restraining order. “Lime believes that after selecting two other less experienced electric scooter companies and comparatively weaker applications in a process that ...
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Electric scooter startup Grin raises ~$45 million
Rolls-Royce Wants to Fill the Seas With Self-Sailing Ships
Saudi ally calls for Uber boycott over response to Khashoggi’s vanishing
Dubai launches its self-driving taxi service
This Week in the Future of Cars: Happy Birthday to Us
What to expect from the return of electric scooters in SF
I drove my first all-electric car. It reminded me of my distracting smartphone.
SF judge denies Lime’s request to block electric scooter deployment
Hurricane Michael Hit the Parts of Florida Least Prepared to Flee Its Wrath
Lime wants to block Scoot and Skip from deploying electric scooters in SF next week