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Waymo Perhaps the largest operator in commercial Robotaxi – offering 250,000 rides paid per week – but it is barely fluid.
The last seven days in the world of Waymo illustrates how dynamic Robotaxis’ activities can be dynamic. Business National service at the national level On June 13, before the demonstrations planned “No Kings” against President Donald Trump and his policies.
A few days later, Waymo announced that he was Expand its Robotaxi service area By 80 square miles in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay region and Silicon Valley.
And now Waymo looks at the largest city in the United States: new York. A note on NYC: it will be a marathon for Waymo. The company requests a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in the city, but even if it is approved, this will not mean driverless tests. A truly driver -free vehicle (not human behind the wheel) will require a change of state law. Expect the lobbying activity to increase in the state.
Let’s move on to the rest of the news.
A little bird
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Offers!
Applied intuition Continue to attract investors, and it has breathtaking valuation to show it.
The startup Buzzy, which manufactures software that helps companies and government agencies to develop autonomous vehicle solutions such as simulation software and data management, closed a Series of $ 600 million and tender offer. This tour, co-directed by funds managed by Blackrock and Kleiner Perkins, pushed its valuation to $ 15 billion. Yes, $ 15 billion.
Other investors included Qatar Investment Authority, Abu Dhabi Investment Council, Graycroft, etc. The existing investors General Catalyst, Lux, Elad Gil and the obligation of the growth fund of Mary Meeker also participated.
Reminder: the Tour comes just one year after completing an E series of $ 250 million, which put the business to an assessment of $ 6 billion.
Other offers deserve to be noted …
Aviation archer lifted one An additional $ 850 million Thanks to a direct offer recorded of 85 million shares at $ 10 per share. The company noted in its advertisement that this had followed the executive decree of President Trump to implement an EVTOL integration pilot program in the United States.
Senra andstemsA startup based south of California developing wire harness for aerospace, lifted $ 25 million In a round co-directed by Dylan Field, the co-founder and CEO of the Figma design software company; Vc firm civ; General catalyst; Founders of the founders of Peter Thiel; Sequoia Capital; 8VC of Joe Lonsdale; And Andreessen Horowitz.
Micromomability
This newsletter had a section dedicated to micromobility, a reflection of its popularity at the time. Micromobility has gone through a period of consolidation and tightening of capital, which forced the industry to develop. But that has not disappeared, and that is why I bring it back this week (and sometimes in the future).
Journalist Rebecca Bellan organized a round table with Can the CEO Fredrik Hjelm,, Bird Co-PDG Michael WashinushiAnd Dr PDG Henri Moissinac At the micromobility Europe event in Brussels. Here are some of his panel ideas and the broader event:
- The shared micromobility has gone from a public nuisance to a viable form of public transport. Cities like Paris are now putting four -year contracts, which will help operators establish roots.
- Europe is easier than American Washinushi only thinks of North America is 18 to 24 months behind Europe to accept public transport micromobility.
- The companies that have survived in recent years are better and stronger and are now working on profitability and deepening of the growth of the main markets. Bird, for example, believes that it is 12 to 18 months of the positivity of available cash flows.
- The operators do it in several ways. Here, for example, is to type LLMS to transform user comments into real and usable information. VIE also said that he would be interested in acquiring companies, such as Bolt’s micromobility activities, to deepen his foot.
- All companies said they planned to add more electric bikes to the mixture. Washinushi has also noted that Bird deprives the use of data to deploy vehicles in the right place and at the right time.
- The CEOs also said they wanted to see more cities in terms of applying scooter ceilings, the cavalry behavior police and the creation of dedicated infrastructure such as protected cycle paths.
Other news from micromobility …
Honda launched a last -kilometer electric delivery vehicle called the Fastport Equad.
The Equad is available in two sizes built on the same basic, small and large platform. Both are smaller than the smallest mini cooper but can transport between 320 and 650 pounds. They have pedals and their top speed is limited to 12 MPH (20 km / h), the two requirements to keep them legal.
Dull is back and launched its first electric bike since bankruptcy. Journalist Rebecca Bellan is in what is the same and What has changed in Vanmoof.
Bellan also provided a List of startups Defend from the micromobility scene at the start of the European stage.
Notable readings and other songs
Autonomous vehicles
Zamx opened his first Full production installationwhere he plans one day to build 10,000 robotaxis per year.
Electric vehicles, batteries and charges
Tesla has established a partnership with Electrify Expo has Launch the full EV tests. This is an interesting decision by Tesla, which has historically used other methods in addition to third -party events such as car shows or exhibitions to attract new customers. He could also make an electrification of expo a target of demonstrators who are behind the Tesla Takedown movement.
Self -sharing and carpooling
Zoom ZomomThe Indian automotive sharing market, said a Hacker acceded to personal data At least 8.4 million customers, including their names, phone numbers and cars recording numbers. The company learned of the incident after some of its employees received external communications from a threat player who said they had access to the company’s data.
Flight future
THE Paris air show Included many news in the constantly evolving category that I call “Future of Flight”. Too much to cover everything here, but there have been a few protruding facts: an announcement of American secretary Dot Sean Duffy that the Federal Aviation Administration and four other regulators collaborate on a Advanced air mobility (AAM); Aviation archer presented her Midnight plane and hosted delegations from more than 20 countries; And Beta technologies’ Alia has become the First electric plane To fly to the living room.
