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- NASA is testing electric air taxis with Joby Aviation
- VanMoof raises $128M to become ‘most funded e-bike company in the world’
- MotorTrend shows off Rivian’s electric adventure truck in detail
| NASA is testing electric air taxis with Joby Aviation Posted: 01 Sep 2021 07:39 AM PDT  NASA kicked off test flights of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft — colloquially referred to as "flying cars" — with Joby Aviation, the Northern California company that recently went public. The test flights are part of a national campaign by NASA to observe these experimental aircraft in action and determine whether they are safe for passengers. Joby, which was founded in 2009, is the first eVTOL company to participate in NASA's Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign. The test flights commenced Monday, August 30th, at the company's airfield in Big Sur, California, and will run through September 10th, the agency said. But NASA won't just be a passive observer as Joby's six-rotor aircraft whiz through the...  |
| VanMoof raises $128M to become ‘most funded e-bike company in the world’ Posted: 01 Sep 2021 03:20 AM PDT  VanMoof just raised another $128 million in funding, after announcing a $40 million investment round in September 2020. That brings Amsterdam-based VanMoof's total haul to $182 million raised in the last two years, excluding crowdfunding rounds in 2018 and 2019, making it "the most funded e-bike company in the world," according to VanMoof. The company claims to have almost 200,000 bikes on the road currently, with the goal of getting 10 million people on VanMoof e-bikes in the next five years. Such aggressive expansion goals require significant capital. VanMoof's new funding round has been earmarked to expand production and to "reinvent the way in which hardware and software components are...  |
| MotorTrend shows off Rivian’s electric adventure truck in detail Posted: 31 Aug 2021 01:37 PM PDT  Rivian's R1T electric pickup truck is finally set to ship next month after a series of delays — roughly three years after it debuted at the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show. Ahead of the launch, though, MotorTrend got to spend a handful of days with the all-electric adventure truck, and the team there came away impressed by its performance. What's more, they offer one of the best looks at the R1T's interior, which borrows as much from Tesla as it does from other high-end off-road-focused vehicles. None of this is exactly surprising — Rivian has actually been quite open about the development of the R1T since its debut, regularly posting its own articles, photos, and videos along the way — but the truck features two large, crisp displays on the...  |
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