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San Francisco startup Ample is bringing its modular electric vehicle battery swapping technology to Mitsubishi Fuso’s electric trucks this winter, the company said Tuesday. This marks the first time Ample’s technology is being used for large vehicles. The company’s technology is currently being used on a small scale for ride-hail vehicles in San Francisco and…

Agnes Svensson Contributor Agnes Svensson is the chief impact officer at Norrsken VC, Europe’s leading early-stage impact investor. She has more than 12 years’ experience driving sustainability, diversity, and inclusion initiatives in the private sector (most notably the fintech decacorn Klarna) and at nonprofit organizations. The world is witnessing an exciting and necessary surge in…

Stock futures extend rally, but global stocks sputter; Week Ahead: Wall Street faces Fed, tech earnings and key data tests; Chevron moves higher after Q2 earnings preannouncement; Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as ‘X’, removes bird logo and ‘Barbenheimer’ delivers ‘phenomenal’ weekend for American movie theaters…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinInvincible Amazon While everything is grinding to a halt because of the Writers and Actors Strikes, a few shows that are already finished are squeezing out over the course of the next few months. And one of them, Invincible season 2, we’ve been waiting forever for. Amazon has just…

Before we dive into this week’s biggest news within the robotics space, there’s an announcement of our own to highlight. We’ll be hosting a number of robotics industry experts at our very first Hardware Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. The stage kicks off on day three of Disrupt on September 21, and features speakers from…

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular roundup of the past week in tech. Too busy to check the headlines this week? Don’t sweat it. That’s why WiR exists — we’ll get you caught up to speed. This edition of WiR features pieces about a fake AI-generated “South Park” episode; the surging…

Car owners are not impressed with a lot of the tech stuff in their vehicles, a new study finds…

In a public letter addressed to Ford boss Jim Farley, House Republicans Mike Gallagher and Jason Smith announced that two congressional committees are investigating the automaker’s licensing deal with Chinese battery maker CATL. The probe centers on Ford’s efforts to put CATL’s battery cell technology to use at an upcoming, $3.5 billion battery cell plant…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Elon Musk’s fortune took a major hit Thursday after the share price of his electric vehicle titan Tesla suffered its biggest slide in three months, as the world’s richest person navigates yet another massive swing for Tesla. Tesla’s stock slump nearly knocked Elon Musk off his pedestal as…

Swarm, the Internet-of-Things connectivity provider that was acquired by SpaceX, will no longer be selling new devices, according to an email sent to customers earlier this month. The news appears to be directly related to SpaceX’s forthcoming expansion into the satellite-to-cell market, with Swarm telling customers that it plans to offer a version of its…