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TechCrunch Mobility: The state of EV sales and Rivian secures the next $1B from VW

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! This week I’m publishing an abbreviated version of the newsletter because of the 4th of July holiday. If you’re driving, flying, or taking the train for the […]

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Slate Auto drops “under $20,000” pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit

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Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has stopped promoting that its upcoming pickup truck will start “under $20,000” following passage of President Trump’s tax cut bill. The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Trump on July 4, will cause the federal EV tax credit to end in September — a $7,500

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Lucid sales inch forward as EV maker pushes to ramp Gravity production

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Lucid delivered 3,309 vehicles in the second quarter, a 6% increase in sales from the previous period and a new sales record for the EV maker. Lucid also reported it produced 3,863 vehicles in the second quarter, nearly 1,000 more than it made in the previous period. Lucid produced 2,212 vehicles in the first quarter

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Tesla faces second straight year of falling sales after another bad quarter

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Tesla delivered 384,122 vehicles in the second quarter of this year, wrapping up another weak quarter for the company as it struggles to bring the pace of sales back up to 2023 levels. That represents a 13.5% drop from the number of cars Tesla delivered in the second quarter of 2022, and it means Tesla

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Rivian receives the next $1B from Volkswagen as sales struggles continue

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Rivian has hit a milestone in its agreement with German automotive giant Volkswagen that will bring $1 billion into the EV startup’s coffers in the form of a share sale. Rivian also announced Wednesday that it delivered 10,661 vehicles in the second quarter. That represents a 23% drop in sales from the second quarter of

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Qantas hack results in theft of 6 million passengers’ personal data

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Australian airline giant Qantas said on Wednesday it experienced a data breach that compromised the personal information of at least six million passengers. The airline said a cybercriminal targeted one of its call centers on June 30, and stole customer data from its systems, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and frequent

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Tesla sends driverless Model Y from factory to customer to promote its robotaxi tech

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Just a few days after launching a limited robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, Tesla pulled off an additional stunt meant to show off the progress of its self-driving car software. The company let a Model Y SUV drive roughly 15 miles from Tesla’s factory to the apartment complex where the car’s new owner lives, completing

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FBI, cybersecurity firms say a prolific hacking crew is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector

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The FBI and cybersecurity firms are warning that the prolific hacking group known as Scattered Spider is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector. In a brief statement on Friday shared with TechCrunch, the FBI said it had “recently observed” cyberattacks resembling Scattered Spider to include the airline sector. Executives from Google’s cybersecurity unit Mandiant

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