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Lucid Motors is a US electric vehicle manufacturer known for premium luxury sedans and SUVs like the Air and Gravity, competing with Tesla.
BMW's iX4 50 xDrive, the third Neue Klasse EV, starts at $66,200 for up to 428 miles of EPA-estimated range. BMW is selling distance and charging speed, so whether the car makes sense depends on how far a buyer's drivers actually go.
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Bolt aims to put at least 25,000 driverless Lucids on European roads under a non-binding framework with no order and no date, while the only EU-wide approval route for a fully automated car allows 1,500 of a type a year.
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The question of when a robot driver is good enough has been the industry's to answer. NHTSA's new consortium with SAE is meant to produce the competency test that would settle it, with the agency's rulemaking to follow.
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Spark Capital led a $120 million Series A at a $1 billion post-money valuation, putting TAR at $880 million before the cash arrived. The round discloses no contracted megawatts and no other investors.
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Idaho National Laboratory's review is funded by unnamed electric and autonomous vehicle companies, per TechCrunch's sources. Seven firms reported to be considering Hesai and RoboSense parts were unaware of it.
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