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Daily Crunch: Travis Kalanick is leaving Uber’s board

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Uber founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick will officially resign… Continue reading Daily Crunch: Travis Kalanick is leaving Uber’s board

Pendragon sells JLR dealership in California for £31m

Pendragon confirmed today that it had sold its Jaguar Land Rover dealership in Newport Beach, California. The transaction is in line with the group’s strategy of disposing of its US motor businesses. Pendragon is currently seeking to fill the vacant role of CEO, following the departure of Mark Herbert after just three months in the… Continue reading Pendragon sells JLR dealership in California for £31m

SK Innovation To Supply Batteries For Hyundai’s E-GMP BEVs

SK Innovation might turn into an exclusive battery supplier to Hyundai Motor Group’s E-GMP-based BEVs Japanese news agency NNA reports unofficially that Hyundai Motor Group (Hyundai, Kia and Genesis) has selected SK Innovation as an exclusive lithium-ion cell supplier for the first batch of all-electric cars, based on the upcoming Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP). The first… Continue reading SK Innovation To Supply Batteries For Hyundai’s E-GMP BEVs

Mercedes-Benz May Have An Edge With IBM’s New Cobalt-Free Battery

M-B helped develop the new technology, which is cheaper and more energy-dense than current Li-Ion batteries. The IBM Research-Almaden innovation lab released last December 18 it has developed a new battery technology that is not dependent on heavy metals, such as nickel or cobalt. The company is still very secretive of what it involves. Still,… Continue reading Mercedes-Benz May Have An Edge With IBM’s New Cobalt-Free Battery

Nissan’s new No. 3 Seki jumps ship to Nidec

TOKYO — Nissan Motor‘s turnaround efforts suffered a heavy blow as Jun Seki, who assumed one of the automaker’s three new leadership posts just a month ago, will leave the company to join Japanese motor maker Nidec as early as February, Nikkei learned on Tuesday. Seki is seen as a potential candidate to become Nidec’s… Continue reading Nissan’s new No. 3 Seki jumps ship to Nidec

Aurora focuses on simulation tests

The US company Aurora has decided to allow the tests to be carried out more in the simulator. The startup launched this year Aurora fewer test kilometers back than in the previous year. That will also change in DMV report voice that will come out in the coming month. Aurora announced that it would hardly… Continue reading Aurora focuses on simulation tests

Canadian electric vehicles startup opens India office to cater to Indian Industry

Encouraged by the latest Electric Vehicle policy announcements by the government, MakerMax System, a startup dedicated to the advanced lithium battery technologies and Online EV education, has expanded their operations in India with a series of new products and services. One of the product recently launched by the company is a indigenously developed desktop model… Continue reading Canadian electric vehicles startup opens India office to cater to Indian Industry

Barcelona-based Wind wins official e-scooter partnership with Milan city

Wind, one of the world’s leading e-scooter sharing providers, has triumphed in a public tender process to become an approved partner for micro-mobility services in the city of Milan.

Wind Mobility, founded in 2017, aims to make cities a better place by reducing traffic, carbon dioxide emission and noise, with its eco-friendly e-scooters (making it onto our list of clean-tech startups to watch out this year). Its priority for its e-scooters is availability via the app, also offering services to its clients (cities, companies, hotels and universities), such as hourly/daily rents and employee bonus programmes.

In its first expansion into Italy, Wind began researching the potential of the Milan market in February this year, and was among the first providers to apply for the tender. The successful outcome means 750 of Wind’s third-generation e-scooter models will hit the city streets from January 2020.

Wind has honed its expertise as a world leader in the micro-mobility market in more t..