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Micromobility

Taiwan-based Gogoro, known for its battery swapping-network, has officially gone public! / TechCrunch

Source: TechCrunch

Good news, Trek Bicycle fans, you can now recycle your e-bike's batteries at the Trek store where you got them! / Trek

What's your thought on adding resistance to e-scooters, so riders get physical activity while they move? / ZagDaily

Yet another e-bike has been recalled. This time, the Fiido X has been dropped from Fiido's lineup due to a fault that could result in the folding bike breaking in two / The Verge

Lime is helping people "break up" with their cars. Three lucky riders will be gifted $3500 in rides if they take the company's pledge and adopt a car-free lifestyle / Lime

Product Launches & Updates

Fans of Back to the Future will be happy to learn DeLorean Motor Company has announced a reveal date and released the first look at its electric vehicle / PRNewswire

Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised to roll out his company’s “full self-driving” Beta software to all customers in North America within the year / TechCrunch

Take a look at the OKAI Stride, Okai’s first consumer-oriented massive electric bike / Electrek

A Nissan EV with a solid-state battery is expected to be launched by 2028 / The Verge

The Lincoln Motor Company has introduced their latest concept vehicle, the Lincoln Electric Concept SUV / AutoBlog

This Dutch bike is made up of 90 percent European components / Newatlas

Ridehailing, Carsharing, & Delivery

Bolt, UK's second-largest ride-sharing app, launches its service ahead of Easter weekend, putting Uber in competition / HampshireLive

Investment & Deals

Another electric automaker is heading for the public market / TechCrunch

With a Series B funding round of $35 million, Bcomp intends to expand its global and domestic production capacities / Tech.eu

Porsche announced a $75M investment in the industrial production of eFuels, a synthetic low-carbon complement to its plans to electrify 80% of its lineup / TechCrunch 

Over the next five years, Polestar will sell up to 65,000 electric cars to Hertz. / CNN Business

Trucking fintech startup, SmartHop, raised $30M in a Series B round / TechCrunch

Bosch announced the acquisition of Five.ai, an autonomous driving startup that initially had plans to build and operate its fleet but shifted to B2B technology development / TechCrunch

Cities & Policy

Self-driving trucks are being tested by Aurora and Werner on a 600-mile stretch of highway in Texas. / CNBC

Lime, Spin, and Superpedestrian have been granted permits for two years and will begin operating 3,000 electric scooters throughout Chicago in May / SmartCities

Source: Lime

Mystery on the streets of Hollywood: Who’s painting LA’s untouched crosswalks? / NPR

This American academic says that cycling networks should be as dense as road networks in every city / Forbes

New Products, Features, and Data Points

In a "breakthrough" for its self-driving system, Toyota's Woven Planet can use low-cost cameras to collect data. This could help it bring costs down and scale up the technology / Automotive News

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