mobility-tech
LAND Energy Launches an EV for Energy Independence
Today, we are excited to introduce LAND Energy, an electrification and mobility startup based in Cleveland that is focused on combining…
Canada will get a 1000 kph vacuum tube train
Photo rendering courtesy TransPod Canada could be getting a 1,000 kph vacuum tube train. The new proposal for a FluxJet was unveiled…
Report: Electric Car Sales Skyrocket
According to a new report out from IDTechEx, electric car sales have hit new records as governments double down on support for the…
Ford Cuts Jobs To Fund EV Investment
A Ford F150 Lightning charging. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Co. In a cost-cutting move to assure the jump to an EV future, Ford Motor Co. is…
North American EV Charging Company FLO Expands to Michigan
North American EV charging company FLO has just announced plans to open its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Michigan in 2022. This is…
Septentrio Partners with MicroPilot for Secure High-Accuracy Drone GPS
Septentrio, an industry leader in high-precision GNSS positioning solutions, has just announced a collaboration with MicroPilot, a creator…
CarBeast creates AI tool to predict car repair costs
CarBeast is a Michigan and California-based startup who created an AI tool with a different application: it helps you make informed…
GM Secures Raw Materials & Partnerships To Produce Future EVs
The 2024 Chevy Silverado EV. GM and PG&E have been exploring the use of EVs as backup power generators. A number of materials shortages have…
LG Energy Solution To Invest $1.7 Billion in EV Battery Production in Michigan
LG Energy Solution announced this week that they will invest $1.7 billion and create 1,200 jobs at the company's current location in Holland…
May Mobility Raises $83 Million in Series C Supported by Toyota, BMW
May Mobility, one of Ann Arbor's top mobility startups that created a self-driving shuttle, just closed an $83 million Series C round of…
Midwest High Growth Tech Startups To Watch 2022: Detroit
Detroit is now chock full of incubators, startups, VCs hunting for dealflow in the Midwest, bootcamps, and career fairs. Photo credit the…
Ann Arbor's 4th Mobility Summit Offers Behind the Scenes Look at How Mobility Investment Is Changing
At Ann Arbor's 4th annual Mobility Summit, the focus was on investment in the mobility space. PitchBook's Asad Hussein reported "a flurry of…
Ann Arbor Launches A2Go Driverless Shuttle
Want a chance to check out driverless shuttles? If you're in Ann Arbor, you can check out the new A2Go shuttle during a2tech360's A2 Zero…
Rivian Registers for IPO Hoping for $80 Billion Valuation
Rivian, the Michigan-based EV pickup startup, has just filed for an IPO hoping for a roughly $80 billion valuation. Rivian said in a…
Project Synergy Automates Data Tracking and Collab for Automotive Prototype Builds
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
Throdle Creates First Global Automotive Social Network
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
The Newest Midwest Mobility Startups To Watch: LiveRoad Analytics
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
The Newest Midwest Mobility Startups To Watch: Interpl.ai
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
The Newest Midwest Mobility Startups To Watch: P3 Mobility
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
Pitch Your Michigan Mobility Startup @ SXSW, Venture Summit, TC Sessions, & TechStars
Have a new startup in mobility, sustainable energy, or tech that you would like to pitch? Ann Arbor SPARK has just announced a number of…
Behind The Scenes Look at Massive Consolidation in the Auto Industry's Suppliers with 123Go's Dominic Rea
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
GM Aims For All-Electric Vehicles and Zero Emissions by 2035, Rivian Raises $2.65 Billion
Combining a shift to electric vehicles over the next decades and paying to offset emissions, General Motors announced yesterday a plan to…
SE Michigan Cities Develop a New Highway In the Sky
Recent announcements of Michigan opening a first in the nation autonomous highway corridor between Ann Arbor and Detroit have spurred…
This Is Not a Post About Flying Taxis... Yet
Cars are gonna fly any day now, or so the story goes according to the non-transportation media. It's a nice thought, and it will be here…
Last-Mile EVs Shift The Business Models of Mobility
Mobility startups have been changing lately, and not just in the products they're producing--from pedestrian safety apps to self-driving…
TechTalk 2020: Lessons From Entrepreneurship In Changing Times
Susan Wagner of KLA Corporation spoke up front at this year's TechTalk out of Ann Arbor on the importance of diversity and inclusion…
The Ann Arbor Mobility Summit: Autonomous, Electrification, & Mobility as a Service Are Transforming The Future of Transport
Panel: Changing Face of Automotive in the New Normal Carla Bailo, Center for Automotive Research (Moderator) • Bill Frykman, Ford Mobility…
Ann Arbor's a2tech360 Hosts 16 Different Online Tech Events This Week
It's finally here: Ann Arbor's annual tech week, a2tech360, starts today and runs all next week with 16 online tech events highlighting the…
Over The Air Vehicle Software Updates Are Reshaping An Industry
Passenger cars and trucks have become rolling software updates, and while that has sped up product development cycles, it has created a big…
Software Company UrsaLeo's Ann Arbor Expansion Supports Manufacturers with Digital Twinning Tech
What Is Digital Twinning Tech for Advanced Manufacturing? Enterprise software company UrsaLeo recently announced an expansion into the…
Innovation Beyond Borders with TusStar's International Startup Incubators
TusStar is an affiliated network of tech startup incubators and early stage venture accelerators located in over 130 cities around the world…
How Tech Startups Are Succeeding During COVID-19
Research labs have been shut down. Small businesses are searching for funding. But it's not all bad news in the emerging tech hubs of the…
Inside an Indiana Manufacturer's Rush To Produce PPE Components For Michigan Hospitals
Manufacturers across the Midwest are rushing at historic speeds to create protective gear, ventilator components, and other hospital gear…
May Mobility & The Autonomous Transportation Revolution
The May Mobility shuttle parked in front of the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. "It's a very natural feeling, it doesn't feel as if a robot…
Ann Arbor-Based FordLabs Is Ford's Ongoing Push To Make Automotive Agile
Abbey Knick, FordLabs Operations & Communications Manager, stands with Office Director John Handy in the open workspace of FordLabs in Ann…
MAXAR Builds Next-Generation Technology For Space Infrastructure To Earth Intelligence To Self-Driving Cars
Little known fact: Ypsilanti, Michigan, has been home to a satellite and remote sensing company now called MAXAR since 1947. Focused on…
Voxel51 Chosen As AI Top Pick To Present at Tech Disrupt 2019
The Voxel51 team, co-founder Jason Corso center. Co-founder and CTO Brian Moore fourth from left in rear. Ann Arbor's Voxel51, an AI startup…
Ann Arbor Mobility Summit 2019
Kira Barton of S3D Precision Dispensing talks about how the company's new technology in printing flexible circuits is revolutionizing in…
The Future of Mobility Tech: TU-Automotive Software Conference in Detroit
Septentrio of Belgium creates high-accuracy GPS for vehicle positioning. The Septentrio tech comes from industrial applications such as…
Nostrum Energy Revolutionizes Engine Efficiency in Europe & the Aftermarket
With sixteen employees currently, some pictured here at their Spark offices, Nostrum Energy is a diverse workforce that speaks 20 languages…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Gerry Roston
Gerry Roston, CEO of Civionics and mentor at TechTown Detroit. Courtesy photo. Even undergrad students at the University of Michigan now…