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Tesla Is Building a New Battery Factory in California

A California mayor said Tesla Inc. broke ground in his city on what it calls a new 鈥淢egafactory,鈥 praising the planned facility in a Facebook post that was deleted and is now visible again.

September 23, 2021

Nuro to Build Autonomous EV Factory in Nevada

Nuro Inc., which has unmanned delivery pods scurrying around Southwestern streets, said that it will build a $40 million facility to assemble and test a new generation of autonomous vehicles in Nevada.

August 26, 2021

UPS Starts Drone Delivery of COVID Vaccines

UPS Inc. started delivering coronavirus vaccines with the use of drones as part of a new initiative announced Aug. 24.

August 24, 2021

XPO Posts Q2 Profit on Record Revenue

Lifted by the highest revenue of any quarter in its history, XPO Logistics Inc. swung its second-quarter bottom line to a profit from a loss in the year-ago period.

July 29, 2021

Robotics Firm AutoStore Plans IPO at $10 Billion Value

AutoStore is weighing an initial public offering that could value the Norwegian warehouse robotics company at more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

June 29, 2021

Alphabet Jumps Into Drone Air-Traffic Control With Flight App

Alphabet Inc.鈥檚 drone-delivery venture, Wing, is releasing free software for U.S. drone users to get permission to fly near sensitive areas such as airports.

June 29, 2021

FedEx to Test Nuro Autonomous Delivery Vehicles

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. 鈥 FedEx Corp. announced June 15 that it has partnered with Nuro, one of the nation鈥檚 leading autonomous vehicle companies, to test the use of driverless vehicles for multistop and appointment-based deliveries in Houston.

June 18, 2021

Electric Plane Pioneer Pivots to Cargo Drones

The man behind the only electric plane cleared to fly quickly discovered the challenges of converting world-leading technology into profits in a hotly contested, futuristic segment of aviation.

June 17, 2021

Drone Demo Offers a Taste of the Future of Delivery

A Deuce Drone flew some smoothies to waiting consumers June 1 in Mobile, Ala., but the real payload might have been a peek at the legislative support that drone delivery startups need in order to get off the ground.

June 2, 2021

Likely Growth in Drone Deliveries Prompts NTSB to Expand Its Purview

The expected increase in commercial drone operations such as delivery flights is prompting accident investigators to expand the types of aviation crashes they plan to review.

May 20, 2021