Tag: auto

Uber and Yandex Spin Out Russian self-driving car subsidiary into its own entity

Post author By Steve
Post date September 7, 2020

Uber and Yandex will be spinning off their self-driving car subsidiary into its own entity – MLU BV.

MLU BV will have $150 million in new capital from Yandex, including $100 million in equity and $50 million as a convertible loan.

In connection with the deal, Yandex will hold 61.7% of MLU and Uber will own 33.5%. Bloomberg reported in June that Yandex had been looking to buy all of Uber’s initial 38% stake as an alternative to taking the taxi business public. Uber merged its Russian operations with Moscow-based Yandex in 2017.

Tags auto, cars, deal, food delivery, mlu bv, russia, search, self driving, self driving cars, uber, yandex

Business

Reserve Your Cybertruck Now Live in China on Tesla Website

Post author By Steve
Post date July 4, 2020

Tesla Cybertruck orders in China.

Tesla is now officially taking Cybertruck orders in China. You can head to the Tesla website to reserve your Cybertruck.

The Cybertruck has such a unique design I’m sure there will be a lot of upper class Chinese who would love to be driving around in such a car. Really makes a statement.

Tags auto, auto industry, automotive, buy, china, cybertruck, order, reservation, tesla

Business Tech

In what ways is Google Waymo a threat to Tesla and its Self Driving Technology?

Post author By Steve
Post date June 7, 2020

Waymo at present has a private valuation that is twice as high as Tesla.

How can this be?

Margins! Tesla is focused on the full production of the car where Waymo is focused purely on the underlying technology with self driving cars. Thus, Waymo will have a Gross Margin that is extremely high in comparison to Tesla.

Eric Schmidt talked about this a lot. How Google and its products always wanted to be focused on providing the technology sub stack instead of the full product as it keeps margins at a high level and thus maximising value.

Tags auto, auto industry, car, driving, googl, google, gross margin, self driving, tech, technology, tesla, TSLA, waymo

Business

Tesla is NOT a Hypergrowth Company? Im NOT sure I agree

Post author By Steve
Post date April 4, 2020

Tesla is a very interesting beast! It looks and feels like a car company, but really it’s not!

Here is a link to an interesting article about Tesla not being a hypergrowth company.

Read the full article here.

Tags auto, auto industry, business, capital, car industry, company, growth, tech, technology, tesla