Andrew J. Hawkins
Sony’s CES press conference is about to start.
On deck: updates about how to pre-order Afeela, the electric vehicle Sony is making with Honda.
Andrew J. Hawkins
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Toyota invests in Japanese space company.
During his CES press conference today, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda said the company was “exploring rockets.” Indeed, Toyota had just announced that it had invested an undisclosed sum in Interstellar Technologies, a private Japanese spaceflight company, with the aim to leverage Toyota’s manufacturing prowess to mass produce rockets.
At the end of the event, Toyoda cracked that “the future of mobility shouldn’t be limited to just Earth, or just one car company” — a possible dig at Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s ownership of SpaceX.
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Andrew J. Hawkins
Toyota’s CES press conference is about to start.
The company is expected to update its progress on Woven City, its “living laboratory” in Japan for future mobility projects. Tune in here.
Andrew J. Hawkins
NYC is now the first city in the US with congestion pricing.
The new tolling scheme that charges people $9 to drive below 60th Street in Manhattan went live at 12:00:01AM on Sunday. New York joins London, Singapore, Milan, and other global cities to force drivers to shoulder some of the burden in paying for good public transportation. I wrote about how congestion pricing can save cities from robot-powered gridlock back in 2019 — check it out.
