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Techstars LA Draws International Companies For 2021 Class

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Techstars LA, the startup accelerator headed up by Matt Kozlov, announced its 2021 class this week, drawing an international group of twelve new companies to its startup accelerator in Culver City. Companies this year in the program come from as far as Canada, India, and Ukraine.

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SpaceX Plans First Commercial Flights Of Starship In 2021

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX is hoping to launch the very first, commercial missions for its Starship spacecraft--designed to deliver passengers to Mars--in 2021, according to the company , and is currently in talks with three companies on those missions. All three of those customers would use the new platform to send satellites into orbit.

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Fisker Teases Design Of New Car, In Deal With Foxconn

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The design is going to be freaking amazing! Fisker #Love #EVs #ESG #freaking #innovation pic.twitter.com/TGjCCx8Utz— Henrik Fisker (@henrikfisker) May 13, 2021. Details on the new vehicle so far are light, but Fisker said that Foxconn is jointly investing in the vehicle, and will share the proceeds from sales. Signed and sealed!

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Canoo Aims At Subscription EVs, Hopes To Launch In 2021

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A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Canoo , says it is hoping to launch a brand new, electric vehicle (EV) subscription service, which uses vehicles designed and built by the company. According to Canoo, it hopes to launch its subscription-only EV service starting in 2021, in Los Angeles.

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Beyond Meat unveils two new versions of its Beyond Burgers

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The two new options will be available on store shelves in 2021, but will be on offer at a two-day pop up event in Los Angeles for folks to try. Beyond Meat has launched two new versions of its Beyond Burgers, the company announced today.

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Tesla Model Y orders are now open

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.” Under that timeline, deliveries wouldn’t begin until late 2020 or possibly early 2021. There are other clues on the order page, including that the seven-seat interior won’t be available until 2021. Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Model Y on Thursday night at the Tesla Design Studio in Los Angeles.

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Shareholders approve Bird-SPAC merger, stock promptly falls

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This year, the company expects — looking at predictions that included results through Q2 2021 — to post positive gross margins. million in Q2 2021, its best result ever, and one of only four quarters in which the result was positive. For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020. So what?

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