Capital raising

Asset sales in Q2 helped Nikola add cash to its balance sheet, but losses widened as ramp-up of fuel cell trucks consumed cash.

Capital markets that have been freezing out mobility startups may be thawing with Aurora Innovation raising $820 million in new funding.

Electric work truck startup Atlis Motor Vehicles has crowdfunded $32.6 million from nearly 29,000 investors as it readies a public offering.

Nikola is raising money to scale its production of electric trucks through sales of new stock and tapping an equity line of credit.

Nikola is asking shareholders to dilute their investment by authorizing 200 million new shares of the electric truck maker that could raise $1.5 billion.

Outside funding totals nearly $5 billion as Waymo’s expenses rise to expand driverless ride hailing and high-autonomy trucking software.

Sweden’s Einride startup attracts multiple global investors for scaling its cabless and driverless freight pods with U.S. entry this year.

With TuSimple going public by IPO, a new report says rival autonomous trucking software developer Plus will soon follow via SPAC.

Motiv Power Systems can tap $15 million in new cash from its largest investor as it fulfills pandemic-delayed orders for software and power electronics for electric trucks.

By providing leases that include hydrogen and maintenance for its fuel cell electric trucks for seven years, Nikola projects it will generate $3 billion in revenue by 2024.

Singapore-headquartered liquefied petroleum gas and petrochemicals ocean carrier, Epic Gas (OB:EPIC-ME) today announced minimal losses of US$300,000 in the first quarter of 2019. That’s an improvement of 89 percent, which represents a U$2.4 million uptick from the losses recorded in the first quarter of 2018.