It took eight months for IT specialists and engineers at Stark Solutions to disassemble a Ford Raptor F-150 into its smallest parts and then transform it into a gasoline-powered vehicle that resembles the Cybertruck.
The coronavirus has the potential to disrupt games that have long been a key cog in many automakers’ marketing strategies, but it’s also one of the few appealing options to reach a big audience.
It could become the first car to offer motorists Level 3 autonomy, but major markets, including the U.S., are not ready for the technology.
Auto-tech startups are eschewing the traditional path of initial public offerings and are instead going public by merging with special purpose acquisitions corporations.
With Florida still reeling from the COVID-19 shutdown, Gov. Ron DeSantis has extended the moratorium on evictions and signed on to the federal government’s unemployment supplement plan. Those are good move, but they are basically Band-Aids. There are long-term solutions to Florida’s economic problems, like ending corporate tax breaks that have made the state a tax haven for big businesses. Lawmakers need to look at that and other measures because Band-Aids won’t fix the problems.