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Major corporations like PepsiCo, which operates its own fleet, and Coca-Cola bottlers were keen to try out and eventually bring electric semitrucks manufactured by Tesla, Daimler’s Freightliner eCascadia, Nikola, and Kenworth into their transportation networks. Numa, a company developing advanced AI agents to automate customer interactions for auto dealerships, raised $32 million in a Series B funding round co-led by Touring Capital and Mitsui & Co. Beta has made a name for itself building eVTOLs and eCTOLs (electric conventional takeoff and landing) with medical, cargo, and defense applications, but the passenger-carrying vehicle has been in the cards the whole time.

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