Pelikan Mobility is building a software-enabled commercial EV leasing solution

Chances are you may have noticed that many commercial vehicles are now electric vehicles — think about delivery vans, telecom minivans, utility maintenance trucks, etc. But there are still many diesel-powered commercial vehicles because it’s simply too expensive and too complicated to switch to an all electric vehicle fleet overnight. That’s why Pelikan Mobility has been … Read more

Rivian R1T EV leasing launches in select markets

Rivian electric pickup trucks sit in a parking lot at a Rivian service center on May 09, 2022 in South San Francisco, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Rivian on Monday started leasing select models of its all-electric R1T pickup truck, a move to expand sales and customer base beyond early adopters of electric vehicles. … Read more

TechCrunch+ roundup: South Korea investor survey, 1-hour board conferences, enterprise leasing fundamentals

After gross sales software program startup TigerEye closed its Sequence A and established a board of administrators, its co-founders put them on discover: One factor we’d wish to by no means do is the three-hour, too-in-the-weeds, non-strategic board assembly. “Each board deck I’ve made and seen is greater than 80 pages lengthy,” says Tracy Younger, … Read more