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8 juin 18

GM Cruise gets $2.25b investment from SoftBank Vision Fund

The Japanese SoftBank Vision Fund will invest $2.25 billion in GM Cruise Holdings LLC, providing the company with additional funds to commercialise AV technology at large scale. GM will itself invest $1.1 billion in GM Cruise once the transaction finalised.

“Our Cruise and GM teams together have made tremendous progress over the last two years,” said GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. “Teaming up with SoftBank adds an additional strong partner as we pursue our vision of zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion.”

“GM has made significant progress toward realizing the dream of completely automated driving to dramatically reduce fatalities, emissions and congestion,” said Michael Ronen, managing partner, SoftBank Investment Advisers. “The GM Cruise approach of a fully integrated hardware and software stack gives it a unique competitive advantage. We are very impressed by the advances made by the Cruise and GM teams, and are thrilled to help them lead a historic transformation of the automobile industry.”

Image: car interior without a steering wheel (GM Cruise)

Authored by: Benjamin Uyttebroeck