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Car-sharing, ride-hailing, electrification, connectivity and the rapid emergence of autonomous vehicles in passenger and industrial transportation are potentially as disruptive as the switch from horse and cart to the car and the railways, let alone rockets to Mars, flying cars with Lilium or Volocopter or the hyperloop.

Corporate venture capitalists from a widening group of industries, including insurance, logistics and software and even a vacuum-maker in Dyson, as well as the established automotive sector, are therefore seeking and backing new…