Repercussions from the 2015 “Dieselgate” scandal continue to dog Volkswagen, which now faces charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for making deceptive claims about its vehicles’ emissions levels. Although the company claims that the cheating occurred at lower levels of the organization, the SEC charged that executives knew as early as 2007.…Read More
In an opinion piece, PVMI member Susan Helper blames both GM’s practices and U.S. public policies for the recent shutdown of a Lordstown, Ohio plant.…Read More
In the first half of 2018, China produced more than half of the global total of electric vehicles, and twice as many EVs as the year before. This acceleration could signal the emergence of a newly competitive Chinese auto industry.…Read More
Honda recently announced that it intends to shut down a U.K. factory in 2021, putting a total of 7000 jobs at risk. This figure includes 3500 direct employees as well as additional workers who “provide parts supply, logistics, and support to the Swindon factory,” the company said in a statement.…Read More
In a podcast for the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, PVMI Director John Paul MacDuffie takes a closer look at the ambitious environmental and industrial policies that have enabled the growth of China’s electric vehicle industry.…Read More
The future of mobility faces a plethora of possible solutions, from electric vehicles to self-driving and connected cars, even declining car ownership in favor of eco-friendly and intelligent public transportation. Along with co-authors Venkat Sumantran, and David Gonsalvez, PVMI member Charles Fine has released a timely new book attempting to read these trends and offer authoritative predictions for the industry.…Read More
2017 experienced a sharp decrease in the number of vehicles sold for US automakers, putting an end to seven years of sales growth. Despite this drop, PVMI director John Paul MacDuffie asserts that “it was a strong year,” as electric cars and autonomous vehicle are on the rise.…Read More
In the coming years, conventional cars will be as obsolete as rolling typewriters, according to RethinX, a Bay Area think tank. With the emergence of electric vehicles and Transportation-as-a-Service (TaaS), experts disagree about the likely adoption rate of shared autonomous transportation. …Read More
Advances in vehicle technologies promise to reinvent how we get around. The PVMI Connected Vehicle conference attempted to predict a timeline for the coming disruption.…Read More
Electric cars have been in the market for years but do not yet have the prevalence of traditional gasoline vehicles. To figure out when the tipping point of adoption may be, PVMI sponsored a forecasting challenge to predict when electric and self-driving vehicles will become mainstream.…Read More
