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Kevin Mak
| Mar 24, 2014
On March 17th, Paris instituted a very brief ban on vehicles entering the city, based on license plate numbers, in a desperate attempt to limit pollution levels...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 22, 2014
A report in Automotive News this week noted the extraordinary lengths to which General Motors (GM) is going to prepare and support dealers taking on the recen...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 21, 2014
Volkswagen Chairman Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn used the made-up term “Datenkrake” when speaking at CeBIT last week to caution the converging comput...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 19, 2014
In what may have been the first CeBIT keynote by an automotive executive but hopefully not the last, Volkswagen’s Chairman of the Board of Management Prof...
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Roger Lanctot
| Mar 12, 2014
Apple’s CarPlay “introduction” at the Geneva Motor Show last week lacked all of the normal Apple trappings of a market changing event. ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Feb 04, 2014
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the United States has announced its plans to continue studying and investigating the use of dedicated shor...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 31, 2014
Two senior GM executives appear to be working and speaking at crosspurposes. This isn’t necessarily unusual, but given the fact that the focus of th...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 24, 2014
The CEOutlook newsletter recently reported on a promotional campaign via which Best Buy is offering customers coupons for free pairing of their smartphone with ...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 08, 2014
Car makers are diving head first into the app development arms race. This is leading to expensive decisions and decisions intended to avoid expensive outcomes. ...
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Kevin Mak
| Jan 07, 2014
In addition to developments in the wireless charging of hybrid and electric vehicles reported in the blog, EVS27 – Growing Interest in Electrification, Ne...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 06, 2014
NHTSA Administrator David Strickland may have the last word on investigations of Tesla, but it has nothing to do with cars catching fire. The word on the street...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 06, 2014
NisAfAfter demonstrating phenomenal lag-free video/computer game performance across intercontinental connections at its pre-CES press conference, NVIDIA announc...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 03, 2014
About a week ago I posted a blog debunking a report that Google would announce an automotive consortium at CES (http://tinyurl.com/m5hzrha - Rumors of Android C...
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Roger Lanctot
| Jan 01, 2014
Next week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2014) in Las Vegas is notable both for what will and what will not be on display. There will be 27 TechZones (h...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 30, 2013
Wireless carriers may shift from public service messages (2013’s multi-carrier “It Can Wait” campaign) to off-board policy control to mitigate...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 29, 2013
It is the expectation of the insurance industry as a whole that all policyholders will eventually be subject to participation in some form of usage-based insura...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 27, 2013
Earlier this year I published in a blog a list of my recommended Top Ten priorities for the incoming Secretary of Transportion, Anthony Foxx. Secretary Foxx rep...
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Roger Lanctot
| Dec 24, 2013
GM has been flooding YouTube with ads featuring OnStar this holiday season. The ads, which have been around since mid-year and have appearing previously on tele...
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