EV Pickups: The Week That Was
From a legislative squabble, to a COVID-19 superspreader event, to claims of fraud and deception, the race to bring a pickup truck to market with an electrified powertrain went into overdrive last week. At the heart of the contest is the purs...
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07/10/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
CA Prop 22: Vote 'No' on Greed
Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates, and Instacart are financing a $180M advertising blitz in California to support a ballot measure – Proposition 22 – which will override a bill – AB 5 – passed by the California Assembly that ...
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07/10/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
Qualcomm C-V2X Summit: C-V2X Sooner Than You Thought
Autonomous Vehicle Service
www.strategyanalytics.com
October 2020
Roger Lanctot
Tel: : +1 617-614-0714
Email: @strategyanalytics.com
Qualcomm put on a tour de force presentation in late
September, 2020, in an effort to provide a global view of C-
V2X development, deployment, and adoption. The event, a
Webinar
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01/10/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
Qualcomm C-V2X Summit: C-V2X Sooner Than You Thought
Infotainment and Telematics
www.strategyanalytics.com
October 2020
Roger Lanctot
Tel: +1 617-614-0714
Email: rlanctot@strategyanalytics.com
Qualcomm put on a tour de force presentation in late
September, 2020, in an effort to provide a global view of C-
V2X development, deployment, and adoption. The event, a
Webinar
Report
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01/10/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
Uber Pushes Array of Programs to Rebuild Business
Connected Mobility
www.strategyanalytics.com
September 2020
Roger Lanctot
Tel: +1 617-614-0714
Email: rlanctot@strategyanalytics.com
The onset of COVID-19 has been a severe test of the ride
hailing industry’s resiliency. As the poster child for the
industry, all eyes have turned to Uber. In response to this
COVID-19
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29/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
Google Tackles Quarantine Quandary
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
-- Robert Burns, "To a louse"
I live in a COVID-19 ghetto. Due to the recent blunder I made flying from the state of Virginia to the state of Connecticut without doing my res...
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28/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
Waze Wins with Traffic Porn
There are two killer apps in the connected car: Traffic and First Notice of Loss. Accurate traffic predictions are essential to routing. First notice of loss represents a potential pot of gold in avoided expenses or captured revenue...
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28/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
Tesla Teases Nationwide Insurance Expansion
“We are working super hard on insurance.” – Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk
The global automotive industry is a two-headed monster. On the one hand you have engineers designing vehicles around rigorous principles that take into a...
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25/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
V2X Overcoming Barriers to Adoption
Vehicle-to-everything communications will save lives and improve vehicular transportation, but not before multiple barriers to adoption are overcome. This was the conclusion of a three-way Webinar discussion between Lead Vehicle Architect Mi...
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24/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
The Car Data Monetization Muddle
Four years ago, this month, McKinsey published a report - "Monetizing Car Data" - which continues to simultaneously haunt and mock the automotive industry. The report claimed that by 2030 the so-called "car data market" would be worth as much as $...
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22/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
Autonomous Vehicles: Avoiding Obstacles and Responsibility
The headline screams off of the page and challenges all that we know about the fatal crash in Tempe, Ariz., that took the life of Elaine Herzberg two and a half years ago. “Backup Driver of Autonomous Uber SUV Charged with Negligent Hom...
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21/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
How Car Companies Can Combat Covid-19
The automotive industry has felt the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic with factory and dealership shutdowns, personal protective equipment and ventilator manufacturing, and accommodations to make, sell, and service cars in a post-pandemic world...
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18/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
Stopping GM's Mobility Madness
Four and a half years ago General Motors sank $500M into ride hailing service provider Lyft. At the time, the investment looked like a hedge against the success of mobility service providers but it was odd given that Lyft was the number two p...
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11/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
GM's Nikola Shell Game
At an industry event last year in Japan a senior General Motors executive in charge of electrification took the stage and commenced his talk by putting a picture of a massive GM diesel extended cab pickup towing an equally monstrous trailer on the...
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09/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive
GM's Nikola Shell Game
At an industry event last year in Japan a senior General Motors executive in charge of electrification took the stage and commenced his talk by putting a picture of a massive GM diesel extended cab pickup towing an equally monstrous trailer on the...
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09/09/2020
Roger Lanctot
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Automotive