Sep 14, 2020
During a Prof G Show podcast (by Scott Galloway), NYU professor, Arun Sundararajan, gave his opinion around which entities will drive the mobility space (a space that I'm defining as transportation-as-a-service with self driving vehicles).
Sep 9, 2020
On the heels of the General Motors - Nikola partnership announcement, today we learn that GM has developed a wireless battery management system that's a "first in any EV anywhere," according to IEEE Spectrum.
Sep 8, 2020
While Tesla gets lots of attention, GM has been building electric and autonomous vehicle capabilities over many years that seem to be missed by many.
Aug 31, 2020
Forbes has a very interesting article describing the "peace dividend" concept.
Jul 9, 2020
Elon Musk once described Tesla's lead over the competition in developing self-driving cars during an interview using the tennis analogy of "game, set, match." My interpretation was that Musk believes Tesla's development was so far ahead of everyone that no other company could catch up allowing Tesla to win the self-driving vehicle race.
Jun 27, 2020
Recently I wrote that TaaS development seemed to be a three-horse race between GM, Tesla, and Waymo.
Jun 25, 2020
In January, GM announced its Cruise Origin as a vehicle that's designed to be shared, autonomous and electric.
Jun 18, 2020
Elon Musk has been quoted that he doesn’t believe traditional automakers will beat Tesla in the development of autonomous electric vehicles because the solution is mostly a software problem.
May 14, 2020
GM’s Cruise autonomous driving subsidiary announced yesterday it’s laying off 8 percent of it’s full-time employees.
May 12, 2020
The title of this post was motivated by a financial piece about GM in Seeking Alpha written by Aaron Butler.