by Randall McAdory | Sep 14, 2020 | Amazon, Electric Vehicles, GM Cruise Automation, Tesla, Transportation as a Service, Uber, Waymo
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). Sundararajan believes...
by Randall McAdory | Sep 9, 2020 | Batteries, General Motors, Tesla
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. Not even tech-forward Tesla has...
by Randall McAdory | Sep 8, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, General Motors, GM Cruise Automation, Nikola, Tesla
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. Now that the GM-Nikola partnership has been announced, maybe GM will begin to get some investor credit for its...
by Randall McAdory | Aug 31, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles
Forbes has a very interesting article describing the “peace dividend” concept. The peace dividend was first established during the smartphone wars which drove significant technologies in mobile computing capability. Cameras, GPS, batteries, sensors,...
by Randall McAdory | Jul 10, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk, Tesla
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...