by Randall McAdory | Mar 1, 2020 | Electric Vehicles, General Motors, Hummer, Polestar, Rivian, Tesla, Volvo
On Friday state senators in Colorado passed a bill allowing electric vehicle makers like Rivian to sell directly to consumers. For auto dealers, the most controversial part of the bill was removed. This provision would have allowed automakers with franchised...
by Randall McAdory | Jan 16, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, General Motors, GM Cruise Automation, TaaS, Tesla, Transportation as a Service, Waymo
In the spirit of transparency, I do own shares of stocks of some companies mentioned by me within TaaS Master that are also in the transportations-as-a-service space. You may recall from a previous post that the ecosystem of autonomous companies is large and growing....
by Randall McAdory | Nov 25, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, General Motors
In a recent opinion piece on CNN Business, GM’s president (Mark Reuss) describes the three barriers to consumer acceptance of electric vehicle adoption: range, charging infrastructure, and cost. According to GM, range is the most significant barrier to EV...
by admin | Oct 12, 2019 | Dyson, Electric Vehicles, General Motors, Internal Combustion Engine, Rivian, Tesla, Volkswagen
That’s part of the title of a recent article in Automotive News (subscription required) describing Dyson’s decision to stop the development of an electric vehicle. As described in a prior post as well as here on TaaS Master, the company described an...
by Randall McAdory | Sep 25, 2019 | Amazon, General Motors
General Motors is bringing Amazon Alexa to the infotainment system of its vehicles next year. This was announced during the Amazon Devices event this week. Alexa will be added via over-the-air updates on model year vehicles of 2018 and newer. This Alexa announcement...
by Randall McAdory | Sep 18, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, General Motors, UAW
Today, there are 48,000 UAW GM employees on a labor strike against the automaker in the United States. Business Insider is suggesting that GM’s investments in developing EVs are exacerbating the labor dispute. Through June of this year, GM only sold...
