by Randall McAdory | Dec 29, 2020 | Amazon, Apple, Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Elon Musk, GM Cruise Automation, Microsoft, Rivian, TaaS, Tesla, Volkswagen, Waymo
Why is it that the Tesla fan believes all legacy automakers are doomed to fail in the race toward an electric and autonomous vehicle future? To the Fan Boys, a winner-take-all, zero-sum-game of Tesla winning while all others lose is the future. TI don not believe...
by Randall McAdory | Jun 25, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Geely, General Motors, GM Cruise Automation, TaaS, Tesla, Volkswagen, Volvo, Waymo
In January, GM announced its Cruise Origin as a vehicle that’s designed to be shared, autonomous and electric. Origin is the General Motors vehicle to be used primarily in transportation-as-a-service business solutions. Not to be left behind, today, Waymo and...
by Randall McAdory | Feb 28, 2020 | Tesla, Volkswagen
There are reports that VW is having software code issues with the new all-electric ID3 vehicle according to Automotive News (subscription required). The software problems are so challenging that 10,000 technicians are supposedly working to fix the software glitches....
by Randall McAdory | Jan 25, 2020 | Herbert Diess, Tesla, Volkswagen
Automotive News is reporting (subscription required) that VW’s CEO, Herbert Diess, is sending a not-so-subtle message to Elon Musk that the Volkswagen Group is coming after Tesla. Diess believes that his company will “keep pace with Tesla” and...
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 | Aug 14, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, General Motors, Suppliers, Volkswagen
In an interview with Automotive News Europe (subscription required), the head of Bosch Mobility Solutions, Stefan Hartung, discusses a whole range of auto industry issues related to electrification, fuel cells, the internal combustion engine, and autonomous vehicle...
