Tag Archives: electric cars

One usually talk about the “last mile” but in this case I find it catchier, and more appropriate, to call this the “first mile”. A Singaporean start up, QiQ Global is planning is busy at work to deliver their (ugly) cars to help Singaporean get to the nearest subway station …

Flying, to a layperson like me, seems like requiring quite a lot of energy (power consuming). As a matter of fact thisis not the case. An airplane is pretty thirsty on fuel but only during the take off and climbing phase. The real flight at constant altitude is not that …

We have already moved quite a long way from Henry Ford’s famous statement: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” He didn’t actually wanted to limit customer’s choice, he wanted to produce a car that could be affordable for (mostly) …

I’ve been considering buying an electric car but so far I have been restrained by the problem of recharging it, both at home and over long trips (a 600km trip is usual for me over the week end and that goes beyond a single charge). At home the problem is …

3. Industry platforms II A separate post to discuss a quite different sort of platform, the car platform. It has been used by the car manufacturing industry for over 50 years now as a way to decrease the cost of production. The idea is to have a common base: floor …

Lyft, a ride-hailing company, is trying to differentiate its offer from Uber. It has focussed at the business market trying to become the ride-hailing company for companies by striking agreement with several of them in their US market to carry their employees. Last week it has included in the app …

Car manufacturers have already started to wonder how to re-invent themselves at a time when the value perception of their customers will be significantly different and new players might be better placed to offer the new values sought by customers. The shrinking of the market for vehicles (with an expected …

The change in value perception is one of the factor leading to a change in the economics in the transportation sector, not the only one but surely an important one. If the market, people, no longer perceives a value in the ownership of a car, clearly that companies selling cars …