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My iPhone is made in China, so are the LEDs I use at Christmas time and a countless number of other objects setting the pace to my daily life. However my car has always been European made … (current one was made in Germany but I had many made in …

Electric Vehicles are expected to increase in number through this decade possibly equalling the ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) in terms of sales by 2030 and overtaking them from then on. This will require a tremendous increase in production of batteries and given a few more years a huge issue in …

In the second quarter earnings call of Tesla Elon Musk warned investors that as anybody else in the market Tesla is facing a shortage of chips. After the slow down due to the pandemic, the market has picked up steam and sales have rebounded but now the chip shortage is …

Bullet trains have circulated on rails for some decades now, starting in Japan on October 1st 1964 in time for the Tokyo Olympics. After that first bullet train, Shinkansen, we have seen hgh speed trains expanding in Europe and more recently in China. The first bullet train, still in operation …

Design in the cyberspace is a reality since many years now. First it was the use of CAD to create a digital model, then tis digital model was shared with the supply chain to design components. Nowadays several platforms operating in the cloud allow co-design of a product by having …

In the previous post I discussed the expected evolution of batteries for EV, particularly with respect to their life time, a factor impacting the overall cost of operating the car (as well as the management of battery waste, the shorter their life span, the more waste to manage), The second …

Cars generate more and more data, process them and derive meaning. Additionally, they are going to receive more and more data from the environment (including data from other cars). This deluge of data need to be translated into information that is helpful. In turns, this requires the information to be …

One of the interesting part of the FTI’s report is the one focussing on the evolution of the transportation sector that will change the status quo of manufactures as well as the value perception of the market. If you think about it, for decades the competition among manufacturers have been …

Last December (2020) a draft document prepared by the European Commission indicated a target of 30 million electric vehicles on the European roads in 2030. Transportation contributes for 1/4 of greenhouse gas emission and 30% of CO2 emission in Europe. The 30 million electric cars figure is considered a “must” …

Sustainability is a good thing, nobody would deny it. We hear a lot of talking about sustainability, at political leve, at marketing level and on newspapers/media. The truth is that we have polluted the planet, as any other species starting with the massive pollution created by cyanobacteria that 2.5 billion …