Mobility
111 articles
Say goodbye to the steering wheel
For Karl-Thomas Neumann, chief executive officer of the Opel Group, there is no room for doubt: autonomous driving and electric vehicles are more than just buzzwords or passing fads.
Turning the auto industry upside down
Luca de Meo is a respected automotive industry player. He has twenty-five years’ experience working for Renault, Toyota, Fiat and, since 2009, the Volkswagen Group before taking the helm at SEAT last year.
Setting trends and saving the planet
In August 2016, just as the Renault-Nissan Alliance surpassed 100,000 annual sales of its EVs, Renault sold its 100,000th EV to a customer in Norway. The car, fittingly enough, was a Renault ZOE, the best-selling EV in Europe.
The intelligence to see way down the road
Encompassing eight global automobile brands, the Renault-Nissan Alliance was established in 1999 and last year sold 8.5 million units, one in 10 new cars worldwide.
SEAT’s Easy Mobility Team
In the next decade, the auto industry will undergo greater change than it has witnessed over the last century. Electrification, digitization, connectivity and mobility will all define personal transportation in the future.
The digital retail revolution
Since the advent of online banking and digital retailers such as Amazon and eBay, you can now get almost anything you can think of delivered to wherever you are with just a click.
Innovation outpaces insurance
Most car crashes are due to human error, so it makes sense to replace people with computers. However, even with autonomous driving accidents can still happen and questions about liability will inevitably arise.
Autonomous drive shifts into gear
The number of people sharing the planet continues to climb toward 9.7 billion by 2050, according to projections by the United Nations. Guaranteeing universal access to basic needs is the only means to prevent human conflict and environmental disaster.
Honda’s hydrogen society
Once you look beyond burning fossil fuels, using any source of powertrain for vehicles is, in theory, possible.
Ford: thinking outside the car and the box
Ford is revising its business model to focus not just on how many cars it sells, but what services it should offer.