By Tim Higgins, Published June 20th, 2017 Ride-sharing and self-driving vehicles will redefine our relationship with cars. Automakers and startups are already gearing up for the change. Cars are going to undergo a lot of changes in the coming years. One of the biggest: You probably won’t own one. Thanks to ride sharing and the…
By Bill Clasic, September 1st, 2016 DETROIT — It was a good run while it lasted. But a bigger-than-expected decline in the August auto sales numbers reported on Thursday indicated that the industry’s long and robust growth cycle may have reached its end. For six years, since the end of the economic recession, automakers have enjoyed…
Sami Grover (@samigrover) Published August 30, 2016 Electric vehicles won’t just change how we get around. They’ll transform large swathes of how our economy operates. That’s the thinking behind a new article from Michael Liebreich and Angus McCrone of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, in which they point out that similar economy-wide shifts have happened many times before:…
by Schalk Cloete Published July 25, 2016 In this article, the term “electric car” will refer to a 100% electric battery-powered car. Hybrids, plug-in hybrids and small electric vehicles (all of which I think have more potential than electric cars) as well as fuel cell vehicles (still too early to call) are not included. My general concern with…
By Don Lee, Published July 19th, 2016 Broken water mains, creaking subway systems, tens of thousands of rickety bridges and countless miles of shoddy, traffic-clogged roads. America’s infrastructure is crumbling. Never has there been a better time to bolster public investments and shore up one of the nation’s biggest competitive weaknesses, say many advocates for stepped-up…
BY EVGENY MOROZOV To understand why we see so few genuine alternatives to US technology giants, it’s instructive to compare the fate of a company like Uber – valued at more than $62.5bn (£44bn) – and that of Kutsuplus, an innovative Finnish startup forced to shut down late last year. Kutsuplus’s aspiration was to be…
BY DAN NEIL, PUBLISHED DECEMBER 1AT, 2015 When companies like Apple and Tesla roll out their autonomous vehicles, the need for a personal car might be a thing of the past HENRY FORD WAS A smart guy but he never did the math when he decided to put every American household on wheels. A century…
BY Klaus Philipsen, Published on July 1st, 2015 One of the standard figures of speech that politicians like to use is “kicking the can down the road.” In a time when it counts as long-term thinking to set the alarm for the next morning, this is exactly what happens time and again. Even though infrastructure…
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 4TH, 2014 BY TYLOR HILL Want to lower greenhouse gas emissions, get fit, and create new jobs? Ride a bike. That’s the finding of the first comprehensive study on Europe’s cycling industry, which details a cycling economy that employs more than 655,000 people in industries such as retail, manufacturing, infrastructure investment, and tourism. On…
BY ERIC JAFFE, PUBLISHED APRIL 16TH, 2015 Over at Wonkblog, Max Ehrenfreund breaks down how the rich and poor really spend their money, using a great new dataset from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that splits Americans into income deciles (ten equal-sized groupings). But the stats also show how the middle-class spend their money, and…
A post-automobile world? 