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Medium- and heavy-duty trucks are firmly on the path to electrification, guided by regulations which are either being finalised or have already been released. As can be expected, updated targets allow for incremental…

Starting in 2016, autonomous vehicles (AVs) began capturing the global imagination: Elon Musk announced that all new Teslas would eventually have the hardware needed to drive on their own, and Waymo launched its Early Rider…

Light duty vehicle (LDV) sales in North America have steadily increased over the past decade since the economic collapse of 2009. However, 2020 will tell a different story. In North America, LDV sales have decreased due to the…

The rapid development of the ‘Internet of Vehicles’ means intelligent vehicles are the future of the automotive industry. China aims to have vehicles with partial autonomy account for 50% of new sales by 2025. On 10 March 2020, the…

Reflecting on 2020 it is hard to look beyond COVID-19 and the impact it has had on society. From factory down time and employee furloughs to showroom lockdowns and a 30% decline globally in new car sales across the year, the sector…

2020 was always going to be a significant year for the automotive industry, but a global pandemic has sent its significance off the charts. After the sector ground to a halt this year, the industry will want to focus on…

German supply giant ZF is jockeying for a key position in the increasingly lucrative automotive software segment. Software is already at the heart of connecting vehicles and automating driving, and will continue to shape the future…

As in many sectors, COVID-19 had a significant impact on the automotive industry in 2020. Across the globe, factories closed, production declined, supply chains were severely affected, and demand decreased. It has been a tumultuous…

2021 will be an exciting year for the automotive sector, due to an acceleration of the mobility transformation seen throughout the last decade. The industry was already struggling with monumental challenges posed by the four…

2020 has been a remarkable year as the COVID pandemic touched our lives in multiple ways. It drove a simultaneous demand and supply shock to global economies leading to an unprecedented contraction of global GDP by about 4.4%. The…

There’s no doubt that the two biggest factors improving vehicle safety in the last 20 years or so have been the mandatory use of seat belts and the introduction of the European NCAP safety rating. Various studies indicate that seat…

Most modern vehicles on the road in the US are equipped with Absorbed Glass Mat (AGM) batteries, which have long been accepted as the go-to option for start-stop models. The right battery technology is essential for powering…

With 25.76 million passenger and commercial vehicles, more than 400 operating carmakers, and a single market accounting for 45% of all vehicles sold by the five most successful international carmakers, China is the world’s biggest…

Some industry analysts believe the car ownership model could soon be back in the ascendancy due to heightened concerns about health and hygiene during the pandemic. Suddenly, ride-hailing and other shared mobility options seem less…

While the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has upended the global automotive market during the past 12 months, the commercial-vehicle (CV) segment proved relatively less vulnerable than other sectors. The Economist…