Tesla has won. Not in the sense that the Silicon Valley electric vehicle maker has taken over the industry because they haven’t and probably won’t. But in the sense that the ultimate goal of the founders was to push the industry to electrification.…

In January 2019, General Motors GM announced that Cadillac would be the lead brand for its transition to full electrification. Since Henry Leland started Cadillac in 1902, the brand has only produced one plug-in vehicle, the ELR which was, to say the…

One of the most iconic visual indicators of self-driving vehicles is the spinning light imaging, ranging and detection Lidar sensor that is usually mounted on the roof. One of the top players in the development and manufacturer of automotive Lidar…

General Motors GM shared the first details of its third-generation electric vehicle architecture and Ultium battery system just about a month ago, but it won’t be the only automaker using this new EV hardware. Honda is now planning to build two new…

After 85 years of nearly continuous production (as with other vehicles, production was suspended during the second world war) the Chevy Suburban is the longest running nameplate in the industry. Along with its shorter sibling, the Tahoe, the Suburban…

Seven years after it disappeared from the North American market, the Ford Ranger is back. The Ranger never entirely went away though, continuing in overseas markets in the intervening years until Ford decided that the business case for midsize pickup…

As the automotive industry races to commercialize automated driving by the turn of the decade, the number of real power players in the space is rapidly consolidating. The latest move is Intel’s acquisition of Israeli machine vision leader Mobileye…

Back in 2016, when the Obama-era Department of Transportation issued its original automated vehicle safety guidance, part of the voluntary framework was the publication of safety reports by the companies developing these systems. In October 2017,…

As the world’s largest automotive supplier, Bosch produces a vast array of the components that go into the machines we drive. Bosch is also a pioneer in the field of driver assist systems going back to the launch of its electronic ABS in 1978. At CES…

I spent last week in San Francisco where I spoke at the annual Automotive Cybersecurity West Summit and chaired the ADAS to Self Driving Cars conference. I was particularly looking forward to the final day of the second conference because I was to…