Category: Guidehouse Insights

In August 2017, the Trump administration announced its intent to freeze corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) and CO2 emissions standards at 2020 levels, abandoning the previous plan for continued increases through 2025. While the auto industry had…

Over the past 14 years, Tesla has arguably had a bigger influence on the way vehicles are designed than any automaker since the early days of Ford and Cadillac in the early 20th century. Much of that influence is finally coming to fruition in 2020…

Cyber Security
Connected Vehicles
Automotive Cyber Security
Transportation Efficiencies
Autonomous Vehicles
When I first joined Guidehouse Insights as an analyst in August 2014, the very first entry I wrote for this blog came on the heels of the…

At the Frankfurt Motor Show this September, BMW displayed a one-off version of its new X6 SUV coated in a special paint called Vantablack from UK-based Surrey NanoSystems. This paint absorbs more than 99.965% of visible light that strikes it, making…

As I write this, countries scramble to contain the spread of COVID-19, a new coronavirus that sprung up in China in late 2019. Hundreds of millions of people in China, Iran, Italy, and elsewhere are told to stay home and avoid close contact with…

When most people think about auto racing, they focus mostly on how fast a car can get around the track. However, aside from drag racing, which poses its own unique challenges in sprinting down a quarter-mile of pavement, efficiency has long been as…

Chances are you have never heard the term autonowashing. Chances are equally good you have experienced it. The idea is that companies, mainly automakers and suppliers, are using the hype around automated driving to create the perception that their…

Corporate Average Fuel Economy
Transportation Efficiencies
Policy Regulation
Transportation Forecasts
The presidential executive order that commands two federal regulations to be rescinded for every new rule enacted probably will not have a direct…

Since the early 2000s, automakers have increasingly relied on voice recognition technology as an alternative to proliferating buttons and switches to manage new features. Unfortunately, these systems had to rely on limited local computing and storage…

If we’ve learned anything from the era of reality television and user-generated online video, it’s that a surprising number of people will risk great harm by misusing themselves or technology to get some online attention. Whether it’s blowing up a…