Quote of the day
“The winner ain’t the one with the fastest car, it’s the one who refuses to lose” -Dale Earnhardt
News
- Are automakers paying enough attention to long-term hardware reliability, or is speed-to-market still eating quality for breakfast?Out-of-the-factory quality is a vanity metric. Full-lifecycle consistency is the real competitive advantage. Recently in China, a massive batch of 177Ah LFP battery cells in…
- Ford and Geely just launched a joint manufacturing venture in Valencia, SpainIn 2010, Ford sold Volvo to Geely for $1.8 billion. Fast forward to today:Ford and Geely just launched a joint manufacturing venture in Valencia, Spain….
- BYD just rolled its 100,000th vehicle off the line in Camaçari, Brazil100,000 cars.In under 12 months.One plant outside Asia. While many traditional automakers are scaling back EV targets, BYD just rolled its 100,000th vehicle off the…
Review
- Trapped by Tradition: Legacy Detroit and German Automakers Stumble in the EV Design WarsFor nearly a century, automotive luxury was a game of centimeters and silhouettes. A long, sweeping hood, a cabin pushed aggressively over the rear axle,…
- The Ultimate Validation of Automotive Engineering?I was sitting at a traffic light today. To my left: A Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge. A Jeep Cherokee. And a Hyundai Sonata. Three completely…
- I spotted two completely different visions of the automobile sitting in trafficOn the front: a software-defined EV packed with sensors, processors, and code. On the back: a lightweight mechanical machine that looked straight out of the…