When we were visiting firms in Detroit a few weeks ago many of the executives pointed to China and India as emerging markets poised for…
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Economist: China’s New Cab Strategy
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I posted an article earlier this past week documenting the quasi taxi service UBER, which is used around the developed world in large urban…
Dark Times for the Auto Industry
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The first quarter of 2014 is drawing to a close for most public companies as they have had to release their financials. For the auto…
Zipcar is a blossoming company in the new market for shared car ownership. The concept of Zipcar is fairly simple; a person living in an…
For those unfamiliar with the service, Uber is an app one can get on his/her smartphone that allows an individual to request a vehicle to…
In Detroit we met with several of Ford’s upper level employees, who discussed where they saw growth opportunity in the future. Several times they pointed…
The UAW in a Post-Bankruptcy World
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The bankruptcy of the Detroit automobile manufacturing industry can point towards exceedingly high legacy costs from its contracts with UAW (United Automobile Workers) as a…
I have always thought of turbochargers in a naïve way as something that would be in a car in movies like The Fast and the…
Data Collection and Automobile Safety
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If I were to ask a random person which they perceived to be more dangerous, driving their car from Atlanta to DC or flying a…
This Huffington Post article discusses the struggle between auto companies and government regulators over the safety of driving cars with increasingly complex entertainment capacities. We…