by Future Tech | Nov 30, 2024 | _Future tech_, _What's Hot_
The news is grim – and getting worse. For some time, the European automotive industry ran entire factories below break-even point, as it struggled with moving ‘national’ emblems into more cost-effective economies. Indeed, the inertia of moving an entire plant from one...
by Future Tech | Oct 1, 2024 | _Future tech_, _What's Hot_
Let’s start with ‘be careful about what you wish for’! Jaguar established a deeply engrained image – now called ’brand’ – based on beautiful cars, discussions about the future as WW2 bombs fell, five wins at Le Mans and fabled trips at speeds of 150 mph or more across...
by Future Tech | Aug 1, 2024 | _Future tech_, _What's Hot_
Long ago on 10th December 1997 Toyota introduced the first generation of Prius that went on sale in Japan only with many aspects completed largely by hand from electric motor winding to assembly of the body. The second phase from 2000 to 2003 was sold in selected...
by Future Tech | Aug 1, 2024 | _Future tech_, _What's Hot_
Globally the vehicle manufacturing industry has undergone a revolution – hybrids during the early part of this century, and then in the past decade, full electric drive. The upshot is while some markets are driven towards a political electric only Utopia (EU27, UK,...
by Whats Hot | Apr 1, 2024 | _Future tech_, _What's Hot_
The wonderful world of vehicle manufacturers is under massive pressure to change, driven by legislation, consumer choices and international trading. The collision repairers are down stream of this, and the increasing chaos will have quite an effect, eventually. When...
by Whats Hot | Feb 1, 2024 | _Future tech_, _What's Hot_
Broadly the evolution of ADAS to full autonomy up to SAE level 2 has been implemented, although true level 2 applications are rare. However, everyone from politicians to venture capitalists think SAE level 5, where the user does nothing but get into- or out of a...
