This week on Guidehouse Transportation Insights, we’ve got news of an expanded electric vehicle partnership between General Motors and Honda focused on more affordable EVs for the masses. Alphabet brings Wing drone deliveries to Texas, UPS trials new 4-wheel electric assist pedal cargo vehicles in London and the UK expanding production and distribution of hydrogen. Finally, we discuss the potential impacts of mandates to end sales of new internal combustion vehicles.
This week, Joe Jannotta discusses the recently announced bidirectional charging and demand response pilot program announced by General Motors and PG&E. Christian Albertson covers the acquisition of Pipistrel and how it might impact future products from Textron’s other aviation brands. Ryan Citron dives into how skyrocketing gas prices are contributing to increased EV sales, especially e-bikes. Sagie Evbenata takes a look at how Nvidia is integrating HD mapping including its recent acquisition of DeepMap into its Hyperion automated driving stack. Sam discusses some of the latest announcements in EV battery production including the just announced Stellantis-LG Energy joint-venture in Windsor, Ontario.
This week on the Guidehouse Transportation Insights podcast Sagie Evbenata discusses London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan to expand the ultra low emissions zones to eventually encompass the entirety of the British capital. Joe Jannotta brings us the new wireless EV charging trial that Volvo is launching in Gothenburg, Sweden with Momentum Dynamics. Ryan Citron has new developments from micromobility battery swapping leader Gogoro including tests of solid state batteries. Sam Abuelsamid dives into Ford’s reorganization to create a separate business unit for EVs and how it might impact dealers and EV sales.
This week we have just three analysts on the show, but we have some great topics. Ryan Citron discusses a plan for new curbside public EV charging stations through a public-private partnership in St. Paul, MN that will support individual owners as well as a new electric carsharing network. Christian Albertson has a company developing a rocket-powered hypersonic air/space cargo craft that takes off and lands horizontally and gets anywhere in the world in 2 hours. Sam Abuelsamid discusses accelerating electric vehicle plans from legacy automakers including General Motors, Ford and Volvo.
The Guidehouse Insights Transportation analyst team is back after a holiday break. This week, Christian Albertson fills us in on the Eviation Alice, a sleek new 9-passenger electric regional aircraft. Ryan has news about Rivian filing a trademark for an electric bike and the prospects for automakers pairing e-bikes with larger EVs. Sagie provides a roundup on TuSimple’s first fully driverless run with one of its automated trucks and Sam highlights some of the announcements from CES including new chips for driver assist and automated driving from Mobileye and Qualcomm and Volvo’s plans to launch automated highway driving Ride Pilot in California.
This week Scott is out with a bout of laryngitis but Sagie Evbenata has news about new robotaxi pilots in China, Korea and Japan. Ryan Citron takes a look at how Gogoro is testing second life applications for its swappable micromobility batteries. Christian Albertson discusses the emissions from rocket launches and how CO2 could be captured to make rocket fuel. Sam Abuelsamid wraps up with more accelerated EV programs from legacy automakers.
On this edition of the Guidehouse Transportation Insights podcast, Sagie Evbanata discusses 7-Eleven’s experiments with automated deliveries in California and South Korea. Christian Albertson talks about United’s first passenger revenue flight that utilizes 100% sustainable aviation fuel. Ryan Citron delves into Kawasaki’s move into electric motorcycles. Scott Shepard tells us about Shell’s new partnership with Nio for battery swapping and Sam Abuelsamid describes what GM and Ford are trying to do to make themselves more resilient against future semiconductor supply disruptions.
Welcome to the first episode of the Transportation Insights podcast from the research analyst team at Guidehouse Insights. During the course of our research we track relevant news in our coverage areas and every two weeks we gather to discuss some of the top stories. Scott Shepard, Ryan Citron, Sagie Evbenata, Christian Albertson and Sam Abuelsamid cover the emerging technologies in transportation and mobility including electrification, micromobility, automated driving, and aviation. Subscribe in your podcast listening app of choice to get every episode.
This week we discuss developments in sustainable aviation fuel, drones attacking power stations, BP and Piaggio getting into scooters with swappable batteries for India, the Baidu Moon robotaxi, the Toyota bz4X and Waymo going into Manhattan.