The Guidehouse Transportation research team is back to discuss BMW’s big South Carolina electric vehicle investment announcement, the potential impacts of Euro 7 emissions regulations on the European trucking industry, ICAO’s carbon neutral aviation strategy, Shell backing away from consumer hydrogen distribution in the UK and a retrenchment in the US micromobility and delivery bot sector.
This week the Guidehouse Insights transportation team brings news and discussion of BYD’s new factories in Thailand, repowering trucks with electrification in Europe, simulation for urban digital twins, burning micromobility batteries and new interior safety features of the upcoming Volvo EX90
The Guidehouse Transportation Insights podcast is back after a summer break with some new team members and some fascinating topics. Recent additions to the Guidehouse transportation research team are Mike Austin, Oliver Dixon and Elizabeth Wilson joining Sagie Evbenata, Scott Shepard and Sam Abuelsamid. This the team discusses what Mike learned at the Battery Show in Novi, Mich. Oliver has the latest on electric truck introductions from Volvo and a new pay per use business model from Iveco and Sam visited Cruise and Zoox and went for a ride in some robotaxis.
The Guidehouse transportation team is back after a bit of a break due to scheduling conflicts. This week, Joe Jannotta has the news of Honda and Sony forming a joint venture to build electric vehicles. Scott Shepard brings us the new Mercedes-Benz eActros electric tractor trailer and megawatt charging. Sagie Evbenata goes back to Honda and its new micromobility venture Striemo and Sam Abuelsamid talks about the NHTSA release of crash data involving driver assist and automated vehicles.
This week Scott Shepard discusses Daimler’s start of series production of the eCascadia semi and Sysco’s order for 800 units. We delve into the challenges of charging big rigs and operating them on longer routes. Note that while Tesla has started taking $20,000 reservations for its semi, there’s no indication of when it will make it to production.
Christian covers the progress that Joby Aviation is making with its eVTOL program and the challenges it faces with trying to get FAA certification for this very new type of aircraft. Finally, Sam dives into expanding pilot deployments of actual driverless automated vehicles with Argo AI this week launching driver-out operations in Miami and Austin. Note that Tesla vehicles still cannot operate as robotaxis and may not ever reach that threshold.
