The European Automotive Industry at a Crossroads

21 January 2025

January 21, 2025
Author esimoudis
Comments 0
Views 1776
Likes0

The European Automotive Industry at a Crossroads

Just before the holidays, I was asked to keynote an event sponsored by the German American Chamber of Commerce. This article is an updated version of that presentation. It is even more relevant today following CES 2025 and the news streaming out of Europe. 1. Introduction In 2019, I co-authored […]

18 December 2024

December 18, 2024
Author esimoudis
Comments 0
Views 830
Likes0

Yearend Thoughts On the OEMs’ Path to New Mobility

Autonomous Vehicles

A couple of days ago, while maintaining my website, I realized that I hadn’t written a new blog post for over two months. It’s not that I haven’t been writing. I published several invited pieces relating to my new book and am currently working on a piece about the European […]

26 March 2024

March 26, 2024
Author esimoudis
Comments 0
Views 1667
Likes0

The OEMs’ Dilemma with Software-Defined Vehicles

Uncategorized

Automakers are facing a complex dilemma relating to software-defined new energy vehicles. Should they proceed with aggressively investing and developing software-defined vehicles while facing a slowdown in demand for battery electric vehicles (BEVs), or continue developing Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) and hybrid vehicles (including plug-in hybrids) that are based on […]

14 February 2019

February 14, 2019
Author Evangelos Simoudis
Comments 0
Views 6724
Likes0

Requirements for Growing and Scaling Autonomous Mobility

Big Data, Next-generation mobility

This post presents an analysis of the autonomous vehicles innovation lifecycle. It introduces four dimensions for assessing AV innovation performance over time. Finally, it presents six requirements that will need to be addressed before the use of autonomous vehicles can scale for consumer transportation and logistics.