Stefan Nicola
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Sky-high car prices have only one direction to go from here
Automakers are testing the limits of what consumers can stomach. Expect stickers to slowly work their way back down. → Read More
First Fully Remote-Controlled Cars Drive on Roads in Europe
Germany’s Vay has become the first company to deploy a vehicle without a human being inside on a European public road, a milestone the startup says paves the way for a remote-controlled mobility service within months. → Read More
Berlin Tries to Cut Private Car Use With One-Stop Mobility App
The city’s public transport operator has built a go-to platform for getting around. → Read More
The UK Car Industry’s Prospects Go From Bad to Worse
The government’s £55 billion tax and spending cut plan adds insult to injuries — both Brexit-related and self-inflicted. → Read More
Porsche believes it can make more profit selling electric cars
The German sports-car maker plans to list this year and expects more price power for its EVs. → Read More
Europe’s Auto Lobby Exits Reflect Fault Lines in EV Transition
In a matter of weeks, two carmakers announced plans to leave the ACEA. → Read More
Mercedes Makes High-End Luxury Moves That Pose a Few Risks
CEO Ola Kallenius’s strategy has helped turbocharge profitability. Will it work when the supply-chain crisis is over? → Read More
Musk and Google Add to $2 Billion Boost for Carbon Removal
The delay in cutting emissions is opening up opportunities for technologies that promise to undo climate damage. → Read More
Mercedes-Benz chips into the solid-state battery funding bonanza
Stellantis, BMW and VW also have placed bets on promising technology that could hasten EV adoption. → Read More
VW praises and BMW pans Tesla as German plant nears production
Before the year is over, Elon Musk wants to start production at Tesla’s new electric-vehicle factory outside Berlin. While he’s cautioned that ramping up Model Y output at the facility in the small town of Gruenheide will be challenging, the development is the talk of the German auto industry nonetheless. → Read More
VW Pulls Back Curtain on New Electric-Car Battery Lab in Germany
Welcome to the Hyperdrive daily briefing, decoding the revolution reshaping the auto world, from EVs to self-driving cars and beyond. → Read More
Stealth Robocar Startup Sees Remote Drivers as Autonomy Shortcut
Deploying vast fleets of robocars has been much tougher than Tesla Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo and others thought. One European startup is now pitching an intermediate step to full autonomy: teledriving. → Read More
Driverless? No, But How About the Car as Co-Pilot?
Some 17 years ago, the U.S. military kicked off the race to build a self-driving car by sending a fleet of fledgling robot vehicles across the Mojave Desert in its seminal 2004 Darpa challenge. The industry has made significant progress since, putting features like hands-free driving and crash-avoidance systems into mass-produced models. Such systems are making driving safer and easier than… → Read More
Hyperdrive Daily: Will Ferrell Was on to Something About Norway
Welcome to the Hyperdrive daily briefing, decoding the revolution reshaping the auto world, from EVs to self-driving cars and beyond. → Read More
Germany Returns U.K. to Virus-Risk List Over Variant Concern
Germany returned the U.K. to its list of Covid-19 risk areas, widening the impact of Britain’s rise in cases linked to the so-called India variant. → Read More
How Germany’s Greens Moved From Fringe to Contenders
Germany’s Green Party has come a long way from its origins as an environmental fringe group back in the 1980s. The Greens participated in national governments led by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats between 1998 and 2005, and for the past decade have run the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, an industrial powerhouse home to carmaker Daimler AG and software developer SAP… → Read More
Hyperdrive Daily: The Struggle to Save U.K. Carmaking
Welcome to the Hyperdrive daily briefing, decoding the revolution reshaping the auto world, from EVs to self-driving cars and beyond. → Read More
The Super League Went Supernova Over the Beautiful Game’s Future
European football club owners wanted a U.S.-style competition, but they failed to account for the passion of fans. → Read More
Tesla Needs to Crack Europe’s $360 Billion Corporate Car Market
The EV maker’s smaller servicing network and refusal to offer discounts on bulk purchases make it harder to compete with established brands. → Read More
Tell Your Boss the Four-Day Week Is Coming Soon
A century after the invention of the weekend, more companies are adding another day. → Read More