Firms like Nissan, Renault and BMW have plugged serious money into electrification but a coherent vision is key It’s hard to look ahead when you are fighting fires, but for years now, across the automotive industry, yesterday’s crisis has been merging into tomorrow’s crisis, every perfect storm somehow becoming yet more perfect. The pattern is
Investors must not take eyes off the ball Pressure on oil and gas companies Oil and gas companies are under even more pressure to define their future and what role they want to play in the energy transition. After initially slow progress with the global climate agenda, 2021 feels as if it could be an
History is full of Black Swan moments, where everyone expected life to carry on as it had done for decades and then it didn’t. Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized the term with his book of that title, published in 2007, just in time to make it look like he foresaw the 2008/9 stock market crash, which
President-Elect Joe Biden has unveiled a plan for building a modern sustainable infrastructure and an equitable clean energy future. It’s a vision based largely on the assumption of a massive wave of investment in electric vehicles. But Biden is not just dreaming, he intends to act: “Biden also plans to invest big in carbon-free public
Covid has caused a slump in new car sales that could slow the switch to electric vehicles, pushing up emissions The Government should slap a 50 per cent tax on the most polluting cars from next year to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles over the next decade, experts have said. New analysis from the
On 18th November, Boris Johnson announced that no petrol or diesel cars and vans would be sold in the UK from 2030. We all knew it was coming, but the announcement still managed to send shockwaves through the media and the wider public. The Prime Minister has labelled his ten-point action plan, which includes investment
While some car makers will easily hit their EU emissions targets, others are in trouble The enforced need to dramatically reduce the CO2 emissions of cars sold in the European Union and UK this year has led to expensive stumbles from manufacturers including BMW, Ford and Jaguar Land Rover as new electrified technologies faltered at
A TEENAGER is on a mission to get as many other young drivers using electric vehicles as possible. Harrison Hughes from Hove is so passionate about electric cars that he saved up to buy a second-hand one before he had even passed his driving test. The 17-year-old said: “For years I’ve been fascinated that you
Consumer demand for electric cars is about to turn a dramatic corner, but how many auto brands will have a real story to tell about innovation? It’s not long ago that only the Tesla S, Nissan Leaf, BMW i3 and Renault Zoe were the only pure electric cars we’d spot on the roads, year after
Like most things, the government’s plan to ban petrol and diesel cars by 2030 wasn’t much of a secret, so its announcement last night won’t come as a surprise to many in the motor trade. The prime minister Boris Johnson has bought forward the deadline to ban the sale of traditionally fuelled cars in less
