The BMW Group is opening a new chapter in its history with the unveiling of a pure-electric Gran Coupe. The BMW Concept i4 takes electric drive to the core of the BMW brand and heralds a new era in Sheer Driving Pleasure. The BMW Concept i4 represents a look ahead to the BMW i4, slated…
Year 2030 will be the global ‘tipping point’ for sustainable mobility in the world’s largest cities, according to Kantar’s Mobility Futures study, confirming the IDTechEx study just before. Kantar predicts private car journeys in the world’s largest cities decreasing 10% by 2030 due to the sharing economy, multi-modality, autonomous vehicles and ageing population. The analysis shows offset by increased public transport, cycling and walking. Kantar surveyed 20,000…
The light commercial vehicle market is at the dawn of a revolution; the future is electric. The main discourse around on-road vehicle electrification has been primarily focused on environmental concerns about the automotive sector’s contribution to climate change and the damaging effect on human health of exhaust pollutants. For businesses keen to address the environmental…
GERRY MALLOY Fast-moving industry trends such as electromobility, autonomous driving and car sharing are having a major impact on the future plans, and finances, of the world’s automakers. Those impacts are being exacerbated by regulations designed to combat climate change that forcibly accelerate the rate of change well beyond the evolutionary pace that has long…
