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Are the glory days of German carmakers gone forever?

Pietro Micheli, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick The car industry is rarely out of the news, often under gloomy headlines related to tariffs, falling...

Car brake dust can be more harmful than diesel exhaust – new study

James Parkin, University of Southampton and Matt Loxham, University of Southampton Exposure to air pollution is associated with around seven million premature deaths per year...

Electric vehicle batteries can last almost 40% longer in the real world than in lab tests

Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology When we see “tested under laboratory conditions”, we often assume real-world conditions will lead to faster degradation of a...

How the Renault-Nissan Alliance overcame crisis and redefined collaboration over two decades

Magali Ayache, CY Cergy Paris Université and Hervé Dumez, European Academy of Management (EURAM) Nissan and Honda announced fusion recently. By the end of 2023,...

As EV sales surge, the UK car industry could be about to reach a turning point

Peter Wells, Cardiff University Last year, electric car registrations in the UK topped those of Germany. The number of UK sales (382,000 vehicles) came from...

Electric vehicle fires: How worried should we really be?

César Martín-Gómez, Universidad de Navarra; Mohd Zahirasri Bin Mohd Tohir, Universidad de Navarra, and Victor Debeure, IMT Nord Europe – Institut Mines-Télécom Electric vehicles (EVs)...

Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks – new report

Katharine Kemp, UNSW Sydney New research reveals serious privacy flaws in the data practices of new internet connected cars in Australia. It’s yet another reason...

Volkswagen: the end of a German industrial myth?

Frédéric Fréry, ESCP Business School In late October 2024, Volkswagen’s works council announced that the group’s management was considering closing three factories in Germany, which would...

No, America’s battery plant boom isn’t going bust – construction is on track for the biggest factories

James Morton Turner, Wellesley College; Joshua Busby, The University of Texas at Austin, and Nathan Jensen, The University of Texas at Austin The United States...

Is your car a threat to national security? It can be – regardless of where it’s made

Dennis B. Desmond, University of the Sunshine Coast In April, US lawmakers urged President Joe Biden to ban Chinese-built electric vehicles (EVs), labelling them an...

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