The UK car and van market is changing faster now than at any time over the last 100 years, with agency models coming in, new Chinese OEM EV entrants disrupting European OEMs, connectivity pressure...

China has retained the top position when it comes to progress toward an EV future, but the UK is now fifth, behind Norway, Sweden and Germany, according to the latest EY Electric Vehicle Country...

Ahead of the review of the CO2 standards for cars and vans, the President of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), Oliver Zipse, has cautioned that the new, green Europe should...

According to a report by IBM Institute for Business Value, it’s estimated that 62% of the automotive industry is set to utilise blockchain technology for various use-cases by 2021. Some of the most...

AX is to provide mobility solutions to personal members of the AA’s breakdown service and to AA motor insurance customers who report an accident directly with them. Acting as an extension of the...

In a complex automotive world, the industry is under attack from people who don’t actually understand the business and certainly are not interested in the empirical data, and who are coming up with...

Toyota Financial Services is taking a majority stake in ‘incentivised carpooling’ pioneer Faxi, with the key objective of becoming a mobility services provider and help to reduce single occupancy...

More than 35 retail groups and six US-based National Sales Companies are now using Cox Automotive’s Clutch platform to underpin their customer subscription services. The subscriptions allow vehicle...

Driverless shared mobility fleets will need vehicle utilisation rates above 70% in order to undercut the current cots of vehicle ownership. Without this high level of utilisation, downtime could be...

The future for the automotive sector is less about a rapid pivot to autonomous, electrified mobility and more about transforming the customer experience to one that is digital, omnipresent, and...

ITS (UK)’s Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Interest Group has responded to the Transport Select Committee’s MaaS inquiry agreeing that there is significant global and UK interest in the concept, but...

The convergence of disruptive technologies, government policies and new business models will usher in a new era of multidimensional competition in the automotive market. A shift from buying cars to...

The future of the car industry has never been under as much pressure from so many different directions as it is right now, with authorities, the consumer and the environment all likely to have an...

The headlines from the Consumer Electronics Show in 2017 were slightly different to those of five years previous; the car manufacturers had moved in. Alongside in-car technology and wireless charging,...

When science fiction wants to show a glimpse at the world of transportation in years to come, more often than not it takes us to a highly evolved version of a city, and rarely ventures to more rural...

The rise of connected cars has come in a variety of forms, and from a number of different directions, with manufacturers and aftermarket installers both tapping into the modern car, and recording...

We are at the threshold of unprecedented value creation for industry and society, driven by the accelerating pace of change enabled through digital technology. And these digital technologies can...

By 2025, retailers will be focused more on higher numbers of vehicles sold than on higher profit margins. And although the dealership will remain the dominant sales outlet, purely online transactions...

Car retailers have a crucial role to play in the implementation of innovative new technology into the market over the next few years. This is the view of Matthew Avery, Thatcham’s director of...

Technology has had an impact on every area of the car buying process, altering what people expect from their cars, inside and out, and arguably even influencing how they expect to buy them. After all,...