by Phil Jackson | Feb 9, 2022
Here are some forecasts from BloombergNEF about the burgeoning electric vehicle marketplace for 2022: • They predict 10 million plug-in vehicle sales, or about 14% of all global vehicle sales. Compare this to 6.6 million in 2021 and 3.2 million in 2020. This number...
by Phil Jackson | Jan 26, 2022
Apparently, Subaru charges customers a monthly fee to enable the remote-start function on their cars. That is amazing – your car doesn’t need to be warmed up, and if you skip the fee you won’t be wasting energy and emitting extra emissions just because the car is a...
by Phil Jackson | Jan 12, 2022
In a recent article, The New York Times talked about the speed at which Norway has embraced electric cars. For new car sales last year, only 8% ran solely on gas or diesel. Two-thirds of new cars sold were electric, with most of the rest being hybrids. Contrast this...
by Phil Jackson | Dec 15, 2021
As of today, across our Group roughly 40% of our new car inventory is electrified. That’s pretty amazing, given that if this calculation was done a year ago it would have been less than 10%. Granted there are several factors in play here. The global disruption in...
by Phil Jackson | Dec 2, 2021
As I consider the ‘limited’ range of my new electric car, I find myself thinking that range-anxiety really isn’t anything of note. How many days a year do I drive longer than the 265-mile range on my new Polestar 2? Maybe a handful at best. So why should I choose to...
by Phil Jackson | Nov 19, 2021
Have a new Polestar 2 in the driveway – here are the initial takeaways:It is fast. And quick. And nimble. And powerful. Hit the gas and it moves. No lag at all. If you like to drive, electric is amazing.The new audio/visual interface with Google Android is fantastic....
by Phil Jackson | Nov 3, 2021
Here’s another impending and fascinating technological advance: wireless charging of electric vehicles. There is no chance I try to break down the science of it, but here is a very basic and I’m sure not-quite-perfectly-explained synopsis: you have a transmitter coil...
by Phil Jackson | Oct 20, 2021
Technological advances impact us across the breadth of our lives, and most of the time the everyday changes we notice are on a superficial level – a sleek new phone, a TV with even better resolution, an app which makes it easier to order take-out. But every so often...
by Phil Jackson | Oct 7, 2021
As the world moves away from internal combustion engines (ICE) and toward an electric future, there are going to be many changes. One fascinating difference will be the way in which we approach refilling our fuel tanks. We are all inured to the fact that if we own an...
by Phil Jackson | Sep 22, 2021
Encouraging article in in the New York Times this month, discussing how the automotive industry is moving toward a new definition of what connotes luxury. With a throwback lead-in about the Chrysler Cordoba of the 1970s, the story talks about how using materials which...
