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 | 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 | 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...