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Sidebar: GM Says They’re Serious About Electrification? Prove It.

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments belle isle, belle isle detroit, belle isle grand prix, bud denker, cadillac lyriq, car culture, cars, Electric cars, F-150 Super Duty State of Mind, find new roads, general motors, GM, grand prix, lear, lear corporation, mary barra, michigan accent, range anxiety, rick waggoner, roger penske, sunburn, sunscreen, triple zero, who killed the electric car

GM talks about its commitment to electrification, and then displays a spread of exclusively gas-powered cars at the Belle Isle Grand Prix.

Business & Economics Mobility Energy Automotive

EV Charging Networks: Drive Infrastructure, Not Just Cars

June 8, 2021June 7, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments acquisition, ampacity, battery storage, chevrolet bolt, chevrolet volt, distributed energy resources, distributed generation, electric grid, electric panel, EV chargers at home, EV charging infrastructure, ev charging networks, general motors, GM, grid storage, insourcing, level 1 charger, level 2 charger, level 3 charger, li-ion, lithium-ion battery, load center, outsourcing, photovoltaics, power grid, public ev charger, public ev charging networks, rick waggoner, rooftop solar, utility-scale battery storage, utility-scale solar, v2g, vehicle-to-grid, vehicle-to-grid connectivity, who killed the electric car

A few weeks ago, I had a chat with some folks from A Major Automaker, one of the Big Two-And-A-Half,

Business & Economics Urban Planning Transit infrastructure Infrastructure

Michigan Population Numbers: How Long Before We Just Admit That This Strategy Isn’t Working?

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1837 border war, add lane miles, aging population, big two and a half, chaldeans, chrysler, Congress, congressional seats, fca, fiat chrysler, Ford, ford motor company, funding infrastructure, general motors, GM, Gretchen Whitmer, growth, infrastructure, infrastructure and economic growth, infrastructure investment, japan, level-of-service, matt maddock, mdot, meshawn maddock, michigan, michigan legislature, ohio, population decline, population growth, rail, rail infrastructure, refugees, rightsizing, rightsizing cities, rightsizing infrastructure, shrinking cities, stellantis, tokyo, toledo border war, transit, trucks, trump, US Congress, vmt, vmt reduction, whitmer

The census numbers are in, and we’re unsurprised to learn that population growth is stagnant in parts of the great,

Business & Economics Mobility Tech

Mispricing the Chevrolet Bolt, And Other Strange Corporate Decisions

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments asymmetrical information, batteries, battery technology, Big Two-and-a-Half, Bolt EUV, chevrolet bolt, chevrolet EUV, chevrolet volt, chevy bolt, chevy volt, economics, electric car, Electric cars, electric vehicles, EUV, EV charging infrastructure, F-150, F-150 Super Duty, F-150 Super Duty State of Mind, Ford, general motors, GM bolt, GM volt, LG chem, lithium-ion battery, market failure, market information, pareto optimality, talk to the invisible hand, who killed the electric car

The Chevrolet Bolt originally sold poorly. It’s now selling well, but at an average of a 30% discount off its full MSRP. Maybe that suggests it wasn’t priced right to begin with.

Mobility Energy

The “Mobility” Council’s Report: Buy A Car, Peasants

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alisyn malek, big gretch, bob babik, borgwarner, canals, cavnue, CFME, cory connolly, council on future mobility and electrification, electrification, electrified vehicles, emily frascaroli, energy innovation business council, Ford, ford motor company, general motors, google, governor whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, international trade, leland stanford, liberapay, london crossrail, luo yang, mark de la vergne, mdot, MEDC, mobility initiatives, mongol invasion of japan, monumental infrastructure, moon landing, moon landing hoax, NASA, panama canal, patreon, paul ajegba, sidewalk infrastructure partners, sidewalk labs, siege of constantinople, siege of tyre, supercruise, trade, transcontinental railroad, tremaine phillips, trevor pawl, tupac shakur, wsp

The Michigan Council on Future Mobility and Electrification said that Google’s Cavnue project is “one of the most ambitious mobility initiatives in history.” We looked through the history books and picked our top four competitors.

Driven: The Race To Create the Autonomous Car, by Alex Davies

January 20, 2021January 21, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alex davies, anthony levandowski, argo, argo AI, auto industry, automotive industry, automotive sector, autonomous cars, autonomous vehicles, AV's, AVs, big tech, connected vehicles, Cruise, cruise automation, DARPA, driven, driven the race to create an autonomous car, driven the race to create an autonomous car alex davies, Ford, Ford Corktown, ford motor company, general motors, GM, infrastructure, mobility, mountain view, nevada, new mobility, palo alto, tech, tech bros, the race to create an autonomous car, transportation, william mitchell

Weekend Read. This book, Driven: The Race To Create the Autonomous Car, is worth reading for anyone who is interested

Policy Public transit Transit infrastructure

Gretchen Whitmer: When We Say “Mobility,” We Really Mean “Cars”

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cars, chrysler, decarbonization, fca, Ford, general motors, GM, governor whitmer, Gretchen Whitmer, infrastructure, infrastructure funding, market transformation, michigan, mobility, policy, transit, transit infrastructure, transportation, whitmer

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Council on Future Mobility is not about mobility, it’s about cars. That’s got to change if we’re serious about decarbonizing transportation– or building an equitable future of any kind.

Business & Economics

How Losers Still Get Paid: Why Bankruptcy Can’t Rein In Executive Compensation

July 20, 2020July 21, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bankruptcy, coronavirus, corporate debt, corporate finance, corporate subsidies, corporations, covid, debt, equity, executive, executive compensation, finance, Ford, general motors, Hertz, JC Penney, litigation, Neiman Marcus, Pacific Gas & Electric, private equity, reaganomics, retail, retail apocalypse, shareholder value, shareholders, spending a lite fitty, stock market, stock market crash, stocks, stonks, tax, tax policy, Whiting Petroleum

IF YOU’RE ONE OF THE BILLIONS OF ONLOOKERS OBSERVING THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, you might be wondering: what’s

Urban Planning Transit infrastructure

Autonomous Vehicles And The City Of To-Morrow

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments autonomous vehicles, AVs, Cruise, cruise automation, dedicated short range communications, DSCR, Ford, general motors, intelligent transportation systems, mobility, public transit, sustainable mobility, Tesla, transit, transportation, urban mobility, Waymo

No, it’s not a Potemkin Village in which erstwhile Governor Rick Snyder staged his great Austerity March for propaganda films.

Urban Planning Finance Public transit

Bad Ideas And Bad Companies Do Not Need Your Defense

August 23, 2019August 23, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments aaata, aecom, auto bailout, auto industry, autonomous vehicles, AVs, big three, chrysler, corporate debt, cruise automation, electric vehicles, electrification, finance, Ford, general motors, hntb, infrastructure, lyft, pedestrian safety, stock market, Tesla, trucks

I was out for happy hour the other night with a transportation group. In spite of its legendarily bad public