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Ford – Stern stuff

Ford moves deeper into services.   Ford continues to demonstrate its understanding of the opportunity that it needs to address with the migration of its business model to subscription and...

Palantir & Lucid – Knife edge

Palantir Q2 23 – Valuation knife edge. Palantir met its numbers but a misunderstanding around revenue guidance for 2023 caused the shares to collapse by 12% before recovering in an...

Google Automotive – Out of GAS?

Nanny regulator comes to the rescue. It is no coincidence that it is the German regulatory authority that is taking issue with Google’s automotive business model as it is German...

Mercedes & ChatGPT – CarGPT

AI needs to reside in the vehicle to work well. Mercedes is exploring enabling ChatGPT in the vehicle but I think it should be looking at implementing it directly in...

Autonomous Autos – Still no cigar

Edge cases highlight the ongoing problem. While the world is driving itself into a frenzy over the latest iteration of AI, the older version (over which everyone went crazy in...

Technology Newsround – Zoom, Cars & AR

Zoom – Hybrid work. Zoom reported good results as pandemic customers are sticking with the service which allowed the company to raise its estimates resulting in a valuation that is...

Automotive ecosystems – All in pain.

Cariad – execution or strategy? Cariad has reshuffled its executive team again in an attempt to get its vehicle software program back on track, but the risk remains that the...

Palantir Q1 23 & Lucid Q1 23 – Moody market.

Palantir and Lucid together demonstrate the mood of the market. Palantir Q1 2023 – Generative AI use case. Palantir reported an excellent set of results reinforcing the view that it...

Tesla Q1 23 – Normalisation.

A promise that will never come true. The promise of fantastically profitable robotaxis will never come true meaning that lower margins as Tesla falls into line with the rest of...

GM – The Fourth Estate

GM’s biggest problem is the media. GMs decision to end support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto has sparked a negative reaction from the Apple-loving technology press that seems to...