Howes: In New Auto Ecosystem, Winning Requires Change
The emerging "automotive ecosystem" of the future may not be particularly kind to Detroit.
Not because the likes of this town's automakers aren't changing. But because they're not changing fast enough to blunt the competitive onslaught from high-tech Silicon Valley heavyweights loaded with cash and a knack for delivering high returns on invested capital, says a new report from Alix Partners, a global consultancy.
Big Oil Just Woke Up to Threat of Rising Electric Car Demand
The world's biggest oil producers are starting to take electric vehicles seriously as a long-term threat.
OPEC quintupled its forecast for sales of plug-in EVs, and oil producers from Exxon Mobil Corp. to BP Plc also revised up their outlooks in the past year, according to a study by Bloomberg New Energy Finance released on Friday. The London-based researcher expects those cars to reduce oil demand 8 million barrels by 2040, more than the current combined production of Iran and Iraq.
What Marijuana Legalization Did to Car Accident Rates
Last week, a pair of studies came to seemingly opposite conclusions on whether rising marijuana use is causing an increase in car crashes in states that have legalized the drug.
The first, conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, analyzed insurance claims for vehicle collisions filed between January 2012 and October 2016. The IIHS researchers compared claims in states that had recently legalized marijuana (Colorado, Washington and Oregon) with claims in similar neighboring states that hadn't.
Essentials of Fleet Management Seminar
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Donlen Integrates GM OnStar Data with DriverPoint Telematics to Improve USIC Fleet Telematics Program
Donlen announces that their DriverPoint Telematics solution is now integrated with OnStar directly. Donlen is the first fleet management company to offer this integrated solution to customers to improve program efficiency.
With the integration, the DriverPoint system will receive driver behavior and location information as well as vehicle diagnostics data directly from the vehicle, allowing fleet professionals to take full advantage of DriverPoint and its integration within our FleetWeb platform without the need for an OBD-II device.
