All Hail the Software Defined Vehicle; Supply-Chain Crisis Worsens in September

Wards Intelligence Update

Canada LV Sales Drop 15.1% in September

September marked a full quarter of losses for Canada light-vehicle sales.

Lidar Hits the Road Part 2: Early OEM and Tier 1 Adopters of Automotive Lidar

Developers and investors are pumping billions of dollars into lidar technology for the chance to score big in this nascent...

All Hail the Software Defined Vehicle

Old-school gearheads who love talking about high-performance tires, fuel injectors and transmissions may cringe at the term, but there’s no...

Supply-Chain Crisis Worsens and U.S. Light-Vehicle Inventory Falls Again in September

Based on the current outlooks for production and sales, inventory should break an 8-month downward slide and turn up in...

ChargePoint’s Romano: Vehicle and Charging Incentives Needed; Less Fast-Charge Hype

The longtime CEO of the U.S.’s largest charging network says many OEMs are content to follow Tesla’s lead and talk...

Software Defined Vehicles: A Fierce Shift from Hardware to Software Architectures

Across the automotive supply chain, software-defined vehicles appear to be following a clear path to future-proof architectures. Software architectures and...

U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Bottom-Out Again in September; Third-Quarter Records Weak 13.3-Million Annualized Rate

In a market with enough underlying demand to support 12-month volume of 17 million units or more, a dearth of...

World Sales Dropped 10.9% in August

North America (-15.8%), Europe (-15.2%) and Asia Pacific (-11.8%) reported losses in vehicle sales for August.