Energy Futures

The challenge of "green" is aggregating small amounts of energy – ultimately days of sunlight per surface [1] – into amounts usea...

What’s With the Higher New Vehicle MSRPs?

Ruggles – AFN – Dec 2013 The price of new vehicles has been rising at a steady rate despite record auto manufacturer profits.  This has bee...

NADA White Paper on Incentives

I found the NADA White Paper on Used Vehicle Depreciation (pdf) interesting. Key sections are: Why we’ve seen so much volatility in deprec...

“Buy a Car, Get a Check” and the recent NADA White Paper on Incentives

ruggles: the following is a collection of notes and has not a published column. NADA recently published a long awaited white paper on incent...

The Best Selling Vehicles by State

David Ruggles I found this chart from Dealer Communications quite interesting. Business Insider notes the following on the topic: The auto ...

Some great concepts from Mitsubishi: video

Mitsubishi showed off some great concept cars at the Tokyo Motor Show 2013. MITSUBISHI Concept XR PHEV MITSUBISHI Concept AR MITSUBISHI Conc...

Classic car fan gets a surprise

A classic car fan received a grand surprise. Kevin Matthews won their "if you had to pick one...." competition and Royal Mail lit...

More QNX-powered cars and infotainment systems from 2011 CES

The second installment in our CES Cars of Fame series . Today, we look at several systems from the 2011 CES event, starting with this week...

Telematics China — closing out the year with a get-together in Shanghai

Guest post by Peter McCarthy of the QNX global partnerships team Peter McCarthy Is it November already? Time flies when you’re busy. And on ...

Selling your car with confidence

Most people thinking of selling their car are increasingly going on to the net to do so. The most popular online car selling site has got t...

Jaguar unveils the F-TYPE Coupé at the LA Auto Show

The F-TYPE Coupé made its global debut on 19 November in Los Angeles. The all-aluminium F-TYPE Coupé is available in three versions: F-TYPE ...

Why Pay for Science?

Mike Smitka In my Industrial Organization class we chatted about the logic of funding basic science in a world of which the US is an ever-sm...

The first-ever QNX technology concept car to hit CES

Paul Leroux I bet you thought it was the Porsche . Or perhaps even the Bentley . But no, the first QNX-powered technology concept car to app...

CES Cars of Fame

It’s that time of year again — and we’re not just talking about turkeys and Christmas trees. CES 2014 is right around the corner and QNX Sof...

Riding with the stars

Wonder what Malaysian actress Maya Karin, actor and singer Shaheizy Sam, DJ Yoon, Hong Kong heartthrob Him Law, and Bii, the Taiwanese sensa...

Top 10 lessons learned from more than a decade in automotive

Guest post by John Wall, vice president of QNX engineering and services Ten years ago, software accounted for about 20 to 30 percent of the ...

RealVNC, QNX team up for mobile-to-vehicle connectivity

Paul Leroux This just in: QNX and RealVNC have announced that they are collaborating to bring RealVNC’s implementation of the MirrorLink sm...

Toyota at the 2013 SEMA show

The Toyota Scion FR-S, a.k.a the GT86, has been named the Hottest Sport Compact at the 2013 SEMA show in Las Vegas. This is the second year ...

Audi's new all-wheel-drive quattro technology in ad

See the new Audi all-wheel-drive system in action in their "Land of quattro" TV advert set to air tomorrow. According to Audi, the...

BK + Five Years

Automotive News has a retrospective with brief quotes from various participants. Let me briefly mention three that I found thoughtful despi...

Data update: November 2013

Here are assorted data for your perusal – unfortunately due to the government shutdown data releases are delayed or (for certain data) a mon...

What's the word on HTML5?

Ten videos on HTML5 in the car. Actually, there are only nine — but I'm getting ahead of myself. Paul Leroux Has it been two years alrea...

What happens when autonomous becomes ubiquitous?

Seventeen ways in which the self-driving car will transform how we live. Let’s speculate that at least 25% of cars on the road are autonomou...