Megan Lampinen

The Northern Hemisphere’s actual winter has joined what feels like an electric vehicle (EV) winter for the US auto industry. The EV-market chill has been driven foremost by the rug pull of the US$7,500 federal tax credit on 30 September, more than seven y... See more

The modern vehicle has evolved from a hardware-led machine into a software-first platform, fundamentally changing design and development strategies. Historically, vehicles relied on dozens of distributed electronic control units (ECUs), each managing a sm... See more

The rise of the software-defined vehicle (SDV) and electrification are reshaping how vehicles are developed. System complexity is growing exponentially: some of today’s vehicles feature more than 100 million lines of code, 150 ECUs and 3,000 semiconductor... See more

Steel has served as the backbone of vehicle manufacturing for more than a century, but the shift to new mobility is disrupting the material mix. Over the past few years, aluminium has emerged as the fastest growing automotive material. Its lightweight pro... See more

Jaguar Land Rover restarted car manufacturing in the UK at the beginning of October after a cyber attack caused it to shut down for almost six weeks at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, underlining the importance of cyber security in an increasin... See more