Author: pflienert
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Future transport? The sky’s the limit
Elon Musk’s recent remarks to Don Lemon about future Tesla products was intriguing in several respects, not the least of which were Musk’s teasing hints about the next-gen Roadster (“not really a car”) and how it would marry technologies from Tesla and SpaceX. This was just a day or two after I stumbled across a post…
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Felixwire: Sovereign Funds Bet on Sustainable Mobility
My Felixwire database sheds some light on investments in the sustainable transportation ecosystem by some of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. There are a few surprises. China Investment Corp is the world’s largest sovereign fund, with $1.35 trillion in assets under management, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute (SWFI). But it has just…
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Another affordable Tesla: Late again?
I remember the last time Elon Musk promised a low-priced Tesla. It was 2014 and the promise involved a compact electric sedan dubbed Model 3 that would be priced from $35,000 before tax incentives. If you’ve been reading about the next “affordable” Tesla — the so-called Project Redwood vehicle that’s targeted for a $25,000 sticker…
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Felixwire: E-scooter mania!
I love big data — especially all the data stored in Felixwire. Data can tell a colorful, and sometimes eye-opening, story. Case in point: Felixwire’s data trove on electric two-wheelers. Felix Strategy’s proprietary database is now tracking more than 750 electric two-wheeler startups, sorted in a number of categories, including e-scooters, e-bikes and e-motorcycles; e-cargo…
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CES 2024: Mobility mind candy for tech geeks
As part of my post-pandemic reboot, I figured I might never set foot in another auto show — except perhaps for CES. If only the Las Vegas Strip weren’t so daunting. After reading more than a dozen reviews of CES 2024, I’m actually sorry I neglected to attend this year’s event in Las Vegas. It’s…
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Felixwire: Inside the EV charging sector
My Felixwire database is currently tracking nearly 900 electric vehicle charging companies around the globe. So what’s going on below the surface? Let’s take a deeper dive. Felixwire, which was born in 2010, is a proprietary database of more than 7,000 companies in the sustainable transportation ecosystem. I use it to analyze patterns and trends in…
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The Electric Doorstop
People occasionally ask me how long I’ve been hanging around electric cars. The followup question usually is, “What’s the first electric car you ever drove?” The answers: Since before you were born (in most cases). And the CitiCar. That would be around 1975, not long after a Florida startup, Sebring-Vanguard, started producing a handful of…
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New year, new opportunity
A new year brings new opportunities. So let me tell you about my new venture: Felix Strategy, an advisory practice focused on product, technology and investment trends driving the sustainable transportation ecosystem. How do I identify, research and analyze those trends? With the help of Felixwire, my proprietary database of 7,000+ companies that populate that…
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