Vehicle Engineering & Lifecycle Design

How increasing vehicle weight damages roads, parking, and urban infrastructure, with electric vehicles compounding the issue.

How the pursuit of safety through vehicle size has created incompatibility and increased risks for others.

An exploration of how regulatory incentives and engineering trade-offs have driven the escalation of vehicle size and mass, with profound implications for safety, infrastructure, and sustainability.

How CAFE standards and policy loopholes created incentives for larger, heavier vehicles.

Analyzing the systemic fragility created by technological monocultures, innovation debt, and path dependence, with lessons for the electric vehicle transition.

Exploring the invisible frameworks of patents, standards, and supply chains that determine which automotive technologies succeed, using examples like the ICE ecosystem and charging standards.

An exploration of how superior automotive technologies fail in the marketplace due to ecosystem factors, path dependence, and industrial power structures, using examples like the rotary engine and EV1.

Examining how technically superior automotive technologies like the Wankel rotary engine and EV1 failed due to ecosystem factors beyond engineering excellence.

Discover the unconventional story of Morgan cars, from their racing dominance that led to a ban, to their perfectly imperfect design philosophy that has endured for over a century.

The 'car of the future' arrived in 1934—and flopped spectacularly. Here's why the shapes on our roads are really a mirror of our collective dreams, crises, and anxieties.