Car ownership has already passed its peak, and in the year 2030, just nine years from now, around 10% of us may have given up our cars altogether… So it’s not the future of flying cars we’d all hoped for yet, but it’s certainly a more sustainable one. It will be the world’s largest cities […]
To many people from the outside, electrical harness and wiring systems in vehicles, appliances and industrial equipment all look the same – wires, connectors and various fixtures bolted to each other. Those in the industry know better. It is a complicated set of rules and design patterns that have been developed over several decades and […]
You can find a publication called “Electric Vehicles” by Charles W Marshall on the internet if you do a search. It describes electric vehicle technologies such as e-motors, drive trains, and batteries. Almost everything you need to know about the operation and production of such vehicles. The year of publication may come as a surprise […]
Recently we have seen the effects of cyber-attack of national infrastructure from hostile governments and terrorists. Clearly, digital warfare is the preferred modality for future conflict, it can be clandestine and does not require feet-on-the ground personnel to execute. It was as early as 2010 when Koscher et al (K. Koscher, et al. Experimental security […]
Recently I was tasked with investigating some of the reasons the uptake of Electric Vehicles was seemingly quite slow despite compelling legislation and incentives in the UK. I suspect a lot of it revolves around uncertainly of range and battery condition in vehicles of an age ready to be sold or traded in. What do […]
Owing to government legislation putting pressure on diesel internal combustion engines, combustion engines in general and the introduction of ultra-low emission zones, the electric car is starting to become the compelling proposition in many people’s eyes. Media coverage of the latest electric offerings certainly excite the general public and raise the profile of the tantalising […]
Have you recently sat back and imagined what the driving experience will be like in the near future when self-driving becomes commonplace? The introduction of new technologies and unparalleled levels of automation really allow for creative automotive companies to totally change the paradigm of the transport experience! It will be interesting to see Ford Motor Company […]
Top 10 Reasons you should be using costCompare! Typically, organisations require third party suppliers to provide some or all their electrical harnesses. Smaller organisations rely totally on the suppliers quote for the job to provide their cost baseline, others may shop around for prices and the most sophisticated, run internal programmes to calculate the expected […]
While most of us may have experienced a slow-down during the pandemic, the automotive industry did not press the brakes on their technological developments and many manufacturers are making 2021 the year to debut their all-electric offerings. In this article we introduce to you some of the most interesting, and relatively affordable (mostly!), electric vehicles […]
