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Are automakers missing out on the real future market?

Are automakers missing out on the real future market?

243 million cars are circulating in Europe [https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT_EU_Pocketbook_2020_Web_Dec2020.pdf] ; among them, about 15.5 million were newly registered, and among them, only 2.27 million are electric (still a record 2021 number for Evs). With that, my question

Another day, another western brand kicked out of China

Brace yourself for a 2022 year buzzing with western brands getting kicked out of China. If not directly, at least because of an overnight devastating consumer revolt on national social media. I've been explaining since Trump and even more fuelled by Covid-19 that the country was closing down

Is Intel dead? (yes)

Is Intel dead? (yes)

Intel's downfall has been ongoing for decades now. While they barreled out of the seventies to the eighties as a juggernaut weaponizing the emerging desktop computer segment with Microsoft, they entirely missed the mobile market twenty years later. While still pushing for more powerful chips, the industry was

Lab-grown meat arrives in Europe

Lab-grown meat arrives in Europe

About ten years ago, I illustrated how technology and market cycles interacted with each other the first $250,000 lab-grown burger produced after months of work. A few years later, startups like Beyond Meat [https://www.beyondmeat.com/] solved the problem of beef carbon-impact not with protein synthesis but with

Will EU ban bitcoin? (maybe)

Will EU ban bitcoin? (maybe)

Fascinating move from the EU parliament that is trying to set up a regulatory framework for crypto money. The critical piece of legislation would be constraints so that these coins... > ... shall be subject to minimum environmental sustainability standards and set up and maintain a phased rollout plan to ensure

Curbivore, mapping food-delivery innovation

Curbivore, mapping food-delivery innovation

These last years I haven't been shy about my growing disinterest in innovation conferences and tradeshows. That being said, I was a bit titillated by CURBIVORE in Los Angeles, which is about restaurant business model and retail innovation, last-mile delivery, mobility, and civic tech. What I like here

Energy innovation is not dead

Energy innovation is not dead

While China is (for now) winning the tech race on commercial nuclear fusion reactor [https://www.newsweek.com/china-artificial-sun-breaks-record-120-million-farenheit-nuclear-fusion-1666265] s, Europe is still pushing energy innovation on many fronts. One of them is off-shore renewable electricity production. Denmark is, for instance, funding the first artificial island project [https://www.windisland.