Hi friends and new readers, welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B.
In last week’s newsletter, I described some of the changes coming to TechCrunch’s transportation coverage, including “market maps.” These articles, which will always run in Extra Crunch, focus on a particular slice of the transportation industry, along with other mobility-related analysis.
The first of these took a deep dive into the solid state battery industry. As Mark Harris reported: “For the last decade, developers of solid state battery systems have promised products that are vastly safer, lighter and more powerful. Those promises largely evaporated into the ether leaving behind a vapor stream of disappointing products, failed startups and retreating release dates.”
Former Aston Martin designer Henrik Fisker would not be drawn on the car's body shape but promised something radical. "The only thing that makes it a car is that it has four wheels and needs to be certified as a car," he said.
EVs to be assembled like smartphones: Hon Hai
MULTI-USE: The arrangement of seats in future vehicles would be different, allowing passengers to do everything they do at home, the CEO of the firm’s EV platform said
Staff writer, with CNA
Electric vehicles (EVs) developed on a Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) platform would be built like “a smartphone on a different platform,” Jack Cheng (鄭顯聰), chief executive officer of the Hon Hai-initiated MIH Open Platform Alliance, said on Saturday.
It would be the ultimate goal to make vehicles built on the platform an extension of the driver’s home, he said during an online presentation.
Will Fisker finally get off the ground this time?
Embattled car designer Henrik Fisker has been behind the pen that designed some of the most beautiful vehicles on the planet, including the BMW Z8 and the Aston Martin V8 Vantage. Currently, his company is working on the Fisker Ocean, but late last year, a new vehicle was teased. While we haven t heard anything more on this four-door coupe, Fisker is now teasing another new vehicle. But the big news is that the vehicle will be jointly developed with Foxconn, the people who manufacture the Apple iPhone. The Taiwanese giant will help with Fisker s goal of producing this unknown new vehicle, projecting annual volumes of more than 250,000 units.
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