This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for May 11, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Following the recent trade deal between Canada and China, several Chinese automakers have now begun shipping electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles to Canada. In exchange for China dropping tariffs on some Canadian agricultural products, Canada slashed tariffs on Chinese EVs from 100% to just 6.1%. Only 49,000 vehicles a year will be allowed to

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for May 1, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. For drivers who don't currently own an electric vehicle, one of the biggest concerns they have about buying one, besides the range, is how long the battery will last. After two decades of using smartphones and other devices, many of us have become accustomed to batteries just not holding up and having to at least replace the battery, if not the

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for April 21, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Waymo is currently in the final stages of validating the newest version 6 of its automated driving system. This testing is occurring across a range of cities in the U.S., including San Francisco, Denver, and Detroit, among others. Most of the testing is occurring on the Zeekr-built Ojai robotaxi, although Waymo is also using the Hyundai Ioniq

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for April 21, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. As legacy automakers have struggled to implement software-defined vehicles or SDVs over the past five or six years, one of the biggest obstacles to success is having the right engineering processes and procedures in place to ease integration and allow deployment across many vehicles. Automakers and suppliers have been putting code into vehic

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for April 20, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Over the past decade, automakers have gradually culled cars from their lineups, particularly in North America. The only vehicle sold by Ford that isn't a crossover, SUV, or truck is the Mustang. Stellantis has only the Dodge Charger and some Alfa Romeos and Fiats. GM has the Corvette and Cadillac CT5. The Japanese and Korean brands have cut

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for April 17, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. The Stellantis assembly plant in Brampton, Ontario, near Toronto, hasn't produced a vehicle since the end of 2023, when production of the Chrysler 300 and the Dodge Charger and Challenger ended. As part of its most recent contract with Unifor, the union that represents Canadian auto workers, Stellantis had planned to retool the factory to pr

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for April 16, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Ford is reorganizing again, and Doug Field, chief EV, digital, and design officer, is leaving, nearly five years after rejoining the company. Ford is creating a new product creation and industrialization organization that will incorporate much of what was previously Field's organization, including the electric vehicle, digital, and design ef

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for April 15, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Barely a week after Volkswagen announced that it would end production of the ID4 electric crossover in Tennessee, it has unveiled a heavily revamped version of the ID3 in Europe. The ID3 and ID4, along with several other VW EVs, all use the same MEB architecture. The only real difference between these two models is that the ID3 is a Golf-siz

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for April 14, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Starting a car company and ramping it up to volume is very hard and very expensive. Most of the companies that have tried have ultimately run out of money. However, two of the most interesting companies in the electric vehicle space have both just raised a significant amount of new capital as they prepare to launch critical new models. Mor

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for April 13, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Ever since I first drove a Cadillac CT6 with GM's hands-free Super Cruise driver assist back in 2017, I've had a skeptical view of the concept. While hands-free, eyes-on systems from many manufacturers do reduce some traditional driver workloads, they have always introduced new cognitive workloads due to the need to supervise the technology.

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for April 10, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. Everyone who drives, especially in regions that are subject to winter weather, is familiar with the horror of potholes. Besides sending shockwaves through a vehicle, potholes can cause expensive damage to tires, wheels, and suspension components if drivers are unable to avoid them. If drivers do see the potholes and attempt evasive maneuvers

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for April 9, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry. As the market for electric vehicles in North America continues to face struggles, two automakers are moving in opposite directions. Kia held its 2026 investor day in Seoul, where CEO Ho Sung Song laid out the brand's product plans for the next five years. Among those plans is the expansion of its lineup of EVs from 11 to 14 models by 2030. T