This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for February 24, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 led to substantial changes for federal tax incentives toward electric vehicle purchases in the U.S. The previous system that allowed every automaker to be eligible for tax credits of up to $7,500 on the first 200,000 EVs sold was scrapped. The program allowed the same credits, with no sa

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for February 23, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Late last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Trump did not have the authority to impose import tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Trump had used this law as justification to declare wide-ranging tariffs on almost all imported products and materials coming into the U.S. over the past year. W

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 22, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   The growth rate of electric vehicle adoption may have plateaued in the U.S. in 2025, but public charging infrastructure is still expanding at a prodigious rate even into 2026. The Alternative Fuels Data Center from the U.S. Department of Energy provides a rich source of information on all forms of transportation energy providers beyond tr

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 20, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Tariffs are a tax on the consumers who buy products, no matter how much some politicians try to deny it. Tariffs aren't paid by the country exporting a product; they are paid by whoever imports the product and are generally passed along to those who ultimately buy the product. We've seen this over the past year as new vehicle affordabilit

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 16, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   As expected, the Trump administration's policies of the past year, including applying massive tariffs on almost all of the U.S. major trading partners and rolling back any and all environmental policies, are starting to have an impact. Ultimately, these policies are going to isolate the U.S. economy from the rest of the world, and if Amer

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 14, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Telemetry has published its first automated driving systems (or ADS) scorecard report. This report evaluates and ranks the leading companies developing Level 4 ADS for robotaxis, roboshuttles, and middle-mile and long-haul deliveries based on criteria such as vision, go-to-market strategy, production strategy, technology, safety strategy,

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 13, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Yesterday in Detroit, General Motors CEO and Chair Mary Barra took part in what has become something of an annual tradition, a fireside chat with the president of the Automotive Press Association, who this year is Kalea Hall from Thomson Reuters. This year, the event moved from its usual December timing to early January to coincide with t

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  January 7, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   While there are a lot fewer automakers officially participating in CES 2026 than in the past decade, that doesn't mean there isn't still an auto industry presence, especially when it comes to sensors. There are multiple lidar vendors showing off their wares in Las Vegas this week, including Hesai, Innoviz, and Microvision. Hesai is by far

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for January 6, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   During a keynote presentation at CES 2026, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang again focused on his company's efforts around artificial intelligence, including the announcement of a next-generation Rubin GPU chip. But a significant portion of the event was dedicated to automated driving. This included a discussion of how Nvidia has built t

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  January 5, 2026, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.  Kodiak AI is one of two companies currently operating driverless tractor-trailers in the U.S., with the other being Aurora. Last May, Aurora launched driverless over-the-road long-haul freight operations in Texas. While Kodiak and several other companies are also testing automated trucks across the American south, Kodiak was the first to a

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  December 22, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Automated vehicles have a lot of theoretical advantages over human drivers. They don't get drunk or drowsy or distracted. They can, in theory, see obstacles sooner than humans and in conditions where humans might not be able to see. They should be able to drive closer together without colliding. All of these factors should eventually le

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for December 17, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   In March 2023, General Motors upset a lot of Apple iPhone users when it announced that it would not include support for smartphone projection, including CarPlay, on its new electric vehicles. These vehicles all use Android Automotive with Google Automotive Services for their infotainment. This allows drivers to use Google Maps and Assist

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  December 16, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   In the late 2010s, as the automated driving startup segment was booming, so too were related businesses like lidar. At one stage, there were upwards of 100 lidar startups vying to help enable automated vehicles, and one of the most promising of the lot was Luminar. However, just as most of the companies developing automated driving syst

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for December 15, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Ford announced another major restructuring of its electrification plans that will include $14 billion in non-cash charges and $5.5 billion in cash charges this quarter. The changes include the cancellation of an electric truck that was to have been produced at the new BlueOval City factory in Tennessee, ending production of the current F

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for December 11, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   At its first-ever AI and Autonomy day in Palo Alto, Rivian announced that it will be launching major updates beginning with its upcoming R2 midsize electric SUV that aim to bring automated driving to the platform. Rivian launched a major update to its existing R1 models just over 18 months ago that adopted a new zonal electronic architec

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for December 10, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Nissan has announced that it is the first automaker to partner with Wayve, a UK-based developer of software for assisted and automated driving systems. Wayve was one of the first companies to rely on an entirely artificial intelligence-based software stack. In addition to being AI-based, the Wayve system doesn't use any HD maps and doesn

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for December 9, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Today, Ford and Renault Group announced a new alliance to develop electric passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles. The initial goal is two new Ford-branded electric cars using the platform from Renault's Ampere unit. Ampere was established as a business unit to focus on developing and manufacturing software-defined EV platforms. The a

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  December 8, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Hybrids have never been a significant part of Nissan's overall powertrain strategy, with the automaker focusing more on battery electrics with the launch of the original Leaf in late 2010. But even with the initial success of the Leaf, Nissan did little to expand its EV lineup in the 2010s. Meanwhile, Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai Motor Gro

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for  December 1, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   Much has changed at Stellantis in the past 12 months. Exactly one year ago, Carlos Tavares was ousted as CEO at the automaker that he formed from the 2021 merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA. Over the preceding four years, over 50,000 jobs were eliminated at the company, many of them in North America, where spending was being sla

This is the Telemetry Transportation Daily for November 25, 2025, and I'm Sam Abuelsamid, Vice President of Market Research for Telemetry.   When BMW launched the i3 Rex back in 2013, it was just the second extended range electric vehicle or EREV produced following the Fisker Karma. EREVs differ from plug-in hybrids in that the torque output of the engine only drives a generator to charge the battery and has no direct path to drive the wheels. The vehicle is exclusively drive