COVID-Era Lessons: What Carmakers Should Have Learned From COVID to Prepare for a Potential Hantavirus Crisis
Hantavirus is not COVID, but the underlying lesson remains unchanged: systems optimized exclusively for efficiency become fragile under stress.
The automotive industry spent decades mastering optimization, and in fact has had to continue optimizing in the face of Chinese competition built on lean cost structures.
In the tragic event of another pandemic, the industry can only hope it did not forget to apply the lessons of the previous one in its haste to get “back to normal”.
The Brand Every Racing Team Should Aspire to Be Is…
Racing teams believe they exist to win races.
Manufacturers believe they exist to market cars.
Both are operating within a constrained, isolated view of what motorsport actually enables, because the industry continues to treat racing as either a competitive exercise or a marketing expense, when in reality it can function as something potentially far more valuable: the foundation of an entirely new business.
The existence of Polestar should force a reassessment of these assumptions. Indeed, Polestar did not begin as a design studio, a product roadmap, or a strategic pivot into electrification.
It began, very simply, as a racing team.
Motorsport is not a money sink, but it is often misused capital.
It can create value, but not everyone sees just how far that value creation can be pushed quite like the minds behind Polestar.
Porsche Could Become a Space Company? That, And More Predictions For When Cars Have Turned Into Roombas
The car as we know it, a chassis and four wheels, with a human controlling it, helped construct a beautiful, dangerous, and ultimately doomed, era of history.
The future belongs to the Roomba, those silent, tireless, and invisible fleets that will give us back our time, our safety, and ironically, our autonomy.
The car is dead, long live the car.
The “Un-EV”: Rethinking What an Electric Sports Car Should Be
Ferrari and Jaguar are the next big players in 2026 shooting their shot.
Maybe either or both of them will be the ones to finally crack the code for the “un-EV”: a high-performance electric car that rejects the worst assumptions of current EV design, embraces tactile and emotional coherence, and uses electric architecture to create something that could never have existed before.
These cars are still a mystery because both manufacturers know they have to get everything right, and if they end up looking and driving nothing like a “regular” EV, the only surprise may be that it took so long to get to that point.