As renewables flourish and grids tighten, EVs are becoming flexible energy assets. Winning automakers won’t just build electric cars. They’ll master standards, regulation, and orchestration, while generating real revenue and cost savings.

A Chinese idiom says 另辟蹊径 (lìng pì xī jìng), indicating the idea of opening up a different path, finding an alternative route, or creating one's own path.

Long Beach, California is a long way from Dearborn, and perhaps that is precisely the point. After a recent tour of Ford's new EV Development Center (EVDC), it is hard to walk away with any other conclusion.

A few years ago, the question product cyber teams asked was simply: “What should we actually deploy to meet R155 expectations?” Today, the question has changed; and that shift matters.

The Automotive Ethernet Congress 2026 marked a pivotal moment for the automotive industry. What once felt like gradual progress in in-vehicle communication is now driving major changes in vehicle architecture, security, and scalability for the software-defined era.

The Commercial Vehicle Show 2026, held from 21–23 April at the NEC Birmingham, is the UK’s leading event for road freight, logistics, and commercial mobility, gathering over 300 exhibitors and more than 15,000 industry professionals across the transport ecosystem.

The Software‑Defined Vehicle Ecosystem Players Guide gives automotive leaders the strategic clarity to navigate SDV complexity, understand shifting ecosystem power, and make informed platform and partnership choices.

The Profitability Path of Automotive AI Webinar. Where experts from across the ecosystem such as cloud providers, AI specialists, and automotive strategists, came together to tackle a problem that many OEMs are quietly struggling with: turning AI innovation into sustainable profit.

A complimentary report for SBD Automotive subscribers, the Q1 Quarterly Wrap-up helps you quickly catch-up on the automotive AI, CASES & SDV trends from the past few months, providing insights from our analysts on the impact of major announcements.

Automotive computing is consolidating and accelerating. Over two days in Dearborn, the conversation moved from software‑defined vehicles (SDVs) to AI‑defined vehicles (AIDVs), with speakers aligning on three aspects: consolidating compute, shifting intelligence to the edge, and virtualizing development.

The shift to SDV has redefined how OEMs compete, making software strategy central to long-term value creation.

MWC Barcelona has historically been viewed as a telecom-led event, but in 2026 it became clear that connectivity is no longer the headline story. Instead, the industry is entering what the GSMA described as the “IQ Era”: a phase where networks, devices, and cloud infrastructure evolve into intelligence platforms, rather than simply pipes for data. With 105,000+ attendees and over 2,900 exhibitors from 207 countries, MWC 2026 reinforced its role as the global benchmark for wha

If there’s one thing that became clear the moment I opened the day in Frankfurt, it’s this: the automotive industry is no longer just building cars, it’s building software platforms on wheels.

For years, in-car voice assistants were largely transactional. Drivers issued rigid commands (“navigate home”) and the system executed a predefined action.

The current trend for OEMs not to fit a Steering Column Lock or a locking transmission pawl (transmission lock) and instead, rely on the electronic parking brake systems to meet the Anti-Theft Regulations, has led to a spate of low tech, push away thefts, particularly in Italy.

The executive lunch co-sponsored by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), SBD Automotive, and HERE Technologies offered a pulse check on the state of global mobility.

Statistics show that the number of passenger cars stolen continues to be at its highest level since before the pandemic. However, the theft of – and from – vans seems to be forgotten or ignored.

Today, Ford lifted the hood on how its Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) program team has leveraged bounties, vertical integration, and a new approach to vehicle design to achieve unprecedented efficiency in the pursuit of an affordable, mass-market electric vehicle program.

If you’ve followed electric vehicles for any length of time, you’ve probably heard solid-state batteries (SSBs) described as the next big breakthrough.

During my time at a European truck OEM, cybersecurity was always a hot topic. Yet many R&D teams were still unclear about what “doing cybersecurity” actually meant in practice.