Electric cars were once marketed as ‘women’s cars’. Did this hold back their development over the next century?

An innovation expert looked at decades of car adverts to find out.

Josef Taalbi, Associate Professor, Economic History, Lund University • conversation
March 13, 2025 ~7 min

Remembering the 1932 Ford Hunger March: Detroit park honors labor and environmental history

On March 7, workers at the Ford Rouge River plant marched for better working conditions, sparking America’s labor movement. Almost a century later, a quiet park honors their memory.

Paul Draus, Professor of Sociology; Director, Master of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Michigan-Dearborn • conversation
March 1, 2024 ~8 min


The new technology that is making cars easier for criminals to steal, or crash

The connected vehicles of the future could make our cars and data more vulnerable to theft and malicious attack.

Rachael Medhurst, Course Leader and Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security NCSA, University of South Wales • conversation
Aug. 9, 2023 ~7 min

Car thieves are using increasingly sophisticated methods, and most new vehicles are vulnerable

The new techniques go far beyond hacking your car’s key fob system.

Omair Uthmani, Lecturer in Networking and Security, Glasgow Caledonian University • conversation
June 2, 2023 ~6 min

Britishvolt: more evidence UK is falling far behind in race to capture growing EV market

The UK needs an industrial strategy to counter the rise of EU battery manufacturing.

Phil Tomlinson, Professor of Industrial Strategy, Deputy Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath • conversation
Jan. 19, 2023 ~8 min

What are automotive 'over-the-air' updates? A marketing professor explains

Whether safety-related fixes demand a software upgrade or a trip to the dealership, carmakers must notify the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and all affected drivers

Vivek Astvansh, Professor of Marketing and Data Science, Indiana University • conversation
Aug. 2, 2022 ~4 min

Could steam-powered cars decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere?

This technology, popular when automobiles first caught on, had a short resurgence in the 1970s.

Gary W. Yohe, Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University • conversation
June 13, 2022 ~7 min

A global semiconductor shortage highlights a troubling trend: A small and shrinking number of the world's computer chips are made in the US

The high cost and long lead times for building computer chip factories makes it difficult for the U.S. to reverse the steady decline of its domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity.

Carol Handwerker, Professor of Materials Engineering, Purdue University • conversation
March 9, 2021 ~5 min


Autonomous cars could revolutionise transport for disabled people – if we change the way we design

Driverless cars could revolutionise transport for disabled people – so why aren't more companies including them in the design process?

Paul Herriotts, Professor of Transport Design, Coventry University • conversation
May 20, 2020 ~6 min

Keep on trucking: Trucks must keep moving across Canada-U.S. border amid coronavirus

Canada and the United States have opted to keep its border open to commercial trucking during the coronavirus pandemic. The decision is important to the economies of both countries.

Marta Leardi-Anderson, Executive Director, Cross Border Institute, University of Windsor • conversation
March 22, 2020 ~7 min

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