The automotive industry is on the brink of a massive transformation as autonomous vehicles (AVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) are poised to experience widespread growth and adoption over the next several years. While these new technologies hold tremendous potential in reducing carbon emissions, improving safety, enhancing mobility, and increasing efficiency,…Read More
John Paul MacDuffie, Director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation at the Mack Institute, was featured in the Wall Street Journal alongside other experts discussing innovations in green technology. MacDuffie weighed in on the development of more efficient EV batteries, which could speed along the adoption of electric…Read More
Data strategy for the future of mobility may be one of the greatest opportunities for firms to capture value from their innovation investments in connected vehicles. At the same time, adoption of data-first strategy presents potential pitfalls for data usage.…Read More
Listen to John Paul MacDuffie, Director of our Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation in conversation with Maniv Mobility principal Meir Dardashti on vehicle electrification and how traditional OEMs can catch up to Tesla.…Read More
John Paul MacDuffie was quoted in a New York Times in a story about Rivian, an electric truck manufacturers who shook the stock market after releasing their first product: a fleet of only 150 pickup trucks, launched after ten years of research and development.…Read More
We’re proud to announce the publication of a new white paper written by John Paul MacDuffie, Director of the Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation, and published by investment firm Engine No. 1. Entitled “Mobility Becomes Electric: The Role of Automotive OEMs in Speeding the Battery Electric Vehicle Future,” the…Read More
Discussing the “once in a century” transformation of the auto industry, including electric and autonomous vehicles, data and AI, and global supply chain issues…Read More
The price of batteries is a significant predictor of whether electric vehicles will gain mass market acceptance in the near future. …Read More
In his Forbes column debut, PVMI Director John Paul MacDuffie examines Apple’s moves in vehicle development, Tesla’s business model, the dynamics between tech and automotive companies, and more.…Read More
2016 turned out to be a mixed bag for vehicle innovations, as we learned through our 2016 forecasting tournament. The 2017-2018 Challenge launches July 14.…Read More
How soon will autonomous vehicles transform how humans get around? Join our newly expanded Forecasting Challenge to help us predict the future of mobility.…Read More
Eric Orts and John Paul MacDuffie discussed the likely outcomes from Volkswagen’s settlement with the EPA.…Read More
One key factor affecting consumer acceptance of electric vehicles is the price and performance of batteries, so the Electric Vehicle Forecasting Challenge includes a question about the cost per kilowatt-hour (KwH) in 2016.…Read More
Are we on the cusp of an electric vehicle “tipping point”? Join the Electric Vehicle Forecasting Challenge to help us find out.…Read More
The Mack Institute’s Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation director John Paul MacDuffie will join a panel about the recent Volkswagen emissions scandal on Thursday, January 21.…Read More
Wharton management professor and PVMI director John Paul MacDuffie analyzes the fallout after automotive giant Volkswagen admitted to cheating on EPA admissions tests.…Read More
Analyzing the comprehensive 35-year patent data set associated with the Detroit auto cluster we confirm that innovation in clusters can increase in spite of a long-term decline in manufacturing activity. The “stickiness” of local knowledge is sustained by: (i) increasing technological specialization at the local level and (ii) growing connectedness to global centers of excellence.…Read More
This introduction to the April 2015 Industrial and Corporate Change special section establishes the context within which automotive firms cope with turbulence caused by globalization, new governmental regulations, and advances in electronics, communication, and drive train technologies.…Read More
This article investigates the microeconomics underlying the spectacular growth of productivity in China’s manufacturing sector over the period 1998–2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of such dramatic growth, one observes a large, albeit shrinking, intra-sectoral heterogeneity coupled with an even more important process of learning and knowledge accumulation.…Read More
This article investigates the impact of ownership type on the entire growth rate distributional mass of Chinese firms, using a conditional estimation approach of the asymmetric exponential power density that goes beyond simple location-shift analysis.…Read More
