Dear reader,
I hope you have had a good start to the new year. My colleague Christoph Seyerlein, who usually greets you here, went straight to Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Show has been one of the most important car shows in recent years. Things will be different in 2024. The exhibitors hardly show any real innovations anymore. In addition, the US auto industry is hardly represented at all, and with the Chinese manufacturers, the very ones that have recently been shaking up the industry are missing.
But there are plenty of topics in Vegas that will change the auto industry. Above all: artificial intelligence. You can read how this is finding its way into vehicles and what that means for the industry in the first manage mobility issue of the new year. These are our topics of the week:
How VW, BMW and Mercedes are upgrading their cars with AI
How animal boss Lawrence Leuschner loses his job
How expensive it will be for BMW to convert its main factory to electric