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Subscription power – Porsche Passports and beyond

A Porsche Passport lets you subscribe to the Porsche of your choice. But subscription software changes the whole playing field for ownership. There’s a lot of talk about new ownership models for cars, and companies seem to be trying out all kinds of flavours, twists and mixes. “Try it and see” may be OK for the big movers, but it’s confusing for us...

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Electric liberation – classic cars morph into contemporary cool

The early generations of electric cars have been visual clunkers. Is game-changer tech gonna’ be a constraint or a liberation? Mediocrity maketh motor? Let’s be honest – the early generations of electric cars have been clunkers. Tesla honourably excepted. Tech progress hasn’t really changed much in the design world.  So is game-changer electric vehicle tech gonna’ continue being a constraint – or could it help provide...

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Fintech and the kill switch

The Car Finance Company simply kills your car if you don’t keep up the payments – what’d happen if this was a widespread payment model?  The art of linking One characteristic feature of many new business models capable of rattling the bars of established industries (avoiding using the dreaded  dis****ion word here!) is that they link together technologies and ideas probably already familiar, but...

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