Much real electric vehicle innovation has little to do with the motor or battery technology inside. Technical breakthroughs don’t mean much if the primary conceptual narrative is stuck in a mindset from Henry Ford days. Narratives beneath the surface It’s all too easy to think of electric vehicles simply as newer-tech versions of their century-old internal combustion engine counterparts – just with a different...

Digital unique identifiers – luxury, advantage, prerequisite or opportunity? What do we do with identity? In our current world of branded identity and social media profiling, identity has become an often-artificial construct – something you engineer and use to illude, rather than something innate, immutable and earned. But engineers, techno-geeks and forensic detectives don’t think about identity in the same way as the Kardashians...