It’s the time of 12 months the place we mirror on what went properly within the automotive/mobility sector and what didn’t go fairly to plan, each above and on the bottom, fairly actually in a single case — and that is the ugly of the checklist — for a lot of Chinese language employees who had been compelled to sleep on manufacturing unit flooring throughout COVID-19 lockdowns.
Our countdown begins with what we expect are the highest 5 achievements of the 12 months.
VTOLs cleared for take-off
Picture courtesy of Vertical Aerospace
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In the event you had requested final 12 months round this time whether or not autonomous driving would acquire traction earlier than vertical take-off and touchdown (VTOL) taxis, many would have opted for autonomous driving. Now, nevertheless, evidently the reverse often is the case, as you will note after we get to the failures of the 12 months.
A mannequin of the VX4 eVTOL plane displayed on the Solvay sales space at Ok 2022 gave a sign of how shut this mode of…