Mobility Report

Herbert Diess spent some time last week touting the importance of bikes in ensuring that cars have a future in dense cities.

Gretchen Whitmer has rolled out a series of initiatives to help the state capitalize on a future influx of electric vehicles.

Cities can utilize data from shared transportation services to generate insights on how people and goods move around. But such data brings privacy concerns. The Future of Privacy Forum nonprofit has created a potential path forward.

The effort represents Apple’s strongest push into cars since CarPlay was released in 2014, but it may not be a hit with automakers, Bloomberg reported.

The automaker also said it planned to make more than half of its North America and China plants capable of EV production by 2030.

Japan’s Woven City, the digitally-driven town of tomorrow that Toyota is building on the foothills of Mount Fuji, could be a future air hub for the country’s flying cars.