Innholdsfortegnelse for April 14, 2023 i Newsweek International

1975 “Misery became a way of life in Indochina long ago, but the tide of human suffering that suddenly engulfed South Vietnam last week swept forward with unprecedented cruelty,” Newsweek wrote. “Along the coastline of the South China Sea, major cities tumbled like tenpins, and exhausted and terrified refugees died by the hundreds in their desperate forced marches to escape the onrushing troops of North Vietnam.” Comparisons abounded during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, when evacuation scenes were similarly chaotic. 1984 It’s “a kind of national shell game where the shells are tax-deductible... and only the government is left to figure out where the money went,” Newsweek said. In March, President Biden unveiled a $6.88 trillion plan to reduce the deficit, in part by increasing taxes on…

FORD MOTOR COMPANY’S TRUCKS AND vans are getting more intelligent thanks to Ford Pro’s technological tools. The software has been in existence for more than a year, but it has begun to make a major impact this year as more E-Transit electric vans reach customers, the launch of the revised Super Duty truck line and a ramp up in deliveries of the F-150 Lightning. Ford Pro offers an all-in-one solution for businesses, transforming the way companies do their work and more cohesively linking data to vehicle ownership and corporate management. The Ford Pro brand encompasses five areas: software, service, charging, financing and vehicles. FORD PRO’S BEST FEATURE IS THAT ITS TECHNOLOGY IS SCALABLE.” Ford Pro Intelligence software is a digital suite of solutions designed to help make businesses run more…

AT ITS HEADQUARTERS IN SANT’AGATA Bolognese, Italy, Lamborghini has implemented a multi-pronged strategy to work more cleanly and support environmental research. The company’s “Direzione Cor Tauri” plan is driven by the largest investment in Lamborghini history, €1.5 billion over four years. Under fields next to Lamborghini’s certified carbon-neutral manufacturing base is a pipeline that pushes biomethane gas to the facility. This year the pipeline will supply 50 percent of the power for Lamborghini’s manufacturing operations, replacing natural gas. Two biomethane trigeneration plants produce electricity, heat and cooling that will reduce the company’s carbon footprint by up to 80 percent or 11,400 tons per year. Other sustainability efforts are underway at the manufacturing site. Solar panels absorb energy and provide shade for holding areas. Ninety-five percent of the paint used inside…

CultureHIGH, LOW + EVERYTHING IN BETWEENUNCHARTED Willy Loman for the Future Billy Crudup sells condos on the moon in his new series, Hello Tomorrow! Breezy BoaterThe Arc at Green School BALI, INDONESIA At first glance, what looks like a giant folded straw hat that the wind might carry off to the nearby Indian Ocean is, in fact, the curved roof of this school’s gymnasium. The private institution in the jungle advocates sustainability education. Bamboo arches stretching 62 feet are bent to form a 45-foot-high natural shelter that resembles the shape of a mammal’s rib cage. Maximizing space with minimal materials, this unparalleled structure lets the breezes provide natural air conditioning. (See #09 on following spread) 01 Urban Treehouse Populus DENVER Populus, set to open in late 2023 in downtown Denver,…

EING A VISIONARY MEANS TAKING the yellow brick road in a world of gravel, asphalt and cement, and setting the course for others to find the pathway ahead. Seeing beyond the confines of the world as it exists today, to imagine the possibilities for the future of the auto industry in terms of technology, fuels, product and sustainability, is why Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, is Newsweek’s Auto Disruptors Visionary of the Year. Zipse has spent his entire 30-plus-year career at BMW AG, rising from his first job as a technical planning trainee to become chairman of the board in 2019. Spending his professional lifetime at the same company, however, doesn’t mean that Zipse has spent his four-year tenure as chairman working to maintain…

GENESIS HOUSE, A 46,000-SQUARE-FOOT space, in New York City’s Meatpacking District is not just an auto showroom. It’s also a place to experience Korean culture and food or take in a fashion show. The three-floor location features a restaurant, tea pavilion, showroom, stage, library and garden, all of which can be enjoyed whether you are a Genesis owner or not. And it is the reason Genesis is the winner of this year’s Marketing Strategy of the Year honors. Fashion is often featured at Genesis House. Last August, the company partnered with New York City-based label MONSE for the “Make Your Mark” event featuring the new Genesis G90. Vogue featured Genesis House in its September and October issues. During New York Fashion Week in September, designer Peter Do debuted his “Foundation”…

“DOING MORE WITH LESS” IS A KEY GOAL across the auto industry, but nowhere is it more important than in electric vehicle powertrains. Every gram that can be removed means more range and less charging time. The electric motors in Lucid’s Air sedan can deliver up to 1,200 horsepower. A single 67-pound motor provides up to 670 horsepower. The sedan’s stator, the part of the motor that stays stationary, produces a denser magnetic field than competitors’ using a new type of square-bar winding. That allows for smaller permanent magnets and more power than a Tesla Model 3 motor in a package that is 30 percent smaller. It can be assembled robotically while many competitors need to string their windings by hand. Lucid also found a new way to add more…

“THE FACE OF ROCK AND ROLL WAS THE WHITE MAN; THE FACE OF DISCO MUSIC WAS THE BLACK WOMAN.”— Daisy Jones & The Six actress Nabiyah Be “I am fighting for the voice of India. I am ready to pay any price.”—INDIA’S OPPOSITION LEADER RAHUL GANDHI “American data will be stored on American soil, by an American company, overseen by American personnel.”—TIKTOK CEO SHOU ZI CHEW “When there’s an opportunity to avoid civil war through dialogue, I, as prime minister, am taking a time-out for dialogue.”—ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU “I DON’T WANT TO BE LIMITED. I WANT TO SPREAD MY WINGS AND FLY.”—Supermodel Gisele Bündchen “History had me glued to the seat.”—Civil rights activist Claudette Colvin recalling the Montgomery bus boycott “IF WE DON’T STAND IN THE WAY, WE…

THIS YEAR IS SHAPING UP AS A REBOUND FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, following a drop-off in sales in 2022. Even as supply chain problems begin to ease, new challenges are emerging—a possible recession, still-high inflation, the impact of the war in Ukraine on the financial markets—that could give buyers pause about spending money on new and used models. What won’t slow down, experts say: the industry’s development of fresh products as design, testing, powertrain and sales evolutions that started pre-pandemic take firm hold in the vehicles that can be found on dealer lots. Newsweek asked its go-to group of automotive industry analysts what they see happening in the coming year. Here are their top predictions. 1 Auto sales will slowly bounce back. “Expect about a million more light vehicle sales…

THE BEST EXECUTIVES DON’T JUST ZIG WHEN everyone else zags, they know exactly the right time to zig. That’s how the winner of Newsweek’s Auto Disruptor Executive of the Year Akio Toyoda earned this honor. During his 13-year tenure as Toyota Motor Corporation’s president, Toyoda didn’t always go with the auto-industry flow, instead plotting a separate course for the company that his grandfather founded—one that has enabled Toyota, in a fast-changing, challenging business environment, to retain its spot as one of the world’s largest automakers. While most of the world’s auto market is rushing to electric vehicles, Toyoda, a car racer himself, put his company’s mission forward as “no more boring cars,” rather than battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) first. He utilized the Toyota Racing Development wing of the company to bring…

DONCKERWOLKE BEGAN AT HYUNDAI DESIGNING THE POPULAR PALISADE AND KONA SUVS AND ADDING FLAIR TO THE SONATA.” DESIGNER LUC DONCKERWOLKE IS SOME- thing of a design oracle for Hyundai Motor Group, pushing beyond traditional boundaries and setting the brand’s designs far apart from the crowd in ways that delight customers. He joined the Korean automaker in 2015, after stops at Peugeot and the Volkswagen Group, where he had designed showstoppers like the Lamborghini Diablo and the Bentley EXP 10 Speed Six concept. He took the chief creative officer job in 2020 and was named president of HMG in 2022. Donckerwolke began at Hyundai designing the popular Palisade and Kona SUVs and adding flair to the Sonata. Later he and his team designed the new luxury Genesis GV80 SUV and redesigned…

IT’S THE ALL-ROUND IMPRESSION FOR OUR USER THAT COUNTS.” “THE ULTIMATE DRIVING MACHINE” WAS BMW’s tagline through the ’80s and ’90s, as it focused on building manual transmission sports sedans and rowdy two-seat roadsters well into the era when SUVs became popular. It remains the company’s tagline in the U.S. today. It takes a focused engineering effort to keep the idea behind that motto at the forefront of research and development in the era of quiet electric motors and driver assistance technology. BMW has managed to do that with a range of electrified products that stimulate the senses, from the exceptionally quick and sharp handling i4 sedan to the sizable (but not thunderous) iX electric SUV to the new high-end luxury i7 sedan. CEO and Newsweek Auto Disruptors Visionary of…

HELLO TOMORROW! ON APPLE TV+ IS BOTH FAMILIAR AND SOMETHING we’ve never seen before. “It’s representing materially and metaphorically, America as it once was, America as it will be and America as it is now,” Billy Crudup says about the new series, currently streaming. Crudup plays Jack, a salesman in a retro-futuristic United States, tasked with selling condos on the moon while his life begins to unravel. On the surface, it looks like 1950s America, but with futuristic elements like hovering cars and gadgets. “The actual fabric of the universe is both comforting, aspirational and disconcerting.” And that element is what’s most exciting to Crudup about the world created by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen. Ultimately the show inspires a conversation about the American dream. “The more time we spend…