
The auto industry is charging ahead toward a future powered by batteries. But is fast too fast? Is all this innovation missing important components – is it all just too much shock to a system that has been powered for decades by the internal-combustion engine? Automotive News asked two men at the electric epicenter – Marvin C. Kröger, business development manager at Keysight Technologies; and Peter Lynch, president of MAHLE Industries Inc. – to provide some levelheaded observations about the future, tempered with perspectives firmly grounded in the realities of the present.