Shift: A podcast about mobility
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On Shift: A podcast about mobility, Automotive News tech and innovation team leader Pete Bigelow takes an optimistic yet skeptical eye at the new tech and business models planned for the auto industry. Shift is a production of Automotive News, the leading publication covering the auto industry. Check out our reporting online at autonews.com/shift and follow us on Twitter @Automotive_News.
Location:
United States
Description:
On Shift: A podcast about mobility, Automotive News tech and innovation team leader Pete Bigelow takes an optimistic yet skeptical eye at the new tech and business models planned for the auto industry. Shift is a production of Automotive News, the leading publication covering the auto industry. Check out our reporting online at autonews.com/shift and follow us on Twitter @Automotive_News.
Twitter:
@Automotive_News
Language:
English
Contact:
3134460362
Website:
http://www.autonews.com/podcast
Email:
futurismo@autonews.com
Episodes
Greg McGuire explores Mcity’s next chapter
4/14/2024
The managing director of the connected-and-autonomous vehicle test track details the facility’s evolution into a makerspace for mobility innovation that encompasses a data engine and mixed-reality tech development.
Duration:00:51:55
Shay Natarajan on confident mobility investing through uncertain times
4/7/2024
The partner at investment firm Mobility Impact Partners explains how she looks beyond transportation-tech hype when investing and details a viable path for electrification through charging and infrastructure uncertainty.
Duration:00:44:02
Jay Joseph sketches out Honda’s hydrogen strategy
3/31/2024
The vice president of sustainability and business development at American Honda Motor Inc. details the automaker’s new CR-V fuel-cell variant, an H2-focused joint venture with General Motors, and the state of hydrogen infrastructure.
Duration:00:43:15
Justine Johnson touts Michigan as a hub for mobility
3/24/2024
Michigan’s chief mobility officer shares the state's efforts to ensure that transportation is equitable, clean and innovative across land, air and waterways.
Duration:00:40:58
Energy Department’s Chelsea Sexton finances transportation’s future
3/17/2024
The program officer in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office explains how EV and energy policy gets implemented through billions in federal loans, and how that work underpins a clean-energy economy.
Duration:00:37:47
Impact of the DARPA Grand Challenge reverberates 20 years later
3/10/2024
March 13 marks the 20-year anniversary of the inaugural DARPA Grand Challenge race which catalyzed interest in self-driving technology. DARPA director Tony Tether, Carnegie Mellon University’s Red Whittaker, Waymo’s Melissa Dumas Grimm and Pronto’s Anthony Levandowski offer reflections on that race and how it steered the course of automated-driving development.
Duration:00:36:07
BCG’s Augustin Wegscheider explores the nuances in AV, EV forecasts
3/3/2024
The co-leader of Boston Consulting Group’s Center for Mobility Innovation discusses complications in deploying automated-driving technology and points to limited EV offerings a contributing factor behind a sales slowdown.
Duration:00:45:42
Larry Burns identifies the biggest threat to the automotive future
2/25/2024
The retired General Motors vice president of R&D and adviser to Google and Waymo believes the way digital technology is reshaping our lives will impact both vehicle development and whether we need vehicles at all.
Duration:00:52:06
Union of Concerned Scientists’ David Reichmuth unpacks the plug-in hybrid revival
2/18/2024
Reichmuth, a senior engineer in the organization’s Clean Transportation Program, examines if plug-in hybrids will lead to reduced emissions amid renewed interest and calls out automakers with inefficient PHEV offerings.
Duration:00:31:34
Morningstar and Pitchbook experts on what VC investment says about the mobility sector
2/11/2024
Sanjay Arya, the head of innovation for index product at Morningstar, and Jonathan Geurkink, a senior research analyst for mobility and supply chain tech at Pitchbook, explain what venture capital investment says about mobility tech and why there is optimism about a competitor for Tesla’s supercharger network.
Duration:00:27:29
Panasonic’s Andrew Poliak on automotive’s seismic software push
2/4/2024
The chief technology officer at Panasonic Automotive details advances on software-defined vehicles and what they mean for consumers.
Duration:00:37:27
McKinsey’s Russell Hensley confronts the ‘permacrisis’ roiling the auto industry
1/28/2024
The partner and co-leader of the consulting firm’s Center for Future Mobility advises automakers on navigating software, autonomy and electrification transitions amid profound changes in technology, workforce and the global world order.
Duration:00:36:26
Anthony Levandowski marks 2024 as the ‘year of the robot’
1/21/2024
The Pronto CEO and co-founder details the merits of pursuing off-road autonomy, provides a status report on self-driving technology and explains why he founded the Way Of The Future church as a framework for harnessing artificial intelligence.
Duration:00:47:59
Software-defined vehicle tech takes driver’s seat at CES
1/14/2024
“Software-defined vehicle” was much more than a buzzwordy catchphrase at CES. From Las Vegas, Elektrobit CEO Maria Anhalt and Qualcomm VP and head of software product management detail rapid advances and growing importance in auto software.
Duration:00:33:37
Michael Dunne charts China’s automotive ascendance
1/7/2024
The expert on Asia’s automakers and CEO of Dunne Insights warns that traditional automakers not named Tesla should be “terrified” of BYD across the globe. Further, he explains how China came to dominate battery materials and technology in the burgeoning EV market.
Duration:00:41:18
Clarios CEO Mark Wallace on the enduring role of low-voltage batteries in an EV era
12/31/2023
The Clarios CEO examines the growing importance of low-voltage batteries in fully electric vehicles, how recycling may ease geopolitical tensions the promise and realities of new battery chemistries.
Duration:00:34:56
Matt Markel wrings new innovation from an old technology
12/24/2023
The Spartan Radar CEO details how his company’s software serves as “eyeglasses” for conventional radar, vastly improving performance in the real world. Plus, he offers up an ideal holiday gift suggestion for budding engineers.
Duration:00:34:38
Gabe Klein explains the government's role as an EV charging catalyst
12/17/2023
Gabe Klein, executive director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, argues that there is no electric vehicle sales slowdown. The segment is growing, and the charging infrastructure to support it will be “private sector-led and government-enabled,” he said.
Duration:00:27:07
Katelyn Foley rethinks the way transportation startups come to life
12/10/2023
The UP.Labs president details the thinking behind a “venture lab,” which custom-develops startups for companies like Porsche and Alaska Airlines. Further, she warns automakers and suppliers of fragility within their supply chains.
Duration:00:38:01
Phil Koopman outlines next steps for Cruise and the self-driving industry
12/3/2023
The Carnegie Mellon University professor and embedded systems expert makes recommendations on how GM subsidiary Cruise can improve its transparency and trust. Further, he says it’s time the entire industry develops a new safety message.
Duration:00:45:53