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In depth discussions of the most important trends and developments shaping the automotive industry with industry executives and the top auto journalists. Your half-hour update on what they’re talking about in the C-suites.
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Autoline This Week #2616 - The Only Book About Every Automotive Law
You cannot believe how many laws regulate the auto industry. So many that it’s almost impossible to keep track of. But two legal eagles, Kevin McDona...
Autoline This Week #2615 - Uh-Oh, Now It’s A Shortage Of Headlamp Engineers
You’ve heard of the chip shortage that crippled automotive production. But you probably haven’t heard about the critical shortage of headlamp engineer...
Autoline This Week #2614 - Lordstown Motors Goes Asset Light, Develops Skateboard Trucks
Lordstown Motors changed its business plan. Instead of building electric trucks, it’s going to have Foxconn build them for it—in the plant that Lordst...
Autoline This Week #2613 - Suppliers Give Toyota Thumbs Up, Stellantis Thumbs Down
Automotive suppliers have strong opinions about the automakers they sell parts and services to. Some automakers have great relations with their suppli...
Autoline This Week #2612 - Electric Roads Solve EV Range At No Taxpayer Cost
Powered roads, where EVs pick up electric power from the road as they drive, is a dream that goes back decades. But now a convergence of technologies...
Autoline This Week #2611 - A Conversation with GM President Mark Reuss
Every year the SAE Foundation chooses a recipient for its Leadership Award. This year it chose GM President Mark Reuss. At the awards banquet, Reuss s...
Autoline This Week #2610 - Foreign Automakers In Trouble In China
Five years ago, foreign automakers saw China as an unending source of growth and profits. Not anymore. Today, companies like Volkswagen and General Mo...
Autoline This Week #2609 - Russian Invasion Upends The Auto Industry
In addition to the terrible loss of lives, the tragic lines of refugees and brutal war crimes, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is upending the auto indus...
Autoline This Week #2608 - Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur? Here’s What You Need To Know
It takes a certain type of person to be an entrepreneur. But even those people need to know their strengths and weaknesses and how to avoid common pit...
Autoline This Week #2607 - Toyota's Chief Scientist Lays Out Its EV Strategy
Gill Pratt, Toyota’s Chief Scientist, says we’re going to hear a lot more about the company’s move into electric cars. Up to now Toyota’s public state...
Autoline This Week #2606 - EV Battery Cost Falling To $50-60/kWh
Batteries for electric cars are extremely expensive. But Tal Sholklapper, the CEO of Voltaiq, a battery design consultancy, says that cost is coming d...
Autoline This Week #2605 - Auto Shows Can Really Help Sell EVs
Despite the perception that auto shows are losing their appeal, Foresight Research says the public is just as interested in auto shows as it ever was....
Autoline This Week #2604 - Three Companies That Can Take Your Automotive Idea from Concept to Production
Multimatic, PEM Motion and Ettractive are three Canadian companies with expertise in turning ideas into reality. Here’s their advice on what startups...
Autoline This Week #2603 - GM Wants To Sell You Other Automakers' (Used) Cars
General Motors is jumping into online retailing with both feet. It’s launching a web portal called CarBravo to sell used cars, including non-GM brands...
Autoline This Week #2602 - Goodbye Rust Belt. Hello Mobility Revolution.
They used to call it the Rust Belt. But Midwest states like Michigan are actually at the leading edge of a revolution in new mobility. Smokestack fact...
Autoline This Week #2601 - Myths, Urban Legends and Misinformation About Public EV Charging
The public is hyper aware that a wave of electric cars is about to hit the market. But the public doesn’t know a lot about the public EV charging infr...
Autoline This Week #2530 - CES: A Magnet For Automotive Technology
CES is renowned for being a mecca for tech companies. Even so, for 2022 it’s attracting a record amount of automotive exhibitors and speakers. One out...
Autoline This Week #2529 - Solving The Tech Shortage
There is a critical shortage of automotive technicians in the US. Car dealerships, body shops and automotive repair facilities can’t find the people t...
Autoline This Week #2528 - Revolutionizing Product Development With Digital Twins
The auto industry is learning how to slash the time it takes to develop new cars and components with a technology called Digital Twins. By simulating...
Autoline This Week #2527 - Can The U.S. Compete With China?
Automakers are heavily investing in EVs. The Biden Administration wants 50% of all new cars to be electric by 2030. Yet, the US depends on China for 8...
Autoline This Week #2526 - Ford Retools For The Next 100 Years
The Ford Motor Company has laid out an ambitious plan to transform the company by the end of this decade. It has to transition to electric, autonomous...
Autoline This Week #2525 - Automakers Unite To Confront Cybersecurity Threats
Cybersecurity is a threat that no automaker or supplier can handle on its own. So the auto industry formed an Auto ISAC: an information sharing and as...
Autoline This Week #2524 - Using AI To Make ADAS More Effective
Automotive safety technology can prevent accidents and save lives. But it can also be maddeningly annoying. All those beeps, buzzes and warning chimes...
Autoline This Week #2523 - China Takes The Lead
China’s automotive industry used to rely on foreign automakers and suppliers to develop cars and technology. Not anymore. China set a goal to become s...
Autoline This Week #2522 - EVs Unleash A Flood Of Litigation
The auto industry knows the future is with electric vehicles. But it’s also facing a slew of new legal issues that EVs bring with them. Battery fires...
Autoline This Week #2521 - Behind The Scenes Chaos At Tesla
Power Play is a new book about the history of Tesla. Its author, Wall Street Journal reporter Tim Higgins, interviewed hundreds of people both inside...
Autoline This Week #2520 - Magna Sees EVs Leading To Great Growth
Magna makes all the major components that go into cars. It even assembles cars for various automakers, something that no other Tier 1 supplier can do....
Autoline This Week #2519 - Unsung Heroes Get Inducted In The Automotive Hall Of Fame
The Automotive Hall of Fame has already Inducted some of the most famous names in the history of the industry. Now it's reaching out to induct minorit...
Autoline This Week #2518 - Nissan's Z Embraces Modern Technology With A Retro Design
Alfonso Albaisa is the Senior VP of Design at Nissan. He talks about how he had his team design the new Nissan Z sports car, incorporating new technol...
Autoline This Week #2517 - Gad Zoox! AV Startup Re-Writes The Book On Safety
Mark Rosekind is a former NHTSA administrator. Now he’s with autonomous vehicle startup Zoox, which was recently bought by Amazon. Zoox has a clever d...
Autoline This Week #2516 - Manufacturing Cars With Biomaterials
The auto industry is working hard to reduce its carbon footprint. And while everyone is aware of the big push to electric cars, there are other effort...
Autoline This Week #2515 - The US Trails China In Mining Metals for EVs
China cornered the global market for the critical metals and minerals needed to make EV motors and batteries. Now the Biden Administration wants to de...
Autoline This Week #2514 - Can The Grid Handle All These EVs?
Over the next three years there will be a flood of electric vehicles hitting the market. Can the electrical grid handle the load? How about on hot sum...
Autoline This Week #2513 - Two Companies That Already Operate Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles are not years away from going into commercial operation. They’re already on the road today providing rides to the public. May Mobi...
Autoline This Week #2512 - Rebuilding The Supply Chain for Chips and EVs
The auto industry got clobbered by a shortage of chips. It could also face a shortage of critical materials needed to make batteries and motors for el...
Autoline This Week #2511 - Work From Home, Or Go Back To The Office?
At some point the pandemic will end and people will be able to go back to the office. But many will opt to keep on working from home. The auto industr...
Autoline This Week #2510 - Tip Toeing Through The Transition: From ICE To BEV
Automotive suppliers who make parts for piston engines know their future is threatened by electric cars. They have three choices. 1. jump on the EV ba...
Autoline This Week #2509 - How Would You Like To Drive And Only Get Green Traffic Lights?
Connected car technology can dramatically improve vehicle efficiency and safety at the same time it slashes emissions. Better still, it costs a fracti...
Autoline This Week #2508 - Canada Emerges As An EV Powerhouse
A year ago the future of the Canadian auto industry looked doubtful. But then GM, Ford and Stellantis announced billions of dollars in investments to...
Autoline This Week #2507 - The Challenges Of Selling More EVs
Automakers must meet government mandates for Zero Emission Vehicles. They’re investing billions of dollars to develop battery electric cars. Yet last...