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Shift: A podcast about mobility
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. Chec...
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Shmuel De-Leon on solid state battery benefits, why the U.S. should speed development
Shmuel De-Leon, CEO of De-Leon Energy, an Israeli battery consulting firm, explains the safety and performance benefits of solid-state batteries in el...
Magna’s Todd Deaville on how the mega-supplier uses AI
Magna International is leaning on artificial intelligence to improve manufacturing and to gain supply chain insights amid shifting trade policy. Todd...
Mike Murphy of the EV Politics Project: How EVs became polarizing
Mike Murphy, CEO of the EV Politics Project and the American EV Jobs Alliance, discusses how electric vehicles became political and the future of sale...
Automakers, be prepared for China competition in U.S., Larry Dominique says
Automakers shouldn’t count on Chinese vehicles’ exclusion from the U.S. market forever, warns Larry Dominique, previously with Stellantis and PSA Nort...
Policy changes to slow EV sales but cost, charging improvements will buoy sector
The elimination of the federal electric vehicle tax credit, scheduled for Sept. 30, will reduce EV sales initially, but charging infrastructure improv...
Ralph Nader, consumer crusader, is not done yet
Ralph Nader, a consumer advocate and a former presidential candidate, says the auto industry moved too quickly on electric vehicles and needs to devot...
Ahead of IAA, Anshuman Saxena unpacks Qualcomm’s big driver-assistance ambitions
Anshuman Saxena, vice president and head of ADAS and automated driving at Qualcomm, details the company’s long-simmering efforts to deliver driver-ass...
AAA’s Greg Brannon finds traffic-jam tech struggles in real-world congestion
Greg Brannon, director of automotive research at AAA, details the results of a new technical evaluation of traffic-jam driver-assistance technology. R...
Harry Campbell on how robotaxis reshape the ride-hailing business
Harry Campbell, known in the mobility world as The Rideshare Guy, explores how an influx of new driverless deployments and self-driving partnerships a...
EV policy rollbacks could threaten U.S. global competitiveness, says Biden-era charging leader Gabe Klein
Gabe Klein, who led the U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation under President Joe Biden, warns that the Trump administration’s reversal of fe...
Plus CEO David Liu on global growth and going public
David Liu, CEO of automated-driving tech company Plus, discusses how $300 million in proceeds from an expected SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp...
Kurt Kelty breaks down GM’s EV battery strategy
Kurt Kelty, vice president of battery, propulsion and sustainability at General Motors, discusses a flurry of recent battery developments that undersc...
Factorial Energy’s Siyu Huang on bringing solid-state batteries from the lab to roads
Siyu Huang, founder and CEO of Factorial Energy, provides updates on the company’s ongoing work with Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai, and detail...
Redwood Materials’ Cal Lankton Gives Old EV Batteries New Life
Lankton, chief commercial officer at Redwood Materials, details why the company just opened its Redwood Energy business unit and how it is repurposing...
Michael Dunne shares China’s playbook for automotive supremacy
Michael Dunne, CEO and founder of advisory firm Dunne Insights, details how Chinese automotive startups like BYD asserted dominance over Detroit’s leg...
Lyft off: Jeremy Bird details the ride-hailing network’s role in the robotaxi future
Jeremy Bird, executive vice president of driver experience at Lyft, explains how the company is working with Mobileye, May Mobility and others to laun...
J.D. Power’s Kathleen Rizk and Lisa Boor warn of driver-assist ‘identity crisis’
Kathleen Rizk, senior director in J.D. Power’s global automotive practice, and Lisa Boor, senior manager in the firm’s mobility benchmarking unit, add...
As Tesla readies for launch, Alex Roy inspects the economics behind the robotaxi business model
From his time inside a robotaxi startup, Alex Roy knows what it really takes to build a business around self-driving technology.
The venture-cap...
MIT’s Bryan Reimer proposes a rethink on highly automated driving
The founder and co-director of MIT’s Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium, Bryan Reimer, says the auto industry has been distracted by the allure of...
LG Energy’s Bob Lee navigates toward a sustainable future for the battery industry
Bob Lee, the North American president of LG Energy Solution, details how the ongoing tariff turmoil has both helped and hindered the company’s long-te...
Magna’s Steven Jenkins underscores why Tier 1s still matter in the age of software-defined vehicles
Steven Jenkins, vice president of technology strategy at Magna Electronics, discusses how partnerships with the likes of Nvidia spur progress and soph...
Grayson Brulte sees promise and potholes ahead on the road to self-driving
Grayson Brulte, founder and CEO of The Road to Autonomy, discusses recent developments in autonomous driving, including Sterling Anderson’s departure...
Oshkosh’s Jay Iyengar forges industrial-strength autonomy
The executive vice president and chief technology officer at Oshkosh Corp. details the company’s efforts to infuse automated driving technology into w...
Benchmark’s Bryan Bille measures Trump impact on EVs and battery supply chain
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence principal analyst Bryan Bille assesses policy changes in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term tha...
McKinsey: EV pains subside while driver-assist becomes a ‘differentiator’
McKinsey’s partners Philipp Kampshoff and Patrick Hertzke break down results from the consulting firm’s annual global consumer pulse survey.
The...
Wayve’s Kaity Fischer hits the gas on automated driving’s next chapter
Fischer, vice president of commercial and operations, discusses the tech startup’s new partnership with Nissan, which is Wayve’s first public tie-up w...
John Absmeier stitches together a look at autonomy, software and Toyota’s Woven City
On this week’s podcast, the chief technology officer and director of Woven by Toyota details the latest developments at Woven City, the company’s tech...
From Futurama to future tech, Dan Albert muses on the auto industry’s past, present and driverless road ahead (Episode 295)
The author of “Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile, Past, Present And Driverless” examines the effectiveness of efforts to improve road safety...
A glimpse into Aurora’s plans for launching driverless trucks (Episode 294)
Self-driving tech company Aurora Innovation plans to launch commercial service with its driverless trucks in April.
In this episode, Nat Beuse,...
Auto tech stands front and center at Nvidia’s GTC showcase (Episode 293)
This week’s Shift podcast features multiple interviews regarding news developments shared at Nvidia’s GTC, a prominent conference for developers shari...
Edwin Olson explores May Mobility’s budding rivalry with Waymo robotaxis (Episode 292)
Following a driverless ride around Ann Arbor, Mich., Edwin Olson, the CEO and co-founder of Toyota-backed May Mobility, sits down for a discussion on...
GM’s Adam Rodriguez talks Cruise, Super Cruise and the path forward
Adam Rodriguez, executive director of product and advanced driver-assistance systems at General Motors, shares the latest updates to the company’s Sup...
Dipti Vachani: Automakers’ survival relies on software smarts (Episode 290)
The senior vice president and general manager of automotive business at computing tech firm Arm underscores the importance of software-defined vehicle...
Sino Auto Insights’ Tu Le breaks down BYD’s big ‘God’s Eye’ ambitions (Episode 289)
The founder and managing director of consulting firm Sino Auto Insights discusses BYD’s new “God’s Eye” automated driving system and how it ratchets u...
Raquel Urtasun explains how generative AI underpins Waabi’s self-driving tech (Episode 288)
The Waabi co-founder and CEO of the autonomous-trucking startup discusses a new partnership with Volvo Autonomous Solutions. Further, she details the...
Kodiak Robotics’ Don Burnette reaches a driverless milestone (Episode 287)
Self-driving trucks are expected to make substantial progress in 2025. Here, the Kodiak Robotics CEO and founder takes stock of the burgeoning industr...
Dave Richardson on developing GM’s software ‘muscle’ (Episode 286)
The General Motors senior vice president of software and service engineering details efforts to build a software-oriented culture, explains why the co...
Bye-bye bots: Nuro concentrates on licensing its self-driving tech (Episode 285)
Nuro COO Andrew Chapin and Vice President of Engineering Tilo Schwarz explain the company’s pivot from developing bespoke delivery bots toward licensi...
Avery Ash examines U.S. crackdown on Chinese connected-car tech (Episode 284)
The executive director of the Coalition for Reimagined Mobility, part of the Securing America’s Future Energy think tank, breaks down new Commerce Dep...
CES: BCG’s Augustin Wegscheider | Mobileye’s Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Episode 283)
From Las Vegas, BCG analyst Augustin Wegscheider provides an overview of auto-tech trends at CES. Then Mobileye chief technology officer Shai Shalev-S...