Shift: A podcast about mobility
Automotive News
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.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Oct 8, 2023 • 34min
Nth Cycle’s Megan O’Connor uses new tech to boost EV metals supply
The co-founder and CEO of the refining technology startup details the supply squeeze for nickel and cobalt. She describes how her company can pioneer domestic production while decarbonizing dirty recycling and mining processes.
Oct 1, 2023 • 45min
Tony Posawatz plugs EVs into grid resilience blueprints
The Fermata Energy CEO explains how car owners can reap financial rewards from vehicle-to-grid technology while bolstering the electric grid. Further, the former General Motors executive recounts his time developing the Chevy Volt.
Sep 24, 2023 • 41min
David Zipper on the problems with 'vehicular obesity'
The writer and visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School details the financial, safety and climate-related costs associated with pickups and SUVs and the potential of minicars and micromobility to change transportation.
Sep 17, 2023 • 42min
Legal landscape around automated driving remains murky
Automakers are introducing more sophisticated driving systems that complicate determining who or what may be held liable in the event of incidents. ZF board member Martin Fischer, Butzel attorney Jennifer Dukarski and Carnegie Mellon professor Phil Koopman scrutinize the details in a discussion pulled from last week’s Automotive News Congress in Detroit.
Sep 10, 2023 • 46min
Margo Oge underscores the urgency behind reducing emissions
The chair of the International Council on Clean Transportation discusses her role in spurring change at Volkswagen following the company’s emissions-cheating scandal and says 2023 marks a critical juncture in a shift toward green mobility.
Sep 3, 2023 • 42min
BlueSpace.ai’s Christine Moon forges a fresh approach to autonomy
The president and co-founder of BlueSpace.ai offers an alternate path to developing self-driving software, shares lessons learned from her first startup experience, and details the state of driverless deployments in San Francisco.
Aug 27, 2023 • 37min
How technology could change the makeup of the auto industry
Thilo Koslowski, board member for Arbe and a longtime industry advisor, says traditional automakers must change their cultures and attitudes now to keep their status in the future. He predicts that 10 percent of legacy automakers will be redefined or defunct because they failed to embrace the digital transformation.
Aug 20, 2023 • 26min
Reporter roundtable: San Francisco braces for robotaxi rollout and EV charging disappoints drivers
Automotive News reporters Hannah Lutz, Molly Boigon, and Pete Bigelow discuss the latest stories in the mobility realm, including Waymo and Cruise increasing their San Francisco robotaxi businesses and the EV charging problems revealed by a recent J.D. Power customer survey.
Aug 14, 2023 • 32min
SBD Automotive’s Robert Fisher on why EV range anxiety might be overstated
SBD Automotive’s domain principal for EV discusses to what extent vehicle owners view their brands as leaders in sustainability, why software is a stronger motivator for EV purchases in China, and how increasing awareness about the environmental costs of battery production might impact adoption.
Aug 7, 2023 • 40min
Jeff Farrah on the “immense challenge” facing the self-driving industry
The executive director of the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association discusses the anti-AV sentiment brewing in California, efforts to revive federal legislation, and what self-driving tech’s rollout says about American competitiveness.
