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  • 48 minutes 46 seconds
    Megan Kimble probes the high price of America’s highways
    The author of “City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality and The Future of America’s Highways” examines the financial, environmental and human costs of highway expansions, explains the way interstates are funded, and details prospects of highway removal.
    21 April 2024, 11:00 am
  • 51 minutes 55 seconds
    Greg McGuire explores Mcity’s next chapter
    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.
    14 April 2024, 11:00 am
  • 44 minutes 2 seconds
    Shay Natarajan on confident mobility investing through uncertain times
    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.
    7 April 2024, 10:59 am
  • 43 minutes 15 seconds
    Jay Joseph sketches out Honda’s hydrogen strategy
    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.
    31 March 2024, 11:00 am
  • 40 minutes 58 seconds
    Justine Johnson touts Michigan as a hub for mobility
    Michigan’s chief mobility officer shares the state's efforts to ensure that transportation is equitable, clean and innovative across land, air and waterways.
    24 March 2024, 11:00 am
  • 37 minutes 47 seconds
    Energy Department’s Chelsea Sexton finances transportation’s future
    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.
    17 March 2024, 11:00 am
  • 36 minutes 7 seconds
    Impact of the DARPA Grand Challenge reverberates 20 years later
    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.
    10 March 2024, 11:00 am
  • 45 minutes 42 seconds
    BCG’s Augustin Wegscheider explores the nuances in AV, EV forecasts
    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.
    3 March 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 52 minutes 6 seconds
    Larry Burns identifies the biggest threat to the automotive future
    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.
    25 February 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 31 minutes 34 seconds
    Union of Concerned Scientists’ David Reichmuth unpacks the plug-in hybrid revival
    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.
    18 February 2024, 12:00 pm
  • 27 minutes 29 seconds
    Morningstar and Pitchbook experts on what VC investment says about the mobility sector
    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.
    11 February 2024, 12:00 pm
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