Flexible Futures: Toyota’s Bold Bet, Algae Farms, and Wind-Powered Freight

A familiar automotive nameplate gets a bold update. We start with Toyota’s plan to make the Corolla impossible to ignore: a low, wide, sporty design paired with a platform capable of supporting gasoline, hybrid, battery electric, or hydrogen powertrains. Instead of relying on a single future, Toyota is designing for many—shrinking engines without sacrificing power, improving aerodynamics, and using flexible manufacturing to cut lead times so you can order what you want and get it quickly. If dealers keep prices reasonable, a desirable $25K sedan could attract buyers away from costly crossovers.

From roads to fields, we shift to the farm where simple green algae acts as a probiotic for soil. Live Chlorella vulgaris jump-starts microbial activity through rhizophagy, enhancing nutrient cycling, strengthening roots, and increasing yields while reducing synthetic fertilizer use by a third to half. Farmers can tank-mix it into existing spray passes, lowering runoff and input costs without sacrificing performance. It’s a practical way to achieve healthier fields, cleaner water, and better profit margins.

Next, we set sail—literally. The Neoliner Origin, a modern wind-powered RoRo, just completed an Atlantic crossing with rigid sails and a diesel-electric backup. It transports vehicles, containers, and refrigerated goods while aiming for up to 80 percent lower emissions than traditional ships. The motivation isn’t romance; it’s economics: lower fuel risk, regulatory resilience, and reliable operation. Like autos and agriculture, winners in shipping are those designing for efficiency that pays off.

The episode wraps up with the job outlook for the next decade. Warehousing and transportation will grow, but automation and autonomous trucking are reshaping roles. Healthcare expands to meet demographic demand, with technology handling routine tasks so people can focus on complex care. Office support, retail cashiers, and some clerical roles continue to decline due to AI and self-service. Across cars, farms, ships, and jobs, one question guides us: can we reduce cost and carbon while increasing reliability?

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Chapters

• 1:17 Toyota's Corolla Gets Radical
• 13:18 Farming Smarter with Algae
• 22:25 Wind-Propelled Cargo Ship Debut
• 33:24 Jobs Outlook In An AI Age

Transcript

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Welcome to the Tech Mobility Podcast. Brought to you by Playbook Investors Network, your strategic partner for unstoppable growth. Visit pincommunity.org to get started. I'm Ken Chester.

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On the docket. Farming Smarter with algae. Sail cargo ship completes first Atlantic crossing and jobs. What's in and what's out. As always, you're more than welcome to join the conversation by asking a question, sharing an opinion, or even suggesting a topic for future discussion by texting or calling the Tech Mobility Hotline, that number, 872-222-9793, or by emailing the show directly, talk at techmobility.show. For those of you who enjoy Substack, you can find me there too as a proud member of the Iowa Writers Collaborative, and that's at Ken C Iowa. K-E-N, the letter C, I O W A. From the Tech Mobility News Desk. What do you think of when I say Toyota Corolla? To many, the Corolla has been in production for almost 60 years. It is by far and away with all of its different models sold in 150 different countries, the most successful vehicle on the market, having during that time sold over 55 million vehicles. You might say dependable, and you'd be right. You might say a bit plain and you'd be right. And you might say long-lasting, efficient, practical, all right. But Toyota is getting ready to flip the script. At this year's Japan Mobility Show, they showed a Corolla concept which leverages a new Toyota architecture for smaller, more efficient engines, electrified drivetrains. This in turn enables larger cabins, lower vehicles, and better aerodynamics. But here's the best part you will never ever fit into a crowd again with the new Corollas. They are this radical remake on this new platform. And I'm going to define the article. This is on Automotive News. They say it's wrapped in as felt new package that is low, wide, sporty, and sexy. And you say, wait a minute. You did say Corolla. Yes, I said Toyota, Corolla. Low, wide, sporty, and sexy. Toyota is redesigning and repositioning the Corolla for a future for a lot longer time. And they realized, and it's always been one of the criticisms of the Corolla, is that its styling was kind of plain or frumpy or just disappear into a crowd. Looked a little bit too functional. So it is looking at changing that with the 13th generation of this car. Best part, like so many automakers right now in the marketplace, they are getting ready to support a variety of powertrains. Basically, the new Corolla is going to be what you call powertrain agnostic. And what do I mean by that? I mean that it can take a gasoline-powered engine, it could be a fuel cell, it could be a battery electric, it could be any of those things. And it could be just a gasoline-assisted hybrid, it could be all of those. That's what they're looking at. And in fact, go even as far as not just standard gasoline, but perhaps even alternative fuels. I want you to think about this for a minute. For the first hundred years or so of the automotive industry, if you were buying a personal passenger vehicle, be it car or truck, most of the time, like over 90% of the time, it was going to be gasoline powered. There's been a sprinkling of diesels down through the years across automakers. But if it's a car, if it was a car, most likely it was going to be gasoline. And in recent years, there's been a sprinkling of hybrids, starting with plug-in hybrids versus just assist hybrids. Excuse me, where the battery system assists the gasoline engine in hard acceleration or at times where power is demanded. What that allowed the automakers to do is make smaller gasoline engines because they're going to be assisted by the electric motor. It makes them lighter, more efficient, and it's a fortuitous cycle. That's where they're going. With this next generation of Corolla, it won't matter if you want an electric, if you want a hybrid, if you want hydrogen. Toyota will be able to deliver any of those powertrains effortlessly because the new vehicle is being designed to support it. It will none of that will be an afterthought. Imagine the possibilities. So being able to add a pure electric and perhaps hydrogen as well as a gasoline engine for that, even better. But Toyota didn't stop there. Buried in this announcement is a brand new set, a brand new family of gasoline-powered engines that are 15 to 20 percent smaller than the engines they replaced at the same power density. Toyota has found a way to take their existing gasoline engines and make them even more efficient and make them smaller. The new engine, the new gasoline engine for the Corolla will be a 1.5 liter. In the past, it's been 1.6, in some cases 2-liter, and they will have a 2-liter performance option. But it's amazing to look at how automakers are revisiting this. Let me also add this, because it's it's it's the 600-pound bear in the room. Toyota is still building a subcompact passenger car. In the year 2025 going into 2026, they are not abandoning the Corolla. Now, yes, they developed the Corolla Cross, which was kind of a tall wagon slash crossover SUV based on the Corolla platform, but the base Corolla ain't going nowhere. They're still building it and they're doubling down. They're saying no matter what you want this vehicle to be propelled by, we got you. And you're gonna look good doing it. And we're gonna be contemporary and relevant no matter what happens in the future, because we will be ready. Regular listeners also know that. Oh, I want to say maybe three, four months ago, we talked about Toyota and their Georgetown, Kentucky plant modifying an assembly line that will let it build almost anything on demand in real time. Imagine a day where you can get the Corolla that you want, be it gasoline, hybrid, electric, or hydrogen, delivered to your home from the time you ordered at the dealer to the time it's sitting in your driveway. Can you imagine two weeks? Are you ready for that? And maybe your neighbor bought the exact same car, but instead of the gasoline one that you bought, they bought a hydrogen version. Looks identical, different powertrains. If Toyota can bring this in at a price point that makes sense and not leave the market, and if the dealers can resist the urge to add profit on top of the sticker price, then the Corolla will continue to be competitive, if not more so, and an option, particularly if people decide that you know what, I don't have$50,000 for a truck, I don't have$35,000 even for a subcompact or compact SUV crossover. But I will spend$25,000 for a Corolla. Imagine that. The Corolla. I'm looking at pictures of it. They'll be lining up to buy this car, not because they have to, but actually, believe it or not, because they want to. Simple green algae may hold the answer for increasing crop yields on the farm. Imagine that! You are listening to the Tech Mobility Show.

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And if the current Santa Fe is any reference, yeah, the new one is worth the wait. Twenty-five years ago, so much improvement, so many changes from that model to this one. Worth the wait. Darcy Malsby is a farm news reporter here in Iowa. She's the former president of the Calhoun County Farm Bureau. And she's also a Substack contributor. She wrote a piece about algae. And oh yeah, I forgot. Her family owns a farm in Calhoun County in the state, what we call a century farm, and that is a farm that's been owned by the same family for 100 years that was recognized by the State Department of Land and Agriculture, Land Stewardship and Agriculture. So she knows a little something about farming. She reports that farmers are generating greater crop yields by applying simple green algae to their fields. Yeah, the same algae that you see on a lake, the same algae that's been around. Simple green algae. It's real. This is a thing, folks. This is topic A. Darcy writes, one of the oldest microorganisms is becoming one of the hottest ways top producers are getting more from every acre without harming the environment. I want that to sink in. For those of you that may be city folk that don't know too much about farming, there was a time once back in the day, the farmers used to regenerate their fields by every between every crop or every two to four years, they'd let it sit what they call in fallow. That means it wouldn't grow anything. They put over a cover crop, typically something that was rich in nitrogen. Why? Because that nitrogen would put, would replenish the field, re-strengthen the field, give the field a chance to breathe, catch its breath. That was then. Expensive. The flip side to that problem is this stuff runs off into our rivers, and the phosphorus and other nitrogens and things clog our rivers, pollute our rivers, and causes us other problems with the quality of our surface water and in some cases our drinking water. Imagine if there was a way, an organic way to reduce the amount of fertilizer, reduce the cost of imports, and increase yields significantly. Darcy continues to write.1 bushels per acre in 2022. To give you context, this is easily 200 bushels an acre more than the best yields we're seeing right now in the state. At least. Actually, probably more. So it's phenomenal. His recipe for success is something called N-soil algae, which is a powerful living green algae biostimulant. Let me stop. You heard biostimulant. Let me talk a minute about biodiversity in your soil. Consider this algae to be a probiotic for the soil. You're familiar with how probiotics are supposed to work in your body. You know, nurture the good bacteria, get rid of the bad bacteria so you would have a decent floral and fauna going on in your gut so you can digest well and your body runs better. Well, the soil's a lot like that too. And I'm going to skip around a little bit, but it boils down to this what Darcy is saying as she interviewed the folks and talked to them. When the soil and all of its different bacteria and the biodiversity that's actively naturally occurring in the soil gets overrun with the synthetic fertilizer that they put in the ground, the ammonia nitrous, all that stuff, it gets lazy. And the biodiversity in the soil don't work. It just stops working. It lets the nitrogen do the work. The problem with that is everything I just mentioned a few minutes ago about runoff and other issues, over fertilization, not to mention being very, very expensive. They say this is all about harassing the power of life in your soil to drive production. You might be wondering how do they apply it? Well, this live cell algae can be tank-mixed, and what they say tank mixed or sprayed either on the soil or through foil air applications, where they spray their fertilizer, where they spray insecticide, they can mix it in as part of that and spray it on the fields directly. Or if it's pre if it's post-emergent, that means that the plants are already growing up. They can use it to spray it right on the plants. They allege that this algae can help farmers reduce their commercial fertilizer by a third or more. It is not uncommon for growers to cut their fertilizer by 50% or more. That's a direct quote. That is good for the environment. It's good for our farmers because it reduces the cost of their inputs. It's good for consumers, no matter where you live, because it's less of those nutrients getting into our water. Everybody wins. And it's good because what this algae does is it wakes up the biodiversity in the soil and gets it working organically on its own. The actual name of this algae is called cholella vulgaris, which is Latin for comet green. And it's just this is just phenomenal. They call, let me get this straight now. They call this interaction, the process that's going on in the soil, rhizophyagi. Rhizophygy. This is the previously unknown symbiotic interaction, which is essential to nutrient cycling in the soil. The beautiful part about the algae is it jump starts it, it puts it to work, it gets the biodiversity back working, doing what it's doing, and as a result, organically, things work and the soil gets better and the roots get stronger, and the yields grow. They save money, even offsetting the cost of the algae application. Think about that. The world's first large commercial wind-propelled cargo ship just completed its first trip across the Atlantic Ocean. This is the Take Mobility Show.

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Did you know that Tech Mobility has a YouTube channel? Hi, I'm Ken Chester, host of the Tech Mobility Show. Each week, I upload a few short videos of some of the hot topics that I cover during my weekly radio program. I've designed these videos to be informative and entertaining. It's another way to keep up on current mobility and technology news and information. Be sure to watch, like, and subscribe to my channel. That's the Tech Mobility Show on YouTube. Check it out. The Neoliner Origin is the world's first large commercial wind-propelled cargo ship. The ship recently completed its first Atlantic crossing during the evening of October 24th in what is being described as a challenging one for the unique ship. How did it fare? Is this the future of commercial shipping? This is topic B. Isn't it interesting how things sometimes come full circle? In the days hundreds of years ago, big wooden ships plied the Atlantic Oceans, well, all the oceans, propelled by wind power. As we are looking at the cost of fossil fuels, both the actual physical cost, the cost to our environment, the emissions, all sorts of things. Everybody's rethinking. And on this program, we talked extensively about methane-powered ships. We did talk about wind-powered chips. Now, to be clear, it says wind-powered, but it does have a hybrid motor backup. Because after all, I mean it's a cargo ship. You've got to have protection. You have to have a backup. Because when you're out there, and God forbid the wind does not cooperate, no matter what you do, then you're going to need a way to get there from here. But it's pretty cool. Like I said, we talked about wind power a while back, and this is not your great-great-grandfather's wind-controlled ships. This is with all the modern advancements that they could develop to manif to get the most benefit out of blowing wind, regardless of which way it was blowing. Let's talk about this one. This particular, I did mention it's a cargo ship, but it's no ordinary cargo ship. It's what they call in maritime language, and I'm not making this up, a Roro. What that is, is a roll-on, roll-off cargo ship, meaning cars, SUVs, motorcycles, trucks, buses, heavy machinery like excavators and bulldozers, and other wheeled or self-propelled cargo gets driven on the ship and secured. This ship also had six berths that would hold a total of 12 folk that if you wanted to travel on this ship, you could a cargo ship and pay your way. That's in addition to the 13 crew. I'm quoting now from Maritime Executive, which is a magazine that talks about this kind of stuff. The ship is fast and it has the ability, on top of everything else, to carry refrigerated cargo. And they were looking at, it was built in Italy for a French company. They used it in services to approach some French islands that otherwise did not have regular service. And they were getting excited because it could be used now to transport fresh fruits and produce to the islands in bulk. This project took 10 years. But they view this vessel as a prototype actually for a larger service. And in case you're wondering about emission reduction, the ship is expected to reduce emissions versus a traditional cargo ship by 80%. The vessel has two rigid sails mounted on solid sail rigs designed by Chantiers del Atlantique, which gives it 3,000 square meters or over 32,000 square feet of sail area at a speed of 11 knots. I mentioned being a roll-on-roll-off ship. They have 1,200 lane meters for cargo across three areas, and the ability on top of all of that, they can even carry containers, like a container ship. So this particular liner, the Neoliner Origin, can do it all. You can take roll-on-roll-off freight, you can haul people, you can do refrigerated goods, you can haul other stuff too. What's not to love about it? The question is the maritime industry right now is looking at all sorts of ways as they are rethinking propulsion. And they're like everybody else, it's the bottom line, it's the bottom dollar. This is not just to reduce emissions. Trust me, if they could not make a business case for the millions of dollars spent to bring this particular ship to life, then they wouldn't. And from what I can tell, this won't be the last, nor will this be the largest one that they'll get built. And I needed to correct something. I said it was built in Italy. I'm sorry, it was built by RMK Marine in Turkey. I mentioned the motor, the supplemental motor. It is a 400-kilowatt diesel electric. I did say hybrid, but it's a diesel electric hybrid. And that, if you have to use that, then this means not 11 knots, it's 14, if that has to kick in. But that's not the primary source of propulsion. The sales are 32,000 square feet. That is a lot of surface area. That is a lot of surface area. But this whole conversation about being propulsion agnostic is not just cars, it's not just trucks. Heck, even railroads and airlines are looking at stuff like this. They are looking at everything. As everybody's coming to grips with the cost of moving freight, the cost of moving people, the cost to the environment, and can we do this better? Can we do this more cost effectively? Can we be more efficient at what we do? Because here's something that the people who are typically against climate change don't accept and may not realize. I'm going to go with that, that you may not realize. These companies are not doing this through the goodness of their hearts. They are looking at ways where this makes economic sense. And anytime they can be more efficient in their operation, it lowers costs, it increases resilience, reliability, and is faster. Without those items, this is a non-starter. And I don't care if it's cargo ships or railroad locomotives or airplanes. The argument is still the same. As we look at rethinking everything and how we move from point A to point B. Can we do this in a way that is more efficient, that is easier on the environment, and makes us money? Can we reduce our costs? Big deal. That was that's what's driving the messy middle in trucking right now. As they go from the diesel environment to an alternative fuel environment, they're looking at getting cost out because diesels are woefully inefficient. A big over the a big class A truck is maybe three to five miles to the gallon? Work the math. And you're running a 500-mile run and you're putting thousands of miles on a truck a week? Yeah. Same thing right here. Cargo ship. Will we see more wind-powered ships? I think we will. As they get the little bugs worked out, and some of the challenges worked out. I think you will. And I think it will be an amazing thing to see. Particularly as the cost comes down and it opens up other possibilities with freed up capital, freed up space, and a more efficient way of doing things. Efficiency is always welcome, particularly when the environment and business benefit. Statistica breaks down the most in and out of demand jobs of the next decade. We are the Tech Mobility Show.

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To learn more about the Tech Mobility Show, start by visiting our website. Hi, I'm Ken Chester, host of the Tech Mobility Show. The website is a treasure trove of information about me and the show, as well as where to find it on the radio across the country. Keep up with the happenings at the Tech Mobility Show by visiting Techmobility.show. That's Techmobility.show. You can also drop us a line at talk at Techmobility.show.

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Each week, I upload a few short videos of some of the hot topics that I cover during my weekly radio program. I've designed these videos to be informative and entertaining. It's another way to keep up on current mobility and technology news and information. Be sure to watch, like, and subscribe to my channel. That's the Tech Mobility Show on YouTube. Check it out. In light of the rapid advancements that AI tools have made since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, people have been pondering the potential of AI to replace certain occupations and to create new ones. Statistica has looked over the shoulder of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to find out what they say going forward over the next 10 years. We're going to review that. This is topic C. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, occupational employment projections, these are projections that they make about the projected change in employment in the United States between 2024 and 2034. Transportation and material moving will be among the faster growing occupational groups for the coming decade, as well as projected to add 580,000 jobs by 2034, with warehouse workers and truck drivers particularly in demand. Sounds good, don't it? Here's my problem with those numbers. Those numbers, ironically to me, don't address the issue. How much of those jobs, even though they will grow, will be supplanted by robots and autonomous vehicles. Why do I say that? We've reported here stories that Amazon right now is on track to replace hundreds of thousands of their warehouse workers with robots using AI. That is a fact. Truckers, we've reported here at length the activities down in the southwestern part of the United States with autonomous trucking. Big deal. It's been going on now for 10 years. And they're about to get real here in the next year to two years, where it will be full autonomous trucking without a safety driver and without oversight. That's happening right now. So if you are a warehouse worker, yes, there are more warehouses because of e-commerce than you've ever seen. I've reported on this. In fact, did even a talk to the Iowa Real Estate Commercial Real Estate Expo a few years back about the growth of modern warehousing and why that was happening. That is happening. But along with the addition of all those warehouses, and I'm talking about building warehouses beyond what Amazon is building, comes the need to be more efficient. Warehouse works, hard work. Stocking, hard work, capital intensive. Meaning for all that real estate they've got, they need to get mileage out of it. And they need the turnover in their warehouses to go up. That only happens through robotics. Which are more efficient, less likely to get an order wrong, less likely to get an order damaged, and can go places that human beings can't go. Particularly if you've got a tall warehouse where you've got stuff stacked seven, eight, nine tiers up. I don't know about you, but I'm afraid of heights. That's not happening. But by far, the biggest increase in employment is expected in the health care and social assistance sector, which is driven less by technical changes and more by demographic shifts. Kind words, us baby boomers are getting old and we need some help. That's what they're trying to say in a nice way. However, we've also reported here about the rise of home health care robots. How many of those in certain applications will supplant the need for health care workers? What I would contend is that human workers are probably still needed for the more difficult cases. In other words, those of us that are sicker and need more care. But I think some of those numbers are going to be supplanted by robots. I do. I really do from what I've read and what I've seen. They expect over the next decade at individual for home health and personal care aids to grow by 740,000 jobs by 2034. Registered nurses, medical and health service managers, as well as nurse practitioners are also in the top ten, those less likely to be replaced even by AI. And that should make my daughter feel good because she's a registered nurse in the process of becoming a nurse practitioner. So, Monica, you got it right. Here's the top ten careers that will grow. Home and health care personal aids. Software developers, believe it or not, 267,700. Although, again, I believe AI will supplant some of that. Stocker and order fillers. I used to be one. 235,000. Computers, fast food and counter workers, same thing. Restaurant cooks, mmm. I think that might be doable. Registered nurses, general and operations managers is a growth number according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They expect to add 164,000. They will learn to work with AI. And then finally, medical and health services managers. Somebody's got to manage those health plans that we're on. And while they'll work with AI, you're still going to need a human touch in the midst of that. Now say the good stuff real quick. They also talked about the Bureau of Liberal Statistics also talked about four occupational groups that are projected to lose jobs over the next decade. Office and administrative support occupation, production occupations, sales and related occupations, as well as occupations in farming, fishing, and forestry. At the top of the list, not surprised, cashiers. They expect to shrink by 313,600 jobs in the next 10 years. Other jobs high in the list are office clerks. Are there such a thing anymore? There was when I first came in, but office clerk, yeah, not so much. Customer service representatives, you're probably talking to AI right now when you call in and don't even realize it. And this does say, the article does say, the latter are vulnerable in particular to the rise of AI-powered customer service chatbots. When looking at the relative employment changes, word processors and typists, which, if there are still some, I will be amazed. Roof bolters, which is, I don't know how that differs from roof installation. That's also down 34%. And telephone operators. Wait a minute. First of all, people still using telephones? Let alone there are operators still? Yeah, not so sure. And even the article acknowledges that neither of which will move the needle in absolute numbers, however, due to them being relatively rare occupations to start with. Also on the list, I mentioned general office clerks, bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks. Uh-oh. Fast food cooks, I could see that. First line supervisors of retail sales workers. Well, if the workers are down, you don't need as many supervisors. Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks. Interesting since where housing's gonna go up, you still need somebody at the end of this. And then last but not least, bank tellers. I don't even know the last time I actually interfaced with a bank teller.

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To learn more about the Tech Mobility Show, start by visiting our website. I'm Ken Chester, host of the Tech Mobility Show. The website is a treasure trove of information about me and the show, as well as where to find it on the radio across the country. Keep up with the happenings at the Tech Mobility Show by visiting Techmobility.show. You can also drop us a line at talk at Techmobility.show.

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