Driving to Zero: The auto industry's road map to carbon neutrality

Trailer: Driving to Zero coming September 11, 2023

Automotive News Season 1 Episode 0

The auto industry’s shift to carbon neutrality is here, and it’s accelerating. But is it enough?

Driving to Zero is a new podcast series from Automotive News that looks at the auto industry’s roadmap to carbon neutrality. We take a big-picutre look at the environmental, political and social trends pushing the move toward a greener future. And we pull back the curtain on how these decisions are being made at the highest levels.

Join host Jake Neher and Automotive News Executive Editor Jamie Butters on Driving to Zero, available wherever you get your podcasts starting September 11th, 2023.

The auto industry’s shift to carbon neutrality is here, and it’s accelerating. But is it enough?

Biden [:08] “This is a moral imperative, an economic imperative, a moment of peril, but also a moment of extraordinary possibilities.”

Guterres [:10] “No more hesitancy. No more excuses. No more waiting for others to move first. There is simply no more time for that.”

Driving to Zero is a new podcast series from Automotive News that looks at the auto industry’s roadmap to carbon neutrality. We take a big-picture look at the environmental, political and social trends pushing the move toward a greener future. And we pull back the curtain on how these decisions are being made at the highest levels.

Oge [:11] “My team and I went to each car company separately and we sat down and we said, what can you do? What you can not do? How much time do you need? How much is this going to cost you? And that paid off big-time.”

Wert [:10] “I said, the headline that you need is ‘GM believes in an all-electric future.’ And I think Dan Ammann and Mary Barra both said the same thing, which is, ‘But, we don’t.”

Spoiler alert – they come around to that idea. Find out how and much more.

I’m Jake Neher. Join me and Automotive News Executive Editor Jamie Butters on Driving to Zero… available wherever you get your podcasts starting September 11th.