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. Check out our reporting online at autonews.com/shift and follow us on Twitter @Automotive_News.
Episodes
344 episodes
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 lega...
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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,
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39:07
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, address consumer confusion in the realm of driver-assist systems.They detail their latest ...
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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-capital partner, business advisor, podcast host and founder of the Human Driving Association exam...
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49:39
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 in...
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49:51
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-term planning...
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37:13
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
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43:39
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 from Aurora for a
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38:18
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 work vehicles wit...
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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 that affect critical mineral developments, batteries and the electric vehicle supply chain.
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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.They detail im...
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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 with a global automake...
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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 technology and mobility test bed located at the foot of Mount Fuji in Japan.He discusses Wo...
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From Futurama to future tech, Dan Albert muses on the auto industry’s past, present and driverless road ahead (Episode 295)
The author of “
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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...
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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 sharing their latest ...
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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 the co...
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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 Super Cruise feature.Further, he details how GM is integrating software from Cruise, the c...
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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 vehicles to the automotive future. Further, she explains how carmakers can keep up with the frenetic ...
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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 up competition with Tesla’s Full Self-Driving feature.Further, Le underscores the signif...
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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 generative AI advances at the heart of the company’s end-to-end AI stack and approach to devel...
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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 industry while detailing how his company readied for driverless deployment with partner Atla...
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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 company eschewed Apple CarPlay and examines similarities between Apple and GM’s product-first focus.
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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 licensing automated driving tech to carmakers and others. Further, they detail testing efforts on privat...
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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 Department rules that keep Chinese and Russian software and hardware out of the connected-vehicle su...
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