Episodes

What Happens When AI Outbids Detroit for DRAM and Data Centers Set the Rules? with Molly Boigon from Automotive News   Episode 273 Molly Boigon, Tech and Innovation Reporter at Automotive News is back on the show today to talk about how AI is hoarding DRAM,...

Juggling Chainsaws: Car and Driver Magazine’s John Voelcker On The U.S. Polestar Ban & The Detroit 2.5   Episode 272 John Voelcker, Contributing Editor at Car and Driver Magazine says today’s auto industry feels “like juggling chainsaws,” and that’s exactly...

Electrified SUVs Are Sitting at 27.68% Market Share Says Experian Automotive   Episode 271Kirsten Von Busch, Director of Product Marketing at Experian Automotive brings the receipts from Experian's Automotive Consumer Trends Report (Q1 2026) on what’s really...

Rivian’s Gulnaaz Afzal on What ‘Self-Driving’ Isn’t — While Playing Pong on the World’s Smallest Atari   Episode 270 In this last installment of "Live from AutoTech Detroit," Gulnaaz Afzal, Senior Autonomy Systems Integration Engineer at Rivian, joined me to talk...

Born In The USA: Telo Trucks & The All-Electric Mini Pickup Built For The City   Episode 269 Jason Marks, CEO of Telo Trucks, joins the show to unpack why the MT1 is essentially a Toyota Tacoma in a Mini Cooper-sized package and why that matters for cities,...

Why Today’s Auto Industry Looks Like 1908: Steve Bell from Omdia Automotive Explains   Episode 268 We accidentally got our schedules crossed… and ended up with one of the spiciest short episodes of the season. Recorded live on the expo floor at AutoTech in...

Is It Really a Two-Speed EV World? with Lindsay VanHulle from Automotive News   Episode 267 The EV market isn’t collapsing, it’s recalibrating. In this episode, I’m live at AutoTech Detroit while Lindsay VanHulle, Deputy Editor at Automotive News, calls in...

Is Your Car Secretly Smarter Than You? AI-Defined Vehicles with Edward Wilford from Omdia Automotive   Episode 266 Heated seat subscriptions (aka “toasty buns”), the Little Tikes EV charging station and a Cary Grant–level Bear photoshoot…yes, this episode covers...

The $1,000 Car Payment?! What Experian’s Data Really Reveals with Melinda Zabritski   Episode 265What’s worse: hitting a speed bump with a full cup of coffee… or signing up for a $1,000/month car payment? Both are bad, but that $1K car note stings a whole lot...