GUESTS: Oz Choudhri, Enterprise Mobility and Oliver Mackprang, MILES Mobility ABOUT THIS EPISODE As regular listeners know, RIDE is not an automotive podcast. However, this episode is all about cars. We all know the story: despite growing congestion on our roads, cars spend something like 95% of the day parked. They’re also expensive to run and own. Indeed, for many people a car is famously the second-largest financial commitment after their house or home. So what if we could use cars...

GUESTS: Mark Preston, StreetDrone; Dan Goff, Kodiak Robotics; Lukas Neckermann, PAVE Europe & Neckermann Strategic Advisors ABOUT THIS EPISODE Autonomous passenger cars are just one aspect of autonomous vehicle development. The autonomous vehicles we discuss in this episode are autonomous trucks pulling heavy loads. Martin and guest co-host Lukas Neckermann chat to Dan Goff of Kodiak Robotics and Mark Preston from StreetDrone about the use of AV technology in first-mile, last-mile, and...

GUEST: Inderveer Singh, CEO, EVage Motors ABOUT THIS EPISODE EVage Motors pitches itself not as an electric commercial vehicle company, but as "a tech-driven, innovations-led, purpose-powered, new-age electric mobility solution company." And the solution it's developing is to the problem of city pollution. EVage founders - who established the company in Chandigarh, northern India in 2014 - note that although cities occupy just 5% of the world's land mass, they are home to 50% of the...

Guest: Gunnar Froh, CEO, Wunder Mobility ABOUT THIS EPISODE Wunder Mobility provides white label software-as-a-service (SAAS) and hardware for vehicle sharing operators with fleets of e-bikes, e-scooters, e-mopeds, and cars. Based in Hamburg, the company was founded almost a decade ago and has now provided solutions for over 200 cities around the world. We sat down with Gunnar Froh, Wunder Mobility’s founder and CEO to talk about the evolution of shared mobility, the role of...

GUEST: Tristan Rousselle, Founder & CEO, Aryballe ABOUT THIS EPISODE What is digital nose technology? And what role could it play in future mobility? Our guest on this episode is Tristan Rousselle, founder and CEO of Aryballe, a digital olfaction firm that uses biochemical sensors, advanced optics, and machine learning to detect odour and turn it into data. This data is worth little, however, without a database behind it, and Aryballe’s USP is a searchable digital library of...

GUEST: Professor Carlos Moreno ABOUT THIS EPISODE When we first conceived the Ride podcast, one of the topics at the top of the list was the 15-minute city. This episode features an interview with Professor Carlos Moreno of the Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, the man credited with conceiving the 15-minute city. Until just a few years ago, the 15-minute city was a compelling urban planning theory around which new and future mobility solutions would be developed. It was only really known about...

GUESTS: Chris Borroni-Bird, Afreecar; Prodip Chatterjee, Nunam; Sukhjeevan Uppal, eTukTuk ABOUT THIS EPISODE Mobility for all means just that - it shouldn't be available only to those fortunate enough to be free of the physical or financial impairments that might prevent access to mobility. Yet one billion people - an eighth of the world's population - survive on less than $2/day. They desperately need electric power - and affordable personal mobility. This episode of Ride: The Urban...

GUESTS: Dan Sturges and Lukas Neckermann ABOUT THIS EPISODE Lifelong car fan and vehicle designer Dan Sturges discusses his new book, ‘Near to Far: A design for a new equitable and sustainable transportation system’. The book is both the culmination of a life in vehicle design and the automotive industry, and something a manifesto for the future of mobility. You’ll note the reference to Dan being a car fan, but not a petrolhead, for reasons that will become clear. The list of...

GUESTS: Sandra Witzel, CMO SkedGo, and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson ABOUT THIS EPISODE "Mobility for all" is an oft-used and well-intentioned phrase – but images of urban mobility and new mobility solutions rarely feature people with impaired mobility, or anyone living with a disability, raising questions about the concept of mobility for all. People living with disabilities face any number of challenges in the quest to get around, whether that’s related to urban planning, physical...

GUEST: Stefan Krause, CEO, B-ON ABOUT THIS EPISODE Stefan Krause returns to Ride: The Urban Mobility Podcast for a more in-depth discussion about B-ON, the challenges and opportunities of last mile delivery and fleet electrification, and the importance on zero emission strategies of regional policy such as Europe’s regulation on combustion engines, and the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). B-ON has over 20,000 vehicles on the road, delivering everything from milk and groceries, to post and...

GUEST: Alain Visser, Chief Executive, Lynk & Co ABOUT THIS EPISODE Our guest for this episode is Alain Visser, the founder and CEO of Lynk & Co, a car company that’s trying to do things a little differently. Lynk & Co is part of the Geely Auto Group, which itself is part of Li Shufu’s Huangzhou, China-based Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. The Group's brand portfolio includes Geely Auto, Proton, Lotus, Volvo Cars, Polestar, and London Electric Vehicle Company, as well as several...

GUESTS: Jona Christians, Sono Motors; Alain Visser, Lynk & Co; Marcus Welz, Hyundai Motor Europe; and Patrick Ayad, Hogan Lovells ABOUT THIS EPISODE For over a century, automakers have been selling a dream - namely, a means of mobility. But as the focus of mobility shifts from a reliance on personal transportation to a clean, zero-emissions seamless multi-modal journey, can the automakers pivot, and remain relevant, while still selling a dream? This discussion about the evolution of...

GUESTS: Dr Thomas Becker, BMW Group; Monica Perez Lobo, Toyota Motor Europe; Kunal Phalpher, Li-Metal. ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of the Ride podcast is brought to you in partnership with Reuters Events. It was recorded at Reuters Automotive Europe 2022 in Munich earlier this year, where Ride hosted a panel on ensuring net zero throughout the automotive value chain, featuring: Dr Thomas Becker, VP Sustainability, Mobility at BMW Group; Monica Perez Lobo, VP Corporate Affairs and...

GUESTS: Philippe Brunet, Renault Group; Felix Reinshagen, NavVis; Dr Michael Kohnhäuser, BMW Group ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of Ride is brought to you in partnership with Reuters Events, and was recorded at Reuters Automotive Europe 2022 in Munich earlier this year. Ride was invited to moderate a discussion on producing cost-effective EVs, with a panel featuring: Dr Michael Kohnhäuser, Head of Innovation Management and Digitization Production Drive at BMW GroupPhilippe Brunet, Alliance...

GUEST: YANN VINCENT, CEO OF AUTOMOTIVE CELLS COMPANY (ACC) ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of Ride: The Urban Mobility Podcast is brought to you in partnership with Reuters Events. It was recorded at Reuters Automotive Europe 2022 in Munich, where we had the opportunity to interview Yann Vincent, the CEO of Automotive Cells Company (ACC). According to Vincent: "ACC was created two years ago in August 2020 with a very simple objective, which is to build a European champion for engineering...

GUESTS: Lukas Neckermann, David Woessner, Olaf Sakkers ABOUT THIS EPISODE For a consumer, the best price is no price at all. After all, free is the magic number. But we all know that nothing in life is ever really free. Free is always factored into the cost somewhere along the line. But promoting something as free hides that cost, and leads to a complacency that comes with consequences. Free parking encourages us to use our cars. And free delivery prevents us thinking twice about buying...

GUEST: Augustin Guilisasti, founder and CEO of Human Forest ABOUT THIS EPISODE If you’ve spent any time in London in the last couple of years, you’ll have seen green electric bikes bearing the name Human Forest. But it’s not an exclusively London thing – as well as increasing the size of its electric bike share fleet across London, the company has its sights set on other cities. In this episode, we're joined by Agustin Guilisasti, founder and CEO of Human Forest – we talk about the Human...

GUESTS: Stefan Krause, B-ON, and Mark Thomas, Ridecell ABOUT THIS EPISODE Improving the efficiency of urban mobility means improving not just the way we move people, but also the way we move goods – from the shipment of everything from domestic grocery deliveries to supermarket stock to online electronics orders, there are major efficiencies to be found. Some are simple, and involve management, practices and processes; others are more costly and complex, from connectivity and...

GUEST: Hui Zhang, Group Vice President, Nio ABOUT THIS EPISODE As the established global automakers struggle to transition from the combustion engine to zero emission motoring, there's a growing number of well financed electric vehicle startups gaining ground in the EV marketplace, and among them, a number of Chinese automakers. Chinese EV brands are now growing fast in China where the government's push on New Energy Vehicles has seen the domestic EV market grow exponentially. The Ride...

GUESTS: Andy Wilman, The Grand Tour; Scott Mansell, Driver61; Mat Watson, Carwow; Jack Carter, TikTok ABOUT THIS EPISODE In 2015, Top Gear was one of the most successful British television exports, YouTube seemed young and inexperienced, at just ten years old, and TikTok hadn’t even been released. Seven years later, the media landscape looks very different, creating a new challenge for automakers and other providers of mobility: how can they best promote their products and grow or maintain...

GUEST: Silvia Fischer, VP Smart Mobility, FREE NOW ABOUT THIS EPISODE Mobility super apps are something we’ve talked about before on the podcast – these are apps which combine all forms of travel in a city to enable you to plan, reserve, and pay for your journey, regardless of the mode of transport and operator. We’ve seen the likes of Uber and Lyft add food delivery to their apps – and Uber is understood to be preparing the addition of long-distance travel bookings such as intercity...

GUEST: Raoul Schmidt-Lamontain, Heidelberg's Mayor for Climate Protection, Environment and Mobility ABOUT THIS EPISODE The city of Heidelberg is a picturesque Roman city in the South-West of Germany. A university town, the city has a population of around 160,000 people, and boasts a castle, a cathedral, and an ancient stone bridge that straddles the River Neckar. The city has for the last few years been on a campaign to reduce and ultimately eliminate emissions, earning itself the moniker...

GUESTS: Bonny Simi, Joby Aviation, and Robin Riedel, McKinsey ABOUT THIS EPISODE It's the stuff of childhood dreams: the flying car that slashes journey time, avoiding traffic, and taking you directly to your destination. Now, decades later, it doesn’t seem so far-fetched. In fact, there’s an entire industry building up around a new sector of flight, although as you’ll hear in this episode, it has very little to do with mainstream aircraft - or, for that matter, cars… It’s called advanced...

GUEST: Carl-Magnus Norden, Founder and Executive Chairman, Volta Trucks ABOUT THIS EPISODE One of the most exciting things as mobility evolves is the appearance of not only new technologies, and new business models, but also new brands. In this episode, we talk to Carl-Magnus Norden, founder and executive chairman of electric truck start-up Volta Trucks, about: The challenges of launching an all-new truck brandThe challenges of commercial vehicle electrificationTruck-as-a-Service and the...