In Episode #223, author and Wall Street Journal reporter Mike Colias joins Osi to break down the huge changes happening in the car industry as it shifts from gas-powered engines to electric vehicles (EVs). The question isn’t whether EVs are coming—they’re already here. But how this transition plays out is the real story. They discuss the intense competition among car companies as they race to keep up with Tesla and fast-growing Chinese EV makers like BYD, along with the implications of a world where the U.S. and the rest of the world become reliant on China for the essential materials needed to build EVs.

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Mike Colias is a Wall Street Journal reporter and veteran of the US automotive beat. He is based in Detroit, where he has covered General Motors for fourteen years and, five years ago, added Ford to his duties. His agenda-setting coverage includes scoops on multibillion-dollar EV factory investments, executive hirings and firings, and closely guarded decisions to add or cut vehicle lines. With access to all the key players in the automotive industry, he has tracked the transition to electric vehicles from its earliest days, relying on hundreds of sources across the automotive sector. Colias has been a business journalist for more than twenty years.