Transmission

By FreightWaves

Built to chronicle the seismic shift in auto supplier networks as the industry goes cross-border and electric.... more

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The podcast currently has 67 episodes available.

Transmission episodes:

January 25, 2022 Rethinking EV Production With REE Automotive
REE Automotive doesn’t make complete electric vehicles, but it does want to change the way people use EVs, so it’s rethinking how to build them with a suite of partners around the world.
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January 18, 2022 Comparing CO2 Emissions In The EV, ICE Supply Chains
Getting a handle on just how clean or dirty the “long tailpipe” is has been the subject of many reports. A new study by researchers at Yale University shows that, almost no matter how you slice it, electric vehicles are cleaner than internal combustion engine vehicles, when you measure all of the materials and energy required to build and drive them.
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December 21, 2021 Looking back: a view of the chip shortage and car sales in 2021
Car sales were down this year, thanks to the pandemic and the related chip shortage. But 2021 wasn’t the craziest year the automotive industry has seen recently - that was 2020. Now that we’re about to enter 2022, we look back with analyst Stephanie Brinley at overall car sales, as well as focus on electric vehicles and the partnerships automakers are forming to get the raw materials and batteries they’ll need for the next generation of EVs.
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December 14, 2021 The global electric vehicle landscape after COP26, Build Back Better
Earlier this year, Boston Consulting Group released a report called “Why Electric Cars Can’t Come Fast Enough.” Now that COP26 is in the rearview mirror and the Build Back Better bill is potentially about to pass, we speak with BCG’s Nathan Niese about what these two governmental projects might do the electric vehicle market across the world.
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December 08, 2021 Protecting components, protecting production
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical America has been using a packaging technology called RP System to protects products such as auto parts and electronics in Japan for many years. Now, the company wants to introduce RP System to production facilities in the U.S., and there’s no time like a pandemic to make sure limited supplies are protected from moisture and oxygen damage.
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November 30, 2021 Why BMW invests in long-range start-ups
BMW i Ventures invests in start-ups that will help the automaker build better, cleaner vehicles, sure, but it also wants to invest in companies that will help all automakers build better, cleaner vehicles. Managing partners and Kasper Sage and Marcus Behrendt tell us how it all works.
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24min
November 23, 2021 Can managed services make your auto supply chain more resilient?
On her last episode, Grace talks with BlueGrace Logistics’ Vice President of Logistics Operations, Todd Trompeter, on the complexities of consulting auto suppliers and OEMs on logistics. Trompeter dives into the company’s managed service offerings, how it differs from other logistics operations and how it has become table stakes for automotive operations. He also explains the importance of opening their new managed services’ office in Detroit and the available career opportunities for ex-auto workers within the company.
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26min
November 16, 2021 Economic impact of electric vehicles, redux
With the passage of President Biden’s infrastructure bill, Ellen Hughes-Cromwick returns to Transmission to discuss the impact of the bill on electric vehicle production and adoption in the U.S., as well as changes Third Way has seen in the EV landscape in the last six months, before the bill was passed.
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November 02, 2021 Simplifying vehicle architectures and the supply chain with better chips
Valens, fresh off of a listing on the NYSE and hosting its inaugural Analyst Day, is ready to deliver better semiconductor chips to automakers in the coming years. These high-data chips will simplify the wiring harnesses required in tomorrow’s vehicles, which in turn simplifies the amount of components the automakers need per car.
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October 19, 2021 Polestar’s CO2 Lifecycle Assessments
Polestar recently released Lifecycle Assessments for the CO2 emissions of the cars it builds, trying to understand how the production and use of its electric vehicles impacts the environment. Lisa Bolin, the automaker’s Climate Lead - and who knew that was a position you could hold at an automaker - joins us to discuss how difficult this task is, to say nothing about working on a completely carbon neutral car by 2030.
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FAQs about Transmission:

How many episodes does Transmission have?

The podcast currently has 67 episodes available.