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- How Aluminum Makes For Better Electric Vehicles
Constellium makes aluminum components for everything from the beverage industry to the military and automakers. For the new Ford F-150 Lightning, Constellium’s value-added aluminum can be found in the windshield header, rocker and other places. Craig Lewis runs us through the details, and why aluminum is better for EVs.
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25 min - The rise of vehicle home delivery
E-commerce trends are beginning to merge into the automotive buying experience. We speak with Trent Broberg, CEO of ACERTUS, on how his company is digitizing the delivery experience for automotive manufacturers so you can not only purchase your vehicle at home... but have it delivered there as well!
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25 min - How to build a brand new type of truck with a brand new supply chain
Volta Trucks recently announced it will work with Steyr in Austria to build its first all-electric delivery trucks. We speak with co-founder Kjell Walöen about why Volta is using contract manufacturing and how that method will work during a pandemic. In short: it was the right choice.
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25 min - EVs need chargers, and Wallbox can provide
Wallbox has already sold 200,000 electric vehicle charging units, but with EV sales expected to grow rapidly in the coming years, the company is expanding production to the U.S. We talk with CEO Enric Asunción about the new plant and how they’re designing products to avoid future supply chain shortages.
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24 min - Tungsten, chip shortages and electric vehicles
Almonty has been mining for over 100 years, but the COVID pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges and,of course, opportunities. CEO Lewis Black explains.
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25 min - Graphical User Interfaces of the future
As technology in cars evolves, the way we interact with the vehicles will change, too. While holographic interfaces remain fantastical and mostly relegated to concept cars, Altia CEO Mike Juran expects tomorrow’s GUIs to go all in on augmented realty as well as behind-the-scenes adjustments to take advantage of flexible supply chains.
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25 min - How RAIN RFID can track your tires and build better cars
RFID technology isn’t new, but the way it’s being used to track components throughout the automotive building process is constantly growing and changing. Impinj’s Carl Brasek runs us through the way RAIN RFID is being used by automakers today, and how it might be used in the future to simplify vehicle maintenance (think tires).
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23 min - How Hyundai builds cars during COVID
As Hyundai’s plant in Alabama gets ready to produce the brand’s first open-bed vehicle - the Santa Cruz pick-up - there’s a lot of work to be done to both shift the production line to account for a new vehicle as well as keep tabs on coronavirus safety protocols on site and communicating with suppliers about delays.
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26 min - Trash plastic in your new car
UBQ is trying to prove to Daimler, and the rest of the auto industry, that you can take ordinary household trash and turn it into automotive-grade plastic. Tests are being conducted now, and Bigio says the growth potential is huge.
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22 min - Looking forward to Q4
For our first return guest on Transmission, we speak again with AIT’s Alan Votaw about the logistics and shipping realities today and what’s around the corner for the fourth quarter. We also discuss supply chain metrics, and the value of getting the details exactly right.
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About Transmission
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Built to chronicle the seismic shift in auto supplier networks as the industry goes cross-border and electric.