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Latest Episodes

45. Everybody Still Hates Tesla, Part 2
December 20, 2024

Has any company made a bigger impact on the automotive sector in the last decade than Tesla? Love them or hate them, in electrification, auto dealership structure and passenger car autonomy Tesla has

44. Everybody Still Hates Tesla, Part 1
September 26, 2024

Has any company made a bigger impact on the automotive sector in the last decade than Tesla? Love them or hate them, Tesla has masterfully used the extraordinary latitude its been afforded by investo

43. Georges Massing, Head of Automated Driving, Mercedes-Benz AG.
July 30, 2024

Can your AI make life-and-death decisions? Mercedes-Benzs Drive Pilot can. Does your AI vendor take legal responsibility for those life-and-death decisions? Mercedes does. Drive Pilot is the only c

42. The Future of Transportation: Insights from Reilly Brennan of Trucks VC
June 19, 2024

Reilly Brennan, author of the must-read Future of Transportation newsletter and partner at Trucks VC, returns to Tech Cars Machines for a discussion on recent trends in transportation investing. We di

41. Marc Amblard, Managing Director, Orsay Consulting
May 20, 2024

China, EVs, vehicles that are too big and too heavy, autonomy, the future of transportation and lessons from history. We cover hot news and trends in all these sectors with Marc Amblard, Partner at O

40. Savi Baveja, President, 3D Printing & Chief Incubation Officer, HP, Inc.
April 30, 2024

How do you start a new business in a large corporation and quickly scale it to hundreds of millions of revenues? Savi Baveja, President of 3D Printing and Chief Incubation Officer at HP, Inc. told me

39. Chris Creed, DOE Loan Programs Office: big loans, EVs, batteries, energy transition, US infrastructure, lithium, commercial liftoff
April 01, 2024

Interested in a piece of a $400 billion pie from which Tesla once took a $465MM bite? Chris Creed, Chief Investment Officer of the Department of Energys Loan Programs Office spoke to me about how t

38. Dr. Jeffrey Goldmeer, Global Hydrogen Value Chain Leader, GE Vernova
March 14, 2024

GEs fuels guy and current Global Hydrogen Value Chain Leader at GE Vernova, Dr. Jeffrey Goldmeer, shares his 23 years of experience and insight on energy generation, energy transition, the electric

37. Neil Banwart, CIO, Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen
March 04, 2024

You get a billion! And you get a billion! And YOU get a billion! (repeat 4 more times). The Department of Energy recently announced seven recipients of a total $7 billion who will build hydrogen hubs

36. Peter Vaughan Schmidt, CEO, Torc Robotics (Daimler)
February 12, 2024

Cars that drive themselves not enough for you? How about trucks? 80,000 pound trucks. Flying down the highway. Peter Vaughan Schmidt, CEO of Torc Robotics, an independent autonomy holding of Daimler