Here are highlights from the latest episodes of 'Daily Drive', Automotive News' weekday podcast, March 6-8, hosted by Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.
"If you rely only on calling the customer or only emailing or only texting, you're going to miss a bunch of your customers."--Fran O'Hagan, CEO of Pied Piper, on the company's PSI Internet Lead Effectiveness Study measuring the speed and quality of dealership responses to online customer inquiries
"Those constraints meant that as we evolved through those 55,000 iterations, we weren't just making something that worked; we were making something that worked and would scale."--Gene Berdichevsky, CEO of Sila, which developed its technology to improve battery range with mass production in mind from the start. Originally heard on "Shift: A Podcast About Mobility"
"It's not the charging equipment itself that's really expensive. It's the whole infrastructure project."--
Hannah Lutz, reporter covering mobility for Automotive News, on why it is so challenging and costly to install EV charging stations at dealerships
— Listen to these and other shows at autonews.com/dailydrive.