Here are highlights from the latest episodes of 'Daily Drive', Automotive News' weekday podcast, May 1-4, hosted by Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.
“Frankly, there has been such a flurry of existential crises in the auto industry, this has been off to the side, sort of brewing like a good cup of tea, that car companies are rethinking everything.” — Lindsay Chappell, Automotive News editor, on the industry’s shift toward carbon neutrality
“I think that the car companies probably need to look at the consumer electronics companies and see how they do it to be effective.” — Mike Ramsey, vice president for automotive and smart mobility at Gartner, on business models that are changing the industry. Originally heard on “Shift: A podcast about mobility”
“It told us kind of what we’ve known for a long time, that internal combustion engines are driving the bulk of the profits [for Ford] and that they’re losing a bunch of money on EVs.” — Michael Martinez, reporter covering Ford for Automotive News, on the automaker’s first-quarter earnings report
“We’re very bullish on this segment. We’re very bullish on the price point. We’re very bullish on the differentiation that we see in both the customer, the product proposition, the value proposition between those two. And I think we’re gonna kill it with both of these.” — Steve Majoros, Chevrolet CMO, on the brand’s big hopes for the Trax and the TrailBlazer
— Listen to these and other shows at autonews.com/dailydrive.
