Autoline This Week #2616 - The Only Book About Every Automotive Law
You cannot believe how many laws regulate the auto industry. So many that it’s almost impossible to keep track of. But two legal eagles, Kev...
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Autoline This Week is the first stop for auto executives, insiders and consumers looking for the latest automotive news. Each week John McElroy, one of the deans of the Detroit automotive pr...
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20 of 615 episodesAutoline This Week #2615 - Uh-Oh, Now It’s A Shortage Of Headlamp Engineers
You’ve heard of the chip shortage that crippled automotive production. But you probably haven’t heard about the critical shortage of headlam...
Autoline This Week #2614 - Lordstown Motors Goes Asset Light, Develops Skateboard Trucks
Lordstown Motors changed its business plan. Instead of building electric trucks, it’s going to have Foxconn build them for it—in the plant t...
Autoline This Week #2613 - Suppliers Give Toyota Thumbs Up, Stellantis Thumbs Down
Automotive suppliers have strong opinions about the automakers they sell parts and services to. Some automakers have great relations with th...
Autoline This Week #2612 - Electric Roads Solve EV Range At No Taxpayer Cost
Powered roads, where EVs pick up electric power from the road as they drive, is a dream that goes back decades. But now a convergence of tec...
Autoline This Week #2611 - A Conversation with GM President Mark Reuss
Every year the SAE Foundation chooses a recipient for its Leadership Award. This year it chose GM President Mark Reuss. At the awards banque...
Autoline This Week #2610 - Foreign Automakers In Trouble In China
Five years ago, foreign automakers saw China as an unending source of growth and profits. Not anymore. Today, companies like Volkswagen and...
Autoline This Week #2609 - Russian Invasion Upends The Auto Industry
In addition to the terrible loss of lives, the tragic lines of refugees and brutal war crimes, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is upending the...
Autoline This Week #2608 - Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur? Here’s What You Need To Know
It takes a certain type of person to be an entrepreneur. But even those people need to know their strengths and weaknesses and how to avoid...
Autoline This Week #2607 - Toyota's Chief Scientist Lays Out Its EV Strategy
Gill Pratt, Toyota’s Chief Scientist, says we’re going to hear a lot more about the company’s move into electric cars. Up to now Toyota’s pu...
Autoline This Week #2606 - EV Battery Cost Falling To $50-60/kWh
Batteries for electric cars are extremely expensive. But Tal Sholklapper, the CEO of Voltaiq, a battery design consultancy, says that cost i...
Autoline This Week #2605 - Auto Shows Can Really Help Sell EVs
Despite the perception that auto shows are losing their appeal, Foresight Research says the public is just as interested in auto shows as it...
Autoline This Week #2604 - Three Companies That Can Take Your Automotive Idea from Concept to Production
Multimatic, PEM Motion and Ettractive are three Canadian companies with expertise in turning ideas into reality. Here’s their advice on what...
Autoline This Week #2603 - GM Wants To Sell You Other Automakers' (Used) Cars
General Motors is jumping into online retailing with both feet. It’s launching a web portal called CarBravo to sell used cars, including non...
Autoline This Week #2602 - Goodbye Rust Belt. Hello Mobility Revolution.
They used to call it the Rust Belt. But Midwest states like Michigan are actually at the leading edge of a revolution in new mobility. Smoke...
Autoline This Week #2601 - Myths, Urban Legends and Misinformation About Public EV Charging
The public is hyper aware that a wave of electric cars is about to hit the market. But the public doesn’t know a lot about the public EV cha...
Autoline This Week #2530 - CES: A Magnet For Automotive Technology
CES is renowned for being a mecca for tech companies. Even so, for 2022 it’s attracting a record amount of automotive exhibitors and speaker...
Autoline This Week #2529 - Solving The Tech Shortage
There is a critical shortage of automotive technicians in the US. Car dealerships, body shops and automotive repair facilities can’t find th...
Autoline This Week #2528 - Revolutionizing Product Development With Digital Twins
The auto industry is learning how to slash the time it takes to develop new cars and components with a technology called Digital Twins. By s...
Autoline This Week #2527 - Can The U.S. Compete With China?
Automakers are heavily investing in EVs. The Biden Administration wants 50% of all new cars to be electric by 2030. Yet, the US depends on C...