GUESTS: Oz Choudhri, Enterprise Mobility and Oliver Mackprang, MILES Mobility ABOUT THIS EPISODE As regular listeners know, RIDE is not an automotive podcast. However, this episode is all about cars. We all know the story: despite growing congestion on our roads, cars spend something like 95% of the day parked. They’re also expensive to run and own…

GUESTS: Mark Preston, StreetDrone; Dan Goff, Kodiak Robotics; Lukas Neckermann, PAVE Europe & Neckermann Strategic Advisors ABOUT THIS EPISODE Autonomous passenger cars are just one aspect of autonomous vehicle development. The autonomous vehicles we discuss in this episode are autonomous trucks pulling heavy loads. Martin and guest co-host Lukas N…

GUEST: Inderveer Singh, CEO, EVage Motors ABOUT THIS EPISODE EVage Motors pitches itself not as an electric commercial vehicle company, but as "a tech-driven, innovations-led, purpose-powered, new-age electric mobility solution company." And the solution it's developing is to the problem of city pollution. EVage founders - who established the compa…

Guest: Gunnar Froh, CEO, Wunder Mobility ABOUT THIS EPISODE Wunder Mobility provides white label software-as-a-service (SAAS) and hardware for vehicle sharing operators with fleets of e-bikes, e-scooters, e-mopeds, and cars. Based in Hamburg, the company was founded almost a decade ago and has now provided solutions for over 200 cities around the w…

GUEST: Tristan Rousselle, Founder & CEO, Aryballe ABOUT THIS EPISODE What is digital nose technology? And what role could it play in future mobility? Our guest on this episode is Tristan Rousselle, founder and CEO of Aryballe, a digital olfaction firm that uses biochemical sensors, advanced optics, and machine learning to detect odour and turn it i…

GUEST: Professor Carlos Moreno ABOUT THIS EPISODE When we first conceived the Ride podcast, one of the topics at the top of the list was the 15-minute city. This episode features an interview with Professor Carlos Moreno of the Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, the man credited with conceiving the 15-minute city. Until just a few years ago, the 15-minute…

GUESTS: Chris Borroni-Bird, Afreecar; Prodip Chatterjee, Nunam; Sukhjeevan Uppal, eTukTuk ABOUT THIS EPISODE Mobility for all means just that - it shouldn't be available only to those fortunate enough to be free of the physical or financial impairments that might prevent access to mobility. Yet one billion people - an eighth of the world's populati…

GUESTS: Dan Sturges and Lukas Neckermann ABOUT THIS EPISODE Lifelong car fan and vehicle designer Dan Sturges discusses his new book, ‘Near to Far: A design for a new equitable and sustainable transportation system’. The book is both the culmination of a life in vehicle design and the automotive industry, and something a manifesto for the future of…

GUESTS: Sandra Witzel, CMO SkedGo, and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson ABOUT THIS EPISODE "Mobility for all" is an oft-used and well-intentioned phrase – but images of urban mobility and new mobility solutions rarely feature people with impaired mobility, or anyone living with a disability, raising questions about the concept of mobility for all. Peop…

GUEST: Stefan Krause, CEO, B-ON ABOUT THIS EPISODE Stefan Krause returns to Ride: The Urban Mobility Podcast for a more in-depth discussion about B-ON, the challenges and opportunities of last mile delivery and fleet electrification, and the importance on zero emission strategies of regional policy such as Europe’s regulation on combustion engines,…

GUEST: Alain Visser, Chief Executive, Lynk & Co ABOUT THIS EPISODE Our guest for this episode is Alain Visser, the founder and CEO of Lynk & Co, a car company that’s trying to do things a little differently. Lynk & Co is part of the Geely Auto Group, which itself is part of Li Shufu’s Huangzhou, China-based Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. The Group's…

GUESTS: Jona Christians, Sono Motors; Alain Visser, Lynk & Co; Marcus Welz, Hyundai Motor Europe; and Patrick Ayad, Hogan Lovells ABOUT THIS EPISODE For over a century, automakers have been selling a dream - namely, a means of mobility. But as the focus of mobility shifts from a reliance on personal transportation to a clean, zero-emissions seamles…

GUESTS: Dr Thomas Becker, BMW Group; Monica Perez Lobo, Toyota Motor Europe; Kunal Phalpher, Li-Metal. ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of the Ride podcast is brought to you in partnership with Reuters Events. It was recorded at Reuters Automotive Europe 2022 in Munich earlier this year, where Ride hosted a panel on ensuring net zero throughout the …

GUESTS: Philippe Brunet, Renault Group; Felix Reinshagen, NavVis; Dr Michael Kohnhäuser, BMW Group ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of Ride is brought to you in partnership with Reuters Events, and was recorded at Reuters Automotive Europe 2022 in Munich earlier this year. Ride was invited to moderate a discussion on producing cost-effective EVs, wi…

GUEST: YANN VINCENT, CEO OF AUTOMOTIVE CELLS COMPANY (ACC) ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode of Ride: The Urban Mobility Podcast is brought to you in partnership with Reuters Events. It was recorded at Reuters Automotive Europe 2022 in Munich, where we had the opportunity to interview Yann Vincent, the CEO of Automotive Cells Company (ACC). According…

GUESTS: Lukas Neckermann, David Woessner, Olaf Sakkers ABOUT THIS EPISODE For a consumer, the best price is no price at all. After all, free is the magic number. But we all know that nothing in life is ever really free. Free is always factored into the cost somewhere along the line. But promoting something as free hides that cost, and leads to a co…

GUEST: Augustin Guilisasti, founder and CEO of Human Forest ABOUT THIS EPISODE If you’ve spent any time in London in the last couple of years, you’ll have seen green electric bikes bearing the name Human Forest. But it’s not an exclusively London thing – as well as increasing the size of its electric bike share fleet across London, the company has …

GUESTS: Stefan Krause, B-ON, and Mark Thomas, Ridecell ABOUT THIS EPISODE Improving the efficiency of urban mobility means improving not just the way we move people, but also the way we move goods – from the shipment of everything from domestic grocery deliveries to supermarket stock to online electronics orders, there are major efficiencies to be …

GUEST: Hui Zhang, Group Vice President, Nio ABOUT THIS EPISODE As the established global automakers struggle to transition from the combustion engine to zero emission motoring, there's a growing number of well financed electric vehicle startups gaining ground in the EV marketplace, and among them, a number of Chinese automakers. Chinese EV brands a…

GUESTS: Andy Wilman, The Grand Tour; Scott Mansell, Driver61; Mat Watson, Carwow; Jack Carter, TikTok ABOUT THIS EPISODE In 2015, Top Gear was one of the most successful British television exports, YouTube seemed young and inexperienced, at just ten years old, and TikTok hadn’t even been released. Seven years later, the media landscape looks very d…

GUEST: Silvia Fischer, VP Smart Mobility, FREE NOW ABOUT THIS EPISODE Mobility super apps are something we’ve talked about before on the podcast – these are apps which combine all forms of travel in a city to enable you to plan, reserve, and pay for your journey, regardless of the mode of transport and operator. We’ve seen the likes of Uber and Lyf…

GUEST: Raoul Schmidt-Lamontain, Heidelberg's Mayor for Climate Protection, Environment and Mobility ABOUT THIS EPISODE The city of Heidelberg is a picturesque Roman city in the South-West of Germany. A university town, the city has a population of around 160,000 people, and boasts a castle, a cathedral, and an ancient stone bridge that straddles th…

GUESTS: Bonny Simi, Joby Aviation, and Robin Riedel, McKinsey ABOUT THIS EPISODE It's the stuff of childhood dreams: the flying car that slashes journey time, avoiding traffic, and taking you directly to your destination. Now, decades later, it doesn’t seem so far-fetched. In fact, there’s an entire industry building up around a new sector of fligh…

GUEST: Carl-Magnus Norden, Founder and Executive Chairman, Volta Trucks ABOUT THIS EPISODE One of the most exciting things as mobility evolves is the appearance of not only new technologies, and new business models, but also new brands. In this episode, we talk to Carl-Magnus Norden, founder and executive chairman of electric truck start-up Volta T…

GUESTS: Lance Bultena, Hogan Lovells, and Pierre Lahutte, Navya ABOUT THIS EPISODE Climate change, diversity, and human rights are three of the leading ESG issues, and they feed into one of the core aspects of contemporary business development, namely sustainability. And in the wake of COP26, Covid-19, and now the war that Russia is waging on Ukrai…

GUESTS: Hrag Sarkissian, eSkootr Championship (eSC) and Nicola Scimeca, YCOM ABOUT THIS EPISODE This year will see the birth of an all-new racing series for an all-new sport, when the eSkootr Championship kicks off at London's Printwork's on 13 and 14 May 2022. The first ever micromobility racing series will feature 30 male and female riders compet…

GUESTS: Arwed Schmidt, EasyMile; George Ivanov, Waymo; Lukas Neckermann, PAVE Europe ABOUT THIS EPISODE “Education is a key piece of the puzzle for autonomous vehicles,” says Lukas Neckermann, co-initiator of PAVE Europe. PAVE – Partners for Automated Vehicle Education – was established in the US as a coalition of industry, non-profits, and academi…

GUEST: Peter Norton, author, "Autonorama" ABOUT THIS EPISODE “AUTONORAMA—The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving” (Island Press, 2021) is the new book by Peter Norton, an associate professor at the University of Virginia. In Autonorama, Peter looks at the history of the future of high-tech driving. He begins with the automotive Utopia depicted by…

GUEST: Mujeeb Ijaz , Founder & CEO of ONE.ai ABOUT THIS EPISODE One of the major barriers to entry for anyone switching to an electric vehicle (EV) for the first time is the issue of range. In this episode, we talk to the founder and CEO of Our Next Energy (ONE.ai), the Detroit-headquartered battery startup that made headlines when it completed a 7…

GUEST: Alex Roy ABOUT THIS EPISODE Alex Roy, the outspoken ex-Cannonball Run record-holder turned autonomous vehicle (AV) advocate shares his thoughts on a wide range of AV-related topics. In this fast-paced episode, we bombard Alex with questions about the current state of autonomous technology, AV business models, safety, accessibility, jobs, con…

GUEST: NICK O'SULLIVAN, JOYRIDE ABOUT THIS EPISODE When you think of next-generation urban mobility solutions, you often think of the big e-scooter, e-bike, and ride-hailing operators that have made their way from start-ups to household names, some of them even reaching that almost mythical unicorn status with a valuation of a billion dollars or mo…

GUEST: Sam Abuelsamid, Principal Research Analyst, Guidehouse Insights ABOUT THIS EPISODE The fountain of knowledge that is Sam Abuelsamid joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about electric vehicles, ranging from raw materials to EV marketing strategies, via range, charging networks and technologies, battery swap, affordability, and repairabil…

GUEST: Daniel Barel, CEO, REE Automotive ABOUT THIS EPISODE You won't buy a REE car you. You won’t drive around in a vehicle with a REE badge on the front. But you will soon be able to ride in a vehicle built on REE modular technology, including the REECorner, a by-wire electrification technology that enables anything from a very small vehicle such…

GUEST: Eric Boullier, CEO, Circle ABOUT THIS EPISODE "I switched from 400 kilometres per hour to 70 kph" - Eric Boullier, formerly Team Principal of the Renault and Lotus F1 teams, and Racing Director of McLaren F1, is now the founder and CEO of Circle, an all-new free-floating car-sharing start-up company using purpose-built electric vehicles. Fre…

GUEST: Jim Adler, Toyota Ventures About this episode The evolution of mobility, and the rising importance of software and services are having a massive impact on the way automakers think and operate. So much so, in fact, that they know they need to offer more than just a century’s expertise in mechanical engineering and manufacturing - and that mea…

GUEST: Andy Palmer, Switch Mobility About the show Having spent 42 years in the business of developing, making, and selling vehicles, Andy Palmer is a titan of the auto industry. During his 42 year career, he rose to almost the very top of the Nissan C-suite, where he introduced a raft of vehicles, including the Nissan Leaf EV and the e-NV200 elect…

GUESTS: Pierre LaHutte, Navya and Andrew Grant, BloombergNEF About this episode Fully autonomous and electric pods that seat up to 12 or 15 people are just about the perfect embodiment of a driverless future first imagined many decades ago. But they’re already here, and in use. With a design that puts function over form, these highly configurable a…

GUESTS: Carla Bailo - Center for Automotive Research (CAR); Joost Vantomme, European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), and Sam Fiorani - AutoForecast Solutions About this episode In our trailer for this podcast series, we used the now-famous quote by Mary Barra, Chief Executive of General Motors, who said the auto industry would change m…

GUESTS: Tom Standage, The Economist and Olaf Sakkers, RedBlue Capital In this episode, Martin and Jonny are joined by the authors of two new books on the evolution and future of urban mobility. Each has taken a very different angle on urban mobility, the perfect basis for a discussion on how we got to where we are, and how we’re going to get to whe…

GUESTS: Richard Corbett of Voi Technology, Adam Norris of Pure Electric, and Kersten Heineke of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility The term "micromobility" was first coined by Horace Dediu of Micromobility Industries, and refers to minimalist personal mobility, using vehicles weighing no more than 500kg. Micromobility is now widely accepted as…

The MaaS Alliance defines Mobility as a Service ('MaaS') as “the integration of various forms of transport services into a single mobility service, accessible on demand.” MaaS may still widely be considered a new concept, but it’s been around for a good decade and a half, and appears to be on the verge of mainstream success. In this episode, we're …

About this episode As cities begin to tackle the complex issue of car-free mobility in an urban environment, there’s a growing number of new mobility solutions: shared electric scooters, shared bicycles, shared e-bikes. But there’s also a growing trend for privately owned solutions, including electric unicycles and skateboards, as well as electric …

About this episode Urban mobility is changing – fast. From new technologies and new business models, to increasing environmental and regulatory pressure, changing commuter trends, and fast-moving consumer expectations, major issues are influencing the way we get around. Connectivity, automation, and electrification are driving innovation, and share…

Welcome to Ride! In Ride: The Urban Mobility Podcast, hosts Jonny Combe and Martin Kahl will take leading mobility industry decision makers, influencers, and experts on a journey through specific topics shaping the future of urban mobility. In each episode, Martin, Jonny and special guests will discuss how a topic will affect our daily lives and bu…