Here are highlights from the latest episodes of ‘Daily Drive’, Automotive News’ weekday podcast, Dec. 5-8, hosted by Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.
“When the auto industry trains its guns on something, that item gets smaller, more efficient, less expensive to build, and this is what’s happening now to the electric motor.”–Richard Truett, Automotive News engineering reporter, on the evolution of the electric motor
“How I saw this decision is, it’s kind of the future of the franchise system hangs in the balance here. … There’s always a better way to do a rollout like this. Always. But I don’t think we made, really, any big mistakes.”–Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, speaking with Publisher KC Crain at the Automotive News Congress in Detroit on news that almost two-thirds of the automaker’s dealers have agreed to its EV sales program
“I think everyone’s going to realize, this ICE business isn’t so bad. And we shouldn’t be in a rush just to have press releases that we’re getting out and we’re going all-electric. It makes no sense to me.”–Farley on the future of combustion-powered vehicles during the Detroit congress
“It just shows what we’ve been able to do, as something that was a question mark in our history – history going forward of, can everything survive? Everybody’s got a fighting chance. And everybody is performing, which is great.”–Mark Stewart, Stellantis North America COO, speaking at the Detroit congress on how well the automaker’s 14 brands are doing since the 2021 merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group
To listen to all the Automotive News’ ‘Daily Drive’ podcasts, go to autonews.com/dailydrive.