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The Intercooler

Becoming a world-class car engineer (by David Twohig) #156

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Automotive, Leisure

4.8913 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined by The Intercooler contributor David Twohig, Chief Vehicle Engineer for numerous cars including the sublime Alpine A110. David recounts his full and varied career as an automotive engineer and reveals the secret that made the A110 so special. He also discusses e-fuels, making EVs fun to drive and what it's like to work in Silicon Valley. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.

0:06.1

Hi everyone, welcome to episode 156 of the Intercooler Podcast with me, Dan Prosser and

0:11.0

Andrew Frank, my co-host.

0:13.0

We're joined by a guest this week, a TI contributor,

0:15.7

one of our writers David Tuig,

0:18.5

who is a phenomenally experienced and highly regarded automotive engineer in the episode I explain much more about his background but he talks about his career

0:29.4

We touch on EU 2035 so the Petrol and Diesel Band coming in 2025 and the e-fuels exemption.

0:38.5

And we look ahead and wonder what the landscape might look like in Europe in 2035 and beyond.

0:45.0

David's career has been fascinating, really varied.

0:48.0

He's done sports cars, he's done EVs,

0:50.3

he's been involved in autonomous cars,

0:51.8

so we talk about all of that stuff. He's a really good

0:56.9

storyteller and he's a brilliant writer as well. So if you haven't read his stuff on the

1:01.4

Intercola app and website, you should go and look at it now.

1:04.4

He's great value.

1:06.3

And if you enjoy the episode, please rate and review it.

1:09.2

It really, really helps.

1:11.4

And while you're doing that, you can just hit the follow button or hit the

1:14.2

subscribe button wherever you listen to the podcast that helps us find a bigger

1:17.8

audience and it means we can do more and more with the podcast so thank you

1:21.6

very much and enjoy the episode.

1:23.0

David Tuig, I don't do many clever things,

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