Beijing auto jamboree ponders battery conundrum
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:23.6 | The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Rogers News. |
| 0:31.6 | The world's biggest carmakers are descending on Beijing this week. The theme, the future of intelligence, couldn't be more timely. |
| 0:41.1 | With oil hovering around $100 a barrel, the industry faces a brutal dilemma. Will soaring prices |
| 0:48.2 | turbocharged demand for electric vehicles, or will squeezed consumers simply stop buying cars altogether? |
| 0:55.8 | That's what we're digging into in this week's Viewsroom. |
| 1:00.7 | It's Amy. |
| 1:02.0 | And I'm Liam, your guest host today. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm stepping in because Jonathan is fast asleep in New York because we're doing an Asia-focused |
| 1:08.5 | podcast this week. |
| 1:10.3 | So this is Viewsroom, your weekly |
| 1:11.9 | dive into the biggest stories in business, finance and economics. So Amy, last week you were |
| 1:17.3 | talking about the IMF and the World Bank and the Washington Spring meetings in DC. We're now |
| 1:24.0 | recording this on Monday, April the 20th. So any oil price references are dated to that |
| 1:31.0 | point. And we're going to talk about another strand of the energy crisis, particularly we're |
| 1:36.6 | turning to the automotive market, which is an industry which, as our guest has written, |
| 1:41.3 | could be completely upended by what we've been seeing in oil markets recently. |
| 1:45.7 | Yes, absolutely. So I think if I were one of the CEOs attending this gathering in Beijing, I'd probably be saying how great electric vehicles are, how, you know, we don't need to focus on diesel and petrol anymore, that this is the future. |
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