Bot Auto’s Xiaodi Hou takes his second stab at self-driving trucks (episode 278)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

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4.8 • 31 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The founder and CEO of Bot Auto showcases his new startup, recounts his fraught experience at TuSimple and explains what it really takes to ensure self-driving trucks are profitable. Bonus: He details his passion for music, from classical to Judas Priest.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.
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0:20.5	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.
0:28.2	My guest today on the podcast is Dr. Shoudi Ho. He's the founder and CEO of a new self-driving truck company called Bot Auto.
0:36.6	And you may remember him from his days at another self-driving truck company too simple.
0:41.3	What happened there?
0:43.1	It's not so simple.
0:44.6	Excuse my terrible pun.
0:46.4	But we'll get to that and more in just a minute with Shouty.
0:49.7	First, we have a look at this week's headlines.
0:52.2	And for that, I'm joined by my colleague Hannah Lutz.
0:55.2	Hannah, welcome.
0:55.8	How are you today?
0:56.9	Hi, Pete.
0:57.3	Doing well.
0:57.8	How about you?
0:59.0	Doing pretty well this morning here pre- Thanksgiving.
1:01.7	So short week, obviously, but still quite a number of headlines.
1:05.7	And I think many of them relate to how the incoming Trump administration is going to affect the transportation,
1:13.7	mobility, automotive worlds. Maybe first I'll start off with, there's still a lot of interest
1:19.3	in electric vehicles and in a focus on charging right now, even though we'll get to the questions
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