Ford’s chief futurist on consumer behavior in a post-pandemic world (Episode 40)
Shift: A podcast about mobility
Automotive News
4.6 • 37 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Shift is brought to you by Deloitte. The automotive industry is evolving and fast. |
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| 0:30.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow reporter at the Automotive News and your host. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi, I'm Leslie Allen. I am the editor of Shift the magazine. |
| 0:41.0 | And this is Alexis St. John covering tech and suppliers. |
| 0:44.7 | Joining us in just a minute or two will be Cheryl Connolly, chief futurist at |
| 0:50.0 | Ford Motor Company. We will be talking about consumer behavior and some |
| 0:57.4 | projections about how the auto industry in particular and the world in general all move forward from the current health crisis. |
| 1:08.0 | But first speaking about a future fraught with uncertainty, Alexa, you have a story. about some of these specific developments in the |
| 1:13.0 | Alexa you have a story in this week's automotive news |
| 1:17.6 | about some of these specific developments |
| 1:20.9 | in the automated vehicle and mobility realm that have kind of been hard hit by some of the ripple effects from COVID. |
| 1:29.0 | What's going on out there? |
| 1:31.0 | Pete, this episode is very timely for the story that I've been working on over the last couple of days. I mean essentially you know the different trends that we've seen in the future of mobility from AV to shared to EV. A lot of those things are now moving into |
| 1:49.2 | the crosshairs of this |
| 1:55.0 | pandemic is over, right? You know, |
| 1:57.0 | technologies that companies have been promoting for months |
| 2:01.0 | to a couple of years now. |
| 2:03.2 | All of these technologies that we've talked about on the show |
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