Ford’s Lisa Drake on the EV, hybrid future

Shift: A podcast about mobility

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🗓️ 26 May 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Drake, Ford’s vice president of electric vehicle programs and energy supply chain, shares her outlook on the EV future amid a slowdown in sales growth and explains why systemic change is necessary to create more opportunities for women in the industry. Drake was a keynote speaker at Automotive News Leading Women conference May 21. She spoke with reporter Hannah Lutz.

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0:15.0	Hi everybody,
0:20.0	welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your
0:25.0	host and reporter at the Automotive News. We're pleased to be joined by Ford Vice
0:30.9	President of EV Programs and Energy Supply Chain, Lisa Drake today on the
0:35.8	podcast. My colleague Hannah Lutz talked to her earlier this week, but first Hannah
0:41.2	is here to chat about this week's biggest headlines.
0:45.0	Hi Hannah, how are you today?
0:46.0	Hi, Hannah, how are you today?
0:47.0	I'm doing well, how are you?
0:48.0	I'm doing great.
0:50.0	Obviously a lot going on in the EV space is always this week. I think one one of the biggest headlines that caught my eye was a story you wrote about Redwood materials partnering with with Altium. What exactly is going on there?
1:04.0	Yeah, so Altium cells which makes EV battery cells and it's a joint venture of
1:10.0	General Motors and LG Energy Solution.
1:12.8	They have become a customer of Redwood,
1:15.2	the battery recycling company.
1:17.1	And they're going to be sending all of their battery
1:19.6	production scrap to Redwood,
1:21.6	which will then recycle that scrap into usable battery materials like
1:26.4	things you might find in a cathode or anode. How big of a deal is this for Redwood? I feel like they
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