Michigan’s Chief Mobility Officer on the State of Mobility (Episode 52)
Shift: A podcast about mobility
Automotive News
4.6 • 37 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, reporter at the Automotive News and your host. |
| 0:15.6 | Hi everybody, this is Leslie Allen. I'm the editor of Shift magazine. |
| 0:19.8 | And it's Alexa St. John, covering tech and suppliers. |
| 0:23.6 | Joining us today on the podcast is Trevor Paul, |
| 0:26.3 | the chief mobility officer of the state of Michigan. |
| 0:29.6 | It's a brand new position that encompasses |
| 0:31.7 | a lot of different projects helping to keep Michigan at the forefront of mobility and electrification. |
| 0:39.4 | Alexa, I know when we talked to Trevor we had a really wide-ranging conversation |
| 0:44.7 | curious what stuck out to you and give us a little tease of what our |
| 0:49.0 | listeners will hear here in a few short minutes. |
| 0:51.5 | I was really excited actually to speak with Trevor just a couple of weeks after he was officially named Chief mobility officer. Obviously he's had a lot of experience with the state of Michigan and with Planet M and |
| 1:04.5 | E. D.C. of course, but we're going to hear a lot about his efforts in really bridging |
| 1:11.9 | Michigan's efforts towards the future of mobility not only within the state but also with Silicon Valley and then key players, you know in Tel Aviv in Israel. |
| 1:22.0 | So lots of lots of exciting things on his plate. |
| 1:26.0 | Again he is only a couple weeks into his new role here but really you know it sounds like |
| 1:30.6 | he has quite a few goals for the future of mobility here in the |
| 1:34.8 | state for the next 10 years and he's looking towards 2030 how to bridge |
| 1:40.6 | everything that the state and really Detroit especially has to offer and you know it's a really pivotal time I think to take what so much of what is our core |
| 1:52.0 | traditional automotive industry expertise and bridge that with all of the newcomers that are attracted to the state, all of the mobility solutions startups that have interest here and so you know I'm really |
| 2:08.7 | excited to to keep up with Trevor over the years and and see all of this come to fruition. |
| 2:15.7 | Yeah, one of the things that struck me about our conversation with Trevor was just how he |
| 2:20.0 | emphasized that state's efforts are that you might think are autocentric, |
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