Reporter roundtable: San Francisco braces for robotaxi rollout and EV charging disappoints drivers

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

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4.8 • 31 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Automotive News reporters Hannah Lutz, Molly Boigon, and Pete Bigelow discuss the latest stories in the mobility realm, including Waymo and Cruise increasing their San Francisco robotaxi businesses and the EV charging problems revealed by a recent J.D. Power customer survey.

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0:27.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Shifts, a podcast about mobility. I'm your host Pete Vigolo and reporter at the Automotive News.
0:31.0	Back by popular demand today, you may remember that we did a reporter's roundtable a few
0:36.6	weeks ago, had a lot of positive feedback from our listeners about that, and given that there's so much news in the mobility space this past
0:46.4	week or so I am back today with my colleagues Molly Boegon and Hannah Lutz.
0:51.7	Welcome to the podcast.
0:54.2	Thanks, Pete.
0:55.2	Thanks for having us.
0:56.2	Absolutely.
0:57.7	We've got a lot to talk about today.
0:59.2	So let's jump right in.
1:02.6	Hannah, I know you have been covering EV chargers overall,
1:07.2	but there's more news on the EV charging front
1:11.0	this week coming from JD Power. It sounds like customers are not all that
1:16.7	excited about their charging experiences to date. Yeah that's right so JD
1:20.8	power came out with a study that looked at the EV charging
1:25.5	experience on public chargers in the first half of the year they've been doing
1:29.9	this study since 2021 and this first half results it was all time low in satisfaction
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