Ride: The Urban Mobility Podcast Ride: The Urban Mobility Podcast

GUESTS: Oz Choudhri, Enterprise Mobility and Oliver Mackprang, MILES MobilityABOUT THIS EPISODEAs regular listeners know, RIDE is not an automotive podcast. However, this episode is all about cars.We all know the story: despite growing congestion on our roads, cars spend something like 95% of the day parked.They’re also expensive to run and own. Indeed, for many people a car is famously the second-largest financial commitment after their house or home.So what if we could use cars when we need...

GUESTS: Mark Preston, StreetDrone; Dan Goff, Kodiak Robotics; Lukas Neckermann, PAVE Europe & Neckermann Strategic AdvisorsABOUT THIS EPISODEAutonomous passenger cars are just one aspect of autonomous vehicle development. The autonomous vehicles we discuss in this episode are autonomous trucks pulling heavy loads.Martin and guest co-host Lukas Neckermann chat to Dan Goff of Kodiak Robotics and Mark Preston from StreetDrone about the use of AV technology in first-mile, last-mile, and long-...

GUEST: Inderveer Singh, CEO, EVage MotorsABOUT THIS EPISODEEVage Motors pitches itself not as an electric commercial vehicle company, but as "a tech-driven, innovations-led, purpose-powered, new-age electric mobility solution company."And the solution it's developing is to the problem of city pollution. EVage founders - who established the company in Chandigarh, northern India in 2014 - note that although cities occupy just 5% of the world's land mass, they are home to 50% of the world's popu...

Guest: Gunnar Froh, CEO, Wunder MobilityABOUT THIS EPISODEWunder Mobility provides white label software-as-a-service (SAAS) and hardware for vehicle sharing operators with fleets of e-bikes, e-scooters, e-mopeds, and cars. Based in Hamburg, the company was founded almost a decade ago and has now provided solutions for over 200 cities around the world.We sat down with Gunnar Froh, Wunder Mobility’s founder and CEO to talk about the evolution of shared mobility, the role of electrification and ...

GUEST: Tristan Rousselle, Founder & CEO, AryballeABOUT THIS EPISODEWhat is digital nose technology? And what role could it play in future mobility?Our guest on this episode is Tristan Rousselle, founder and CEO of Aryballe, a digital olfaction firm that uses biochemical sensors, advanced optics, and machine learning to detect odour and turn it into data. This data is worth little, however, without a database behind it, and Aryballe’s USP is a searchable digital library of smells.In this e...

GUEST: Professor Carlos MorenoABOUT THIS EPISODEWhen we first conceived the Ride podcast, one of the topics at the top of the list was the 15-minute city. This episode features an interview with Professor Carlos Moreno of the Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, the man credited with conceiving the 15-minute city.Until just a few years ago, the 15-minute city was a compelling urban planning theory around which new and future mobility solutions would be developed. It was only really known about by mobi...