Beyond the Car - a FISITA podcast

FISITA (UK) Limited

'Beyond the Car' is a FISITA podcast about the technology and business of getting around. Hosted by FISITA CTO Martin Kahl, 'Beyond the Car ' explores cutting-edge developments in the evolution of mobility.   Each episode will feature thoughtful conversations with leading engineers and engineering leaders, and respected industry experts involved in the business and technology of mobility.    In 'Beyond the Car', we'll feature guests from across the car industry - vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, and other stakeholders - but we'll also be talking to those developing the technology that supports the commercial vehicle industry, motorsport, supply chain and logistics, new mobility providers, those involved in parking, and public transport, and anyone else associated with the movement of people and goods.

  1. 1 day ago

    The new automotive landscape: Asia, Europe, North America - feat. ACEA, CAR Group, and Gasgoo

    North America, Europe, Asia - three regions of the world with different mobility needs and different automotive heritages that for a long time made up the automotive world, but are now diverging to create a new normal for the once global auto industry.  In this episode of FISITA's Beyond the Car podcast, I'm joined by Tina Zhou, the CEO and editor-in-chief of Shanghai-based Gasgoo, Elizabeth Krear, CEO of the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Centre for Automotive Research, or CAR, and Pierre Millette, CTO of the Brussels-based European Automobile Manufacturers Association, ACEA.  In this episode, we discussed: the outlook of the traditional automotive markets, with Europe and North America looking at a new normal of lower annual sales than they enjoyed a decade or so ago - and China preparing for a decline in 2026 after record sales"China speed", the implications for the Chinese auto industry, for vehicle manufacturers and suppliers from the rest of the world, and why it's critical for stakeholder from the rest of the world to quickly come to grips with "China speed"the big regional trends that sometimes hide distinct local characteristics within those regions, driven by market conditions, regulation, and policyAbout the guests: Tina Zhou, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Gasgoo Xiaoying (Tina) Zhou | LinkedIn Elizabeth Krear, President and CEO Center for Automotive Research  Elizabeth Krear | LinkedIn Pierre Millette, Chief Technology Officer, ACEA Pierre-Olivier Millette | LinkedIn Get in touch! Follow FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast on LinkedIn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Podcast website: Beyond the Car Podcast - FISITA You can listen to FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast wherever you get your podcasts. For more information about FISITA, head to FISITA.com - and to learn more about the 'Beyond the Car' podcast, you can contact us at info@fisita.com. Thank you to Martyn Strong for production.

    The new automotive landscape: Asia, Europe, North America - feat. ACEA, CAR Group, and Gasgoo
  2. 30 Sept

    Embracing the complexities of mobility - feat. FISITA President and FISITA CEO

    In this episode, we talk to FISITA President ChangHwan Kim, who leads the FISITA executive board, and Chris Mason, Chief Executive of FISITA, the global alliance of automotive engineers. Over two separate interviews, ChangHwan and Chris discuss the latest developments at FISITA, thoughts on some of the major issues facing the global automotive industry, and their ambitions for the 2026 FISITA World Mobility Summit, which takes place in November in Seoul, Korea.  Summit is FISITA's biennial leadership event which this year runs under the title, "Embracing the complexities of mobility". In mobility, the end goal is rarely achieved through one technology or another. The answer, as former General Motors RD Vice President Larry Burns famously emphasized, lies in "the power of and"  - hence the need to embrace the complexities of mobility. To learn more about the FISITA Summit, check out fisita.com/summit About the guests ChangHwan Kim is Executive Vice President at Hyundai Motor Company, where he heads up the Electrification Energy Solutions Tech Unit covering Battery and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Development.  Connect with ChangHwan on LinkedIn Chris Mason is Chief Executive, FISITA.  Connect with Chris on LinkedIn Get in touch! Follow FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast on LinkedIn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Podcast website: Beyond the Car Podcast - FISITA You can listen to FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast wherever you get your podcasts. For more information about FISITA, head to FISITA.com - and to learn more about the 'Beyond the Car' podcast, you can contact us at info@fisita.com. Thank you to Martyn Strong for production.

    Embracing the complexities of mobility - feat. FISITA President and FISITA CEO
  3. 15 Jul

    Factory to forecourt: The moving parts of automotive logistics - feat. Maersk’s Achim Glass

    In this episode of Beyond the Car, we look at one of the key aspects of mobility: the movement of goods.  Logistics service providers keep the automotive value chain moving by orchestrating the flow of parts, vehicles, and materials from supplier to production line to customer, ensuring factories received the right parts exactly when and where they're needed, and customers received the vehicles they ordered on the day they were told it would be at the dealership.  This episode features two interviews, presenting differing perspectives in order to get a sense of the challenges, innovations, and strategic decisions that influence the movement of finished vehicles, parts and materials through an increasingly complex global supply chain. You'll hear first from Christopher Ludwig, Chief Content Officer at Automotive Logistics Magazine and the Ultima Media Group behind that publication, among others; you'll then hear from Achim Glass, an automotive logistics industry expert, Head of Sales Automotive for Northern Europe at AP Moller Maersk, who talked about the challenges and opportunities faced by automotive suppliers, vehicle manufacturers, and logistics service providers, and why Maersk joined FISITA. About the guests Christopher Ludwig - Chief Content Officer, Automotive Logistics Magazine and Ultima Media Connect with Christopher on LinkedIn Achim Glass - Head of Sales Automotive (North Europe Continent), A.P. oller Maersk Connect with Achim on LinkedIn Get in touch! Follow FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast on LinkedIn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Podcast website: Beyond the Car Podcast - FISITA You can listen to FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast wherever you get your podcasts. For more information about FISITA, head to FISITA.com - and to learn more about the 'Beyond the Car' podcast, you can contact us at info@fisita.com. Thank you to Martyn Strong for production.

    Factory to forecourt: The moving parts of automotive logistics - feat. Maersk’s Achim Glass
  4. 26 May

    Braking point: How brake tech shapes the future of mobility - feat. Brembo and IDIADA

    In the complex world of automotive technology, there’s so much more to stopping than brakes—and there’s so much more to brakes than stopping.  In this episode of FISITA's Beyond the Car Podcast, we're talking about the evolution of brake technology, from a practical and necessary safety device, to an intelligent system that's become central to the successful implementation of next-generation vehicle technology. Olivier Coppin, Vice President of Innovation at Brembo, and Fabio Squadrani, Senior Manager, Brake Technology at Applus+IDIADA, discuss advances in brake and chassis technology, the influence of megatrends such as electrification, software defined vehicle, artificial intelligence, and automation, as well as the ongoing corner module conundrum: will it ever happen? Guests Olivier Coppin - VP Innovation, Brembo LinkedIn Fabio Squadrani - Senior Manager, Braking Systems at Applus+ IDIADA LinkedIn More information about the FISITA Advanced Chassis Technology Expert Group: Expert Group – Advanced Chassis Technology – FISITA Get in touch! Follow FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast on LinkedIn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Podcast website: Beyond the Car Podcast - FISITA You can listen to FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast wherever you get your podcasts. For more information about FISITA, head to FISITA.com - and to learn more about the 'Beyond the Car' podcast, you can contact us at info@fisita.com. Thank you to Martyn Strong for production.

    Braking point: How brake tech shapes the future of mobility - feat. Brembo and IDIADA
  5. 29 Apr

    Race to road: Why automakers invest in motorsport - feat. Pascal Vasselon, Toyota Racing

    “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday” – so goes the motorsport-related marketing mantra, coined to indicate that racing success can help move road cars off dealership forecourts. The pinnacle of automotive engineering, motorsport fuels rapid technology development, with proven technology transfers from race to road. What an automaker does at the track may seem a world away from anything in mainstream automotive, but the real power of motorsport is that teams are not constrained in the way their colleagues are in the mainstream automotive industry. They can push boundaries harder, fail faster, and develop solutions quicker - solutions that can then be fed back into passenger car development. In this episode of FISITA’s Beyond the Car podcast, we explore the wider reasons automakers invest in motorsport with Pascal Vasselon, Vice President of Toyota Racing. Connect with Pascal on LinkedIn. Learn more about Toyota Racing here. Get in touch! Follow FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast on LinkedIn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Podcast website: Beyond the Car Podcast - FISITA You can listen to FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast wherever you get your podcasts. For more information about FISITA, head to FISITA.com - and to learn more about the 'Beyond the Car' podcast, you can contact us at info@fisita.com. Thank you to Martyn Strong for production.

    Race to road: Why automakers invest in motorsport - feat. Pascal Vasselon, Toyota Racing
  6. 27 Feb

    Driving hands-free across America - feat. Alex Roy

    How far can a vehicle drive itself without human intervention? In this episode of FISITA's Beyond the Car podcast, we talk about just that: long-distance, hands-free driving. Motivated by decades of record-breaking road trip experience and enthusiasm, and inspired by the idea of driving from west coast to east coast with zero human intervention, our guest on this episode joins us to talk about his recent trip from Los Angeles to New York City in a Tesla in Full Self-Drive mode. As you'll hear, Alex Roy is a huge fan of human driving, and of automated vehicle technology. He's also very competitive, curious, analytical, and methodical - all the things you need to be to sit in a car that drives itself 3,081 miles from Redondo Beach in LA to midtown Manhattan in NYC - that’s 4,958km, in a time of 58 hours and 22 minutes, all without human intervention. We discuss the background to the challenge and the history of coast to coast driving, and Alex tells some great stories from the trip he completed in January 2026. He also shares valuable insight into automated driving, having advised at a strategic level right at the top of an AV company, namely Argo AI, and from the perspective of a regular automated vehicle user. Connect with Alex Roy New Industry Venture Capital: NIVC LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alexroy Get in touch! Follow FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast on LinkedIn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Podcast website: Beyond the Car Podcast - FISITA You can listen to FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast wherever you get your podcasts. For more information about FISITA, head to FISITA.com - and to learn more about the 'Beyond the Car' podcast, you can contact us at info@fisita.com. Thank you to Martyn Strong for production.

    Driving hands-free across America - feat. Alex Roy

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'Beyond the Car' is a FISITA podcast about the technology and business of getting around. Hosted by FISITA CTO Martin Kahl, 'Beyond the Car ' explores cutting-edge developments in the evolution of mobility.   Each episode will feature thoughtful conversations with leading engineers and engineering leaders, and respected industry experts involved in the business and technology of mobility.    In 'Beyond the Car', we'll feature guests from across the car industry - vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, and other stakeholders - but we'll also be talking to those developing the technology that supports the commercial vehicle industry, motorsport, supply chain and logistics, new mobility providers, those involved in parking, and public transport, and anyone else associated with the movement of people and goods.