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06:15 – Acura MDX
29:42 – Automotive Sales
41:38 – Is Volvo a strong enough brand to take on Tesla?
45:48 – Are EVs getting ahead of infrastructure?

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Nicole Wakelin, Freelance; Gary Vasilash, on Automotive; John McElroy, Autoline.tv

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Internet Premiere: Friday, 02/26 @ 11:30am ET
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PANEL:
Tim Jackson, Colorado Auto Dealers Association
Andy Daga, Momentum Dynamics
John McElroy, Autoline.tv

Automakers must meet government mandates for Zero Emission Vehicles. They’re investing billions of dollars to develop battery electric cars. Yet last year EV sales came to only 1.6% of all vehicles sold. This show explores the challenges and opportunities to selling more electric vehicles.

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06:30 – Redesigning Auto Shows
36:58 – The High Price of EV Recalls
49:07 – New U.S. Mail Truck
54:10 – Lucid: $62 billion. $62 billion!!!
59:55 – Cherokee, Grand & Otherwise: Change the Name?

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Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press; Gary Vasilash, Gardner Business Media; John McElroy, Autoline.tv

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Internet Premiere: Friday, 02/19 @ 10:00am ET
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PANEL:
Joe McCabe, AutoForecast Solutions
Julie Fream, OESA
Scott Craig, ON Semiconductor
John McElroy, Autoline.tv

Automakers around the world are struggling with a shortage of computer chips that is bringing their assembly lines to a grinding halt.  How did the industry get caught with this shortage, how is it trying to cope, and how will the problem get resolved? Our panel of experts explains what’s going on, and what needs to happen.

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PANEL:
Christie Schweinsberg, Wards Intelligence; Gary Vasilash, Gardner Business Media; John McElroy, Autoline.tv

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03:42 – 2021 Ford Raptor
41:06 – Raptor VS. TRX
48:06 – Nissan’s new Frontier & Pathfinder: Good signs for a struggling brand?
58:20 – NADA: The Move to Electric Vehicles
1:03:04 – AV Testing in CA
1:07:25 – Rivian News

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Mark Williams, Freelance; Gary Vasilash, Gardner Business Media; John McElroy, Autoline.tv

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Internet Premiere: Tuesday, 02/09 @ 11:00am ET
Detroit Public TV: Sunday, 02/21 @ 10:30am ET

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Maryann Keller, Maryann Keller & Associates
Steve Finlay, Freelance
John McElroy, Autoline.tv

Car dealers are creative and adaptive. They adjusted to lockdowns and social distancing caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and learned how to maintain sales with much lower levels of inventory. Auto analyst and retail expert Maryann Keller explains that they’re also going to outlast EV startups who try to sell direct to consumers.

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01:02 – This Day In History
03:38 – Cadillac V-Series Blackwing
40:50 – January sales: Is the market back?
48:48 – Ford & Google: Like GM & Microsoft? Who will get Amazon?
1:01:25 – Tesla’s real chip problem: Prelude to an industry issue?

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Chris Paukert, Roadshow by CNET; Gary Vasilash, Gardner Business Media; John McElroy, Autoline.tv

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Internet Premiere: Friday, 01/29 @ 10:30am ET
Detroit Public TV: Sunday, 02/14 @ 10:30am ET

PANEL:
Jeff Dokho, Research Director, United Auto Workers
Keith Naughton, Bloomberg News
Paul Eisenstein, TheDetroitBureau.com
John McElroy, Autoline.tv

The auto industry is transforming itself to make electric vehicles. But EVs need 30% fewer labor hours to manufacture and could eliminate tens of thousands of jobs. The UAW is keenly aware of this and is preparing for an all-electric future. Jeff Dokho, the director of the Research Department at the UAW, lays out the union’s plans to prepare for it.

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TOPICS:
02:48 – A Hack Proof Car
32:55 – This Day In History
41:35 – Nikola & Navistar
43:15 – GM: No More Piston Engines after 2035
47:41 – Biden Adminisration: Federal Vehicles Will be EVs
52:47 – Electric Pickup Predictions
54:15 – Post Office Vehicles
57:12 – Tesla vs. Everything Else

PANEL:
Henry Payne, The Detroit News; Gary Vasilash, Gardner Business Media; John McElroy, Autoline.tv

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