'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.
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 Mi...
30 Sept 2026
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 bienni...
26 Aug 2026
Goodbye global car, hello regional auto - feat. Andrew Bergbaum, AlixPartners
According to a recent report, there are four specific issues facing automaker and supplier decision makers - and of course their engineers. The headline findings of the 23rd-annual AlixPartners Global Automotive Outlook listed these issues as the key challenges facing the global automotive industry: Vehicle affordability and associated stagnating demand;A pull-back from globalisation - and thus the end of the global car;A blurring of the energy transition and a dialling back on sp...
15 Jul 2026
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 featu...
26 May 2026
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, ...
29 Apr 2026
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 col...
25 Mar 2026
Fork in the road - US, EU, China auto policy analysis
Feat. Peter Sigal, Automotive News Europe; Sam Abuelsamid, Telemetry; Bill Russo, Automobility Ltd. In 2025, significant changes in automotive policy and strategy were introduced in the US, the EU, and China, with considerable implications for global automakers, suppliers, and consumers. In this episode of FISITA's Beyond the Car podcast, we bring together industry experts to look at the key points in each region's automotive priorities, and what they mean for auto industry stake...
27 Feb 2026
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...
28 Jan 2026
Tearing cars apart (so yours can be better) - feat. Patrick Katenkamp, A2MAC1
Automotive suppliers and vehicle manufacturers have honed their skills to assemble the parts, subsystems, and subassemblies from individual components into the vehicles that we know so well. Follow FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast on LinkedIn What they don't know is how many parts their competitors use - how they assemble and join them, how much those parts weigh, and critically, how much they cost. That's where vehicle benchmarking companies come in. They literally take vehicles apart, down...
17 Dec 2025
Small cars, big challenge, huge opportunity - feat. ACEA's Pierre Millette
Episode 3 of FISITA's Beyond the Car podcast features a conversation with Pierre Millette, the Chief Technology Officer of ACEA, the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association. Follow FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast on LinkedIn ACEA is headquartered in Brussels, directly opposite the city's famous Berlaymont building, the home of the European Commission (EC), the executive branch of the European Union (EU). We talked about the role of ACEA, and how it represents its members in discussio...
26 Nov 2025
The technology of parking - feat. Jonny Combe and Lukas Neckermann
Parking is, for most drivers, one of the most mundane and frustrating aspects of driving. But it's also one of the most complex challenges in urban mobility - one that reaches deep into issues that include public transportation, urban design, business models, technology, and sustainability. Follow FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast on LinkedIn In this episode, we discuss the business and technology of parking with Lukas Neckermann, Co-Founder of the Urban Places Lab, and Managing Director of N...
30 Oct 2025
Driver Swap: A FISITA Leadership Special
FISITA is the global alliance for automotive engineers and engineering leaders, led by the FISITA President. In 2025, the two-year rolling presidency of FISITA was passed from Mike Anderson to ChangHwan Kim. Follow FISITA's 'Beyond the Car' podcast on LinkedIn Mike is Vice President Global Battery & Propulsion Engineering at General Motors, and ChangHwan is Executive Vice President, and Head of Battery and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Development at Hyundai Motor Company. As well as discussing thei...
24 Oct 2025
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'Beyond the car' is the new FISITA podcast about the technology of getting around. Hosted by Martin Kahl, CTO of FISITA, each episode of 'Beyond the Car' 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 ...
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