Best The War on Cars, LLC Podcasts (2024)

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TEASER: Walking 4,000 Miles with Holden Ringer 3:33

2h ago3:33

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This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, become a Patreon supporter of The War on Cars. This month’s exclusive Patreon bonus episode is an interview with Holden Ringer, who recently finished walking more than 4,000 miles across the country from the starting point of LaPush, Wa…

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Vehicular Cycling and John Forester, Part 2 1:07:04

1h ago1:07:04

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NOTE: This is part two of a two-part episode. To hear both parts right now and without ads, become a Patreon supporter of The War on Cars. In part two of our deep dive on John Forester and his 1976 book Effective Cycling, we take a look at the paltry data and research underpinning the alleged safety benefits of vehicular cycling and the long-term i…

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Building An Electric Sports Car That Ignites Maximum Emotion. Toni Piech, Founder and Tobias Moers, CEO, Piech Automotive 55:15

5d ago55:15

55:15

It is no secret that electric cars are fast - very fast. But for many drivers, EVs like Tesla or Lucid - even Porsche - do not seem to fuel quite the same emotion as sports cars powered by internal combustion engines. To borrow the French term, the piece de resistance seems to be missing. This makes today's buyers ask: What is the point of driving …

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Vehicular Cycling and John Forester, Part 1 1:07:51

24d ago1:07:51

1:07:51

NOTE: This is part one of a two-part episode. To hear both parts right now and without ads, become a Patreon supporter of The War on Cars. "Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles." That quote is the core philosophy of John Forester, the father of vehicular cycling. Forester, who died in 2020, was a major figure in t…

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Critical Mass Nairobi with Cyprine Odada 24:17

1M ago24:17

24:17

Cyprine Odada is the Executive Director of Critical Mass Nairobi and an urban planner specializing in active mobility. Ever since founding the Kenyan capital’s chapter of Critical Mass, the largest gathering of non-competitive cyclists in Africa, Cyprine has helped get more people on bikes from different neighborhoods, ages, and social and economic…

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Killed by a Traffic Engineer 47:51

19d ago47:51

47:51

Because it has the word “engineering” right in there, the field of traffic engineering is something most people assume is governed by science and rational rules. But a new book, written by a traffic engineer himself, argues that is not the case at all. In Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportatio…

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What's Web 3.0 & How Will It Make Our (Automotive) Lives Better? Tram Vo/Co-founder/MOBI & Marguerite Watanabe/Founder/Connections Insights 27:41

23d ago27:41

27:41

In his best-selling book, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari describes the most important feature that separates human beings from all other species on the planet: Imagination. We have the ability to imagine something that does not (yet) exist, communicate the concept to others and persuade them to believe it. As a concrete example, he cites the limited li…

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Women's Freedom to Ride 26:28

1M ago26:28

26:28

Why don’t more women ride bicycles in London? The advocacy group London Cycling Campaign wanted to know, and so they asked. What they discovered was disturbing: Among more than a thousand women surveyed, nine out of ten said they experienced verbal abuse and aggression while biking. Ninety-three percent said drivers had used vehicles to intimidate …

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Kathy Hochul's Congestion Pricing Flip-Flop Fiasco 55:33

2M ago55:33

55:33

In this emergency episode, we discuss New York State Governor Kathy Hochul's 11th-hour decision to "indefinitely suspend" congestion pricing, the program that would have charged drivers to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. Her move, announced in a prerecorded video on Wednesday, June 5th, came mere weeks before congestion pricing was set to launch…

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TEASER: The War on The War on Cars 3:42

2M ago3:42

3:42

This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, become a Patreon supporter of The War on Cars. For this month's exclusive Patreon bonus episode, we take a look at three states that have attempted to ban everything from bus rapid transit to taxing driving by vehicle miles traveled. Wh…

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What Exactly Is A Software-Defined Vehicle? John Wall, SVP and Head of QNX Engineering, Product and Operations, Blackberry QNX 47:24

2M ago47:24

47:24

By now you may have heard the term software defined vehicle. But what does it mean? Tesla was the first to make one. Chinese automakers like NIO and Xpeng followed quickly. Most Western OEMs today are still figuring out how to make them. But what exactly is a software-defined vehicle? How do they work? Today I am joined on the Driving With Dunne po…

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Winter Cycling in Oil Country 1:43:19

2M ago1:43:19

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An unlikely cycling revolution is happening in one of the coldest big cities on the planet: Edmonton, Alberta. Despite freezing temps, lots of sprawl, big trucks and an economy built on pulling oil out of the Albertan tar sands, the Western Canadian city is in the midst of a four-year, $100 million CAD investment in active transportation that will …

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When Driving Is Not an Option with Anna Zivarts 40:55

3M ago40:55

40:55

The United States has built a transportation system centered around automobiles. But one-third of the nation’s population can’t drive, whether because of disability, age, financial hardship, immigration status, or any of a host of other factors. Those tens of millions of people are often invisible to planners and elected officials, and that’s why A…

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TEASER: Dodge’s “Deeply Weird” Pitch for Electric Muscle Cars 7:05

3M ago7:05

7:05

***This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, become a Patreon supporter of The War on Cars.*** We were getting ready to record our "Cybertrash" episode with Ed Niedermeyer last month when Ed happened to bring to our attention to this "deeply weird" ten minute-long extended car …

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The Secret Superpower of Chinese Automakers? Dr. Ilaria Mazzocco, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 39:34

3M ago39:34

39:34

Dr. Ilaria Mazzocco and her colleagues at CSIS found that Chinese subsidies to companies in strategic industries are more than twice as high as in other countries. The numbers are not insignificant. This week, we learned that BYD secured some $3.4 billion in subsidies in 2023 alone. As a group Chinese automakers have benefited from tens of billions…

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Tesla Cybertrash with Ed Niedermeyer 56:03

4M ago56:03

56:03

Elon Musk’s gigantic, stainless steel, 1980s sci fi movie–inspired Cybertruck is starting to show up on city streets. Perhaps you’ve had the misfortune of seeing one rolling through your neighborhood. If not, you’ve almost certainly seen some of the vehicle’s many truly epic fails on the Internet. The Cybertruck might not work very well, but it sti…

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The Texas Freeway Fight with Megan Kimble 40:14

4M ago40:14

40:14

In the 20th century, planners and policymakers smashed Interstate highways through the middle of every major city in the United States. In the 21st century, we understand the many ways that urban freeways were economic, environmental, and racial justice disasters. And yet, incredibly, the State of Texas is planning to spend over $64 billion in the …

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The Giant Battle Over The Critical Minerals That Power Our Future: Ernest Scheyder, Author, The War Below. 45:20

4M ago45:20

45:20

The world is in the midst of a monumental transition from fossil fuels to critical minerals. Those critical minerals, like lithium, cobalt and nickel, are the key ingredients in the batteries that power electric cars, cell phones, electric lawn mowers and more. Today, the minerals are extracted from the ground at mining sites around the world. Mass…

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Car Insurance is Too Cheap 45:01

5M ago45:01

45:01

It has never been more expensive to insure a car in the United States. Today, the average annual premium for full coverage is more than $2,500, up from more than $1,700 just a few years ago. There are a lot of reasons for this—including the high price of cars, supply chain issues, and the rising frequency and severity of crashes—but no matter how y…

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US-China: Bigger Storms Ahead. Jim McGregor, Chairman Greater China, APCO Worldwide 46:03

4M ago46:03

46:03

By now everyone understands US-China relations are at their worst in 50 years. There is mutual distrust. And mutual animosity. China complains bitterly that America is trying to keep it down. America, meanwhile, is wary of China's new-found aggressiveness. Are the world's two most powerful countries heading for a showdown? If so, how should compani…

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Live from New York with Bernie Wagenblast 45:35

5M ago45:35

45:35

In January, we held our third annual live show at Caveat on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. We were so thrilled to be in the same room as so many listeners and friends of the podcast. We were also happy to welcome Bernie Wagenblast, the voice of the New York City subway system, to The War on Cars. Bernie’s voice is instantly recognizable to millions o…

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TEASER: Walking 4,000 Miles with Holden Ringer 3:33

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Vehicular Cycling and John Forester, Part 2 1:07:04

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Building An Electric Sports Car That Ignites Maximum Emotion. Toni Piech, Founder and Tobias Moers, CEO, Piech Automotive 55:15

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Vehicular Cycling and John Forester, Part 1 1:07:51

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Critical Mass Nairobi with Cyprine Odada 24:17

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Killed by a Traffic Engineer 47:51

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What's Web 3.0 & How Will It Make Our (Automotive) Lives Better? Tram Vo/Co-founder/MOBI & Marguerite Watanabe/Founder/Connections Insights 27:41

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Women's Freedom to Ride 26:28

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Kathy Hochul's Congestion Pricing Flip-Flop Fiasco 55:33

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TEASER: The War on The War on Cars 3:42

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What Exactly Is A Software-Defined Vehicle? John Wall, SVP and Head of QNX Engineering, Product and Operations, Blackberry QNX 47:24

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Winter Cycling in Oil Country 1:43:19

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When Driving Is Not an Option with Anna Zivarts 40:55

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TEASER: Dodge’s “Deeply Weird” Pitch for Electric Muscle Cars 7:05

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The Secret Superpower of Chinese Automakers? Dr. Ilaria Mazzocco, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 39:34

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Tesla Cybertrash with Ed Niedermeyer 56:03

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The Texas Freeway Fight with Megan Kimble 40:14

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The Giant Battle Over The Critical Minerals That Power Our Future: Ernest Scheyder, Author, The War Below. 45:20

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Car Insurance is Too Cheap 45:01

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US-China: Bigger Storms Ahead. Jim McGregor, Chairman Greater China, APCO Worldwide 46:03

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Live from New York with Bernie Wagenblast 45:35

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