The TechMobility Podcast
Welcome to The TechMobility Podcast, your ultimate source for authentic insights, news, and perspectives at the nexus of mobility and technology. We're all about REAL FACTS, REAL OPINIONS, and REAL TALK! From personal privacy to space hotels, if it moves or moves you, we're discussing it! Our weekly episodes venture beyond the conventional, offering a unique, unfiltered take on the topics that matter. We're not afraid to color outside the lines, and we believe you'll appreciate our bold approach!
Episodes
300 episodes
A Sedan Comeback, a Better Jeep Wrangler, EV Minerals From Seawater, and Are Modern Engines Engineered to Last?
Cars spent years losing the “cool” fight to trucks, pickups, and crossover SUVs, but the ground is shifting again. I dig into what’s changing and why: high fuel prices, buyer fatigue with oversized vehicles, and a new wave of electric vehicles ...
Cheap AI, Grid-Scale Batteries, Electric-Shock Gloves and the Last Stick Shift
Frontier AI is supposed to be expensive, power-hungry, and locked behind premium pricing. Then a Chinese open-weight model shows up with results that make developers stare at the scoreboard and ask a different question: what if “good enough” AI...
Robotaxi Chaos, 2026 Toyota GR Supra review, Moisture-Powered Batteries—and AI’s Small-Town Cost
Robotaxis are expanding fast, and the weird parts of the real world are expanding even faster. We dig into Waymo’s growth across 15 U.S. cities, how it jumped from hundreds to thousands of autonomous vehicles, and why “edge cases” are still the...
Tiny EV Trucks, Hotter Oceans, Synthetic Life—and an Unexpected Cure for Loneliness
A tiny electric pickup with big-truck ambition, an ocean heat surge that can bend weather across continents, and a lab-built “cell” that grows, divides, and outcompetes its neighbors under pressure. That’s the ride we’re taking today, and every...
An EV That Defies Gravity, Kia K4 GT-Line Turbo hatchback review, Bots Take Over the Web, and Why California Hates Drive-Thrus
A car that can drive upside down sounds like a rumor you’d hear at a racetrack, but it’s real and electric. I break down why the McMurtry Spéirling Pure is one of the most outrageous EVs ever built, from its 0 to 60 in 1.55 seconds punch to its...
Honda’s Element Gamble, America’s $65,000 Truck Habit, Extreme Batteries, and Ford’s Quality Comeback
Honda may be ready to bring back one of its weirdest, most useful cult cars, and that single decision opens up a bigger conversation about where the auto market is headed. We kick off with the reported plan to revive the Honda Element as a hybr...
Mobile Driver’s Licenses, the 2026 Mazda CX-90 PHEV, Hydrogen-Fueled Electricity, and the Gasoline Crack Spread
Your driver’s license on your phone sounds like the ultimate convenience until you picture a dead battery at the airport, a stolen device, or a random account lockout right when you need to prove who you are. I dig into the real-world state of ...
BYD’s 570-Mile EV, MIT’s Lithium Breakthrough, Check Fraud and Cars That Power the Grid
A luxury electric sedan that can deliver roughly 570 miles of range should make anyone in the U.S. auto industry sit up straight, especially when it’s coming from BYD, the Chinese EV maker that’s already outpacing much of the world in scale. We...
Are Minneapolis’ Congestion-Priced HOV Lanes Worth It? A 2026 Honda Pilot SUV review, A Blood Test for Alzheimer’s, and Chinese Automakers in America
Paying to “skip” traffic sounds simple—until the express lane dumps right back into the same bottleneck. In this episode, I take a firsthand look at Minneapolis’ pay-to-use HOV lane setup on I-35W: what it costs per trip, how plate readers and ...
Chrysler’s Comeback, Rejuvenated EV Batteries, $500 Car Payments, and Ramping Up Manufacturing in America
Chrysler has been running on fumes for years, and we say that as people who actually want the brand to win. That comeback story matters because it is not just about one automaker finding its footing again; it is also about the bigger questions ...
Ram Bets on Small Vans, Lucid Gravity SUV Raises the Bar, Colorado River in Crisis, and EV Tire Technology Evolves
A small work van can make or break a business; a luxury electric SUV can reset expectations; and a river can determine what your lights and groceries cost. That’s where we go on TechMobility, moving from the vehicles you can buy today to the sy...
Can America Still Compete? Robots, China Speed, ADHD Research, and the Future of U.S. Manufacturing
25,000 robots. That number stops you for a second because it’s not a sci-fi thought experiment. It’s a real manufacturing strategy, and it raises a blunt question: can U.S. automakers compete in a world where cost, quality, and speed increasing...
Can Ford Build a $30,000 EV? 2026 Lexus TX 350 review, Automated School Bus Camera Surveillance, and Rivian's Factory Expansion
A $30,000 electric pickup truck made in the United States sounds like a fantasy until you look at what Ford is changing to make it real. We walk through Ford’s skunkworks approach to building affordable EVs, including fewer parts, large cast st...
Polestar's U.S. Crisis, Global Automotive Competition, NASA's Orbital Fuel Plan, and Rebuilding American Manufacturing
Polestar might be on the clock in the United States, and it’s not because the cars aren’t good. We unpack the Connected Vehicles Rule and the national security rationale for restricting Chinese-linked Bluetooth, Wi‑Fi, cellular, and certain sat...
High Tariffs, Low Quality; 2026 Subaru Outback Wilderness review; A Nuclear Power Revival; and Coast-to-Coast in 15 minutes
Would you pay luxury prices for a Land Rover built under a Stellantis strategy designed to dodge tariffs? That question kicks off a wide-ranging Tech Mobility conversation in which we trace how manufacturing decisions, quality engineering, and ...
An Affordable EV Pickup Truck, the American E-Waste Crisis, AI's Blue-Collar Boom, and Wrong-Way Drivers
A $24,950 electric truck sounds like a typo, but it might be the clearest signal yet that the auto market is finally taking affordability seriously. We talk through the Slate Truck’s stripped-down approach: no infotainment system, hand-crank wi...
Mitsubishi’s Attempt to Stay Relevant, Jeep Cherokee Returns, Virtual Power Plants, and Countries Debate Social Media Limits
Mitsubishi still sells cars in the United States, but the numbers are thin, and the clock is loud. We dig into how a smaller automaker can secure the cash and engineering muscle to stay in the game, and why platform sharing and badge engineerin...
Cadillac's EV Success, a Recycling Reckoning, Power-Generating Windows, and AI Replaces Jake at State Farm
For many years, Cadillac was known as “the Standard of the World,” but for a long time it wasn’t the first name that came to mind when talking about luxury tech. That’s why we stopped and stared at the latest EV numbers: Cadillac has crossed 10...
Bollinger's Collapse, Hyundai's Affordable Crossover, Warehouse Robots, and the Energy Costs You Can't Escape
Bollinger Motors gets liquidated, CVS Health turns warehouses into robot-powered throughput hubs, and the global jet fuel squeeze quietly threatens what you pay at the pump. That sounds like three separate headlines, but we see a single pattern...
Two-Hour Entrepreneurs, Driverless Trucks, Teen Driver Training, and the Future of American Passenger Rail
A truck just completed a paid commercial freight run with no human in the cab and no remote driver, and it still met a tight delivery window. That’s not sci-fi; it’s a real autonomous trucking milestone, and it raises a serious question: when t...
GM's Medium Duty Truck Retreat, Mazda CX-30 Misses the Mark, Montana Tax Schemes, and China Raises the Luxury Car Stakes
GM is pulling the plug on a corner of the truck world most people forget exists, and the reason is brutally simple: math. We walk through Chevrolet’s modern medium-duty truck experiment, from the Silverado 4500HD, 5500HD, and 6500HD partnership...
Radioactive Space Batteries, Record-Length Car Loans, Chrysler's Identity Crisis, and the Rise of Cycling
“Radioactive batteries” sounds like a headline built to scare you, so we start by separating the science from the gut reaction. We walk through what “radioactive” actually means, then break down the practical differences among alpha particles, ...
A $200,000 Lexus Supercar, the Nearly Flawless Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, Low-Carbon Cement, and AI-Powered Forests
A $200,000 Lexus with real supercar intent is not a rumor to shrug off, especially when the numbers floating around include 641 horsepower and a claimed 200 mph top speed. We kick things off by digging into what a GR-style Lexus performance sub...
A $25,000 EV Pickup, a 100,000-Year Nuclear Repository, Electric RVs, and Plug-In Solar
A $25,000-style electric pickup sounds impossible until you strip the vehicle down to what most people actually need. We dig into Slate Auto’s “blank slate” utility EV concept: no paint, phone-based infotainment, fewer factory options, and a pl...
Ford’s Eyes-Off EV Strategy, 2026 Kia EV9 Reality Check, Printable Artificial Neurons, and Why Truck Safety is More Than Equipment
“Eyes-off” driving sounds like the future, but trust is earned mile by mile. We dig into Ford’s plan to bring an eyes-off, hands-free driver-assistance system to its next universal EV platform by 2028, plus a near-term push to add an AI tool to...
