OUR 25th EPISODE!
Meet Bill Russo, Founder and CEO of Shanghai-based Automobility. Bill founded a strategy and investment advisory firm that helps its clients build and profit from the future of mobility.   In this episode, Bill provides a bleak outlook for the foreign automobile manufacturers in China who have missed the opportunity to re-think mobility as something more efficient, more environmentally friendly, and fundamentally more profitable than the current model, which relies purely on a one-time sale of a product and its eventual maintenance and repair.  To Bill, the automobile is the least efficient device on Earth, but China companies are now leading the world in redefining automobile ownership.

1.  What is “automobility” and what does your company do in China?
2.  Why China will lead in new ways of mobility, thanks to the intervention of technology
3.  Making profit beyond the sale of the mobility device – what auto companies still cannot embrace
4.  Not a car but a mobility device is the biggest super-computer humans interact with on a daily basis
5.  Western car brands had big advantages over the Chinese industry, but now they are falling behind the local innovators
6.  Auto productivity equals 1 hour a day
7.  The growing portfolio of Chinese EV brands:  who wins and loses?
8.  Will the traditional 4S dealer survive?  Does it have a role in the new China mobility?
9.  Will we expect infrastructural changes to go with the changes in Chinese mobility?
10.  How can you be a part of the mobility revolution?
11. What will be the Chinese EV that will sell abroad?
12.  The A/B Test:  Puxi, of course!  NIO and the NY Yankees!

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Bill on Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamrusso/

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2 comments on “The Eventual Demise of the Automobile & The Rise of Chinese Mobility”

  1. Johnny harrison Sep 3, 2022

    European auto makers need to move away from luxury EV brands to mainstream brands

  2. Lawrence Driscoll Sep 6, 2022

    Let’s not be too hasty about pegging the superior efficiency of China’s robocars and the new mobility. There are lots of support factors that still need to play out, in a success friendly way. Anyway,watching it all unfold will surely be an attention grabber.