Under The Hood: Automotive Storytelling

Racing technology still makes teams faster, but more of the time is now found in engineering hours than in hardware. In this episode of Automotive Storytelling, Stéphane Lagresle takes you onto the floor of the first Motorsport Technology Expo at Farnborough International with two questions. Does technology really get racing teams to the finish line faster? And what bridges actually exist between motorsport and passenger and commercial vehicles? Six conversations, recorded over two days in ...

INTRODUCTION The software-defined vehicle was sold on a revenue story. The revenue didn’t meet expectations - by far. In this episode of Automotive Storytelling, Stéphane Lagresle sits down with two people who watched that gap open from opposite sides. Konstantin Shirokinskiy is a Partner at Roland Berger in Detroit and Global Co-Head of the firm's Software Technology Cluster, with earlier stops at DaimlerChrysler and Rivian. Prashant Gulati is CEO of SDVerse, the B2B automotive software mar...

⚡ WHERE THE ENERGY SYSTEM MEETS THE ROAD In this episode of Automotive Storytelling, the podcast that examines mobility through storytelling, I sit down with Henrik Engdahl, former Director Electromobility Business Development at Volvo Trucks and now an independent advisor through his consultancy Nimling, to unpack what the electric truck transition actually changes: not the vehicle, but the relationships around it. Everything in your office arrived on a truck. Your desk, your screen, your ph...

In this episode of Automotive Storytelling, the only podcast examining mobility through storytelling, Stéphane Lagresle sits down with Philip Koopman, Carnegie Mellon Faculty Emeritus and originator of the UL 4600 autonomous safety standard, to unpack why the industry's robotaxi safety narrative keeps breaking and what it would take to rebuild public confidence. The AV industry has built its case on one metric: fewer collisions. Phil argues that the metric is doing very little work, and that ...

🎙️ THE SILICON SHIFT, DECODED At AEK 2026, one theme ran through every hallway and keynote: automotive chiplets, and the deeper shift they signal. In this special edition of Automotive Storytelling, I sat down on the floor of the Automobil-Elektronik Kongress with six people shaping the industry's next decade, from semiconductor CTOs to a Microsoft engineer to the congress chairman himself, to unpack what is actually changing under the car. 🎯 KEY INSIGHTS Silicon vendors have become tier on...