Transportation Matters - The CEO Podcast of Daimler Truck

In this episode, Martin Daum talks to Bernd Heid about the transformation of the energy sector - more specifically, they address one of the most controversial topics: the role of hydrogen.

Bernd Heid, one of the leading experts on climate technologies and a strategic partner of the Hydrogen Council, discusses with Martin Daum whether hydrogen can be used as a fuel for commercial vehicles. Bernd Heid also clarifies myths and facts around hydrogen and explains what role this energy source has for the transformation of the transport sector.

Listen to the latest episode and learn more about the future of carbon-neutral transport and how hydrogen can be part of this transformation. Enjoy the episode!

The topic of the latest episode is the electrification and digitization in the transport sector. What are the opportunities and the challenges? One of the most renowned automotive experts will help to answer these questions: Ferdinand Dudenhöffer. As director of the Center of Automotive Research in Duisburg, he has been researching the auto industry for decades.

Martin Daum and Ferdinand Dudenhöffer will take stock of the commercial vehicle industry's efforts at transformation and discuss how these can be accelerated.

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In the first episode of the year, Martin Daum chats with Germany’s former Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel about issues that will shape 2024: How is the world order changing and what does this mean for Europe? How can we as a society bear the costs of the energy transition in a socially responsible and fair way? Why is de-globalization not an option and why is it so important to vote in the European elections? And what does geopolitics have to do with entrepreneurial risk management? An exciting discussion on questions to which there are no simple answers..

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Our guest today is a true wunderkind. Austin Russell filed his first patent when he was 12 and built a cell phone out of a Nintendo device when he was a teenager. He went to Stanford and dropped out after six months. Today his company Luminar Technologies, which he founded when he was 17, is publicly traded and a key player in the field of autonomous driving. Together with Daimler Truck Luminar Technologies is working on making their Lidar technology, a 3D laser scanning high-tech, the state of the art for reliable and safe autonomous trucking (SAE Level 4). Martin Daum not only talks to Austin Russell about the future of autonomous trucking (SAE Level 4) but also about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Enjoy this very inspiring new episode of Transportation Matters!

Martin Daum discusses the journey to CO2 neutrality with Dr Stefan Hartung, Chairman of the Board of Management of Robert Bosch GmbH: What does it take to master the transformation to emission-free transport? What role do global companies such as Daimler Truck and Bosch play in this? And why are energy prices a crucial success factor?

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