EV strategy with China in the foreground.
Driving with Dunne is a business-minded EV and car-technology interview show centered on the forces reshaping tomorrow's cars. Michael Dunn talks with executives, authors, and China-focused guests about markets, manufacturing, software, patents, tariffs, and geopolitical risk.
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Driving with Dunne is a global electric-vehicle and car-technology business show with China at its center of gravity. Michael Dunn approaches the auto industry as a living contest between companies, governments, supply chains, technologies, and national strategies. The conversations are crisp and commercially grounded. They ask why Chinese automakers are advancing so quickly, why foreign brands have lost ground in China, and how China's overcapacity is turning into export pressure around the world. Episodes range from Xi Jinping's political formation to the economics of brutal EV price wars. The show also follows Chinese automakers pouring into Mexico, with questions about quality, dealer networks, post-sale service, and possible production bases for exports. It looks closely at trade friction. Tariffs, currency shifts, solar panels, batteries, critical minerals, magnets, and shipbuilding all become part of the same industrial map. Driving with Dunne is not only about cars with batteries. It is about cars becoming connected, autonomous, software-defined machines. Episodes on robocar safety and connected-car licensing bring in the invisible systems behind modern vehicles: sensors, software, cybersecurity, cellular patents, royalties, and over-the-air updates. The show also uses books and personal histories to explain larger patterns, from Apple's China experience to the practical realities Western business leaders face when negotiating there. Its style is no-nonsense and often blunt, but the purpose is clarity rather than theater. The recurring Chinese language moments add a compact cultural hook without turning the show away from business analysis. Listeners get the sense of an industry changing faster than its old leaders expected. They also hear why China's manufacturing strength cannot be reduced to cheap labor. Automation, policy discipline, local competition, and hard negotiation keep appearing as root causes. The show fits executives, investors, policy watchers, founders, and curious EV followers who want to understand the strategic terrain behind the headlines. It is strongest when it connects a single market move to a much larger global shift.
Made for: For auto executives, EV investors, policy watchers, and technology listeners who want clear analysis of the global car-technology race. It also suits anyone trying to understand why China now shapes so much of the car business.
What sets it apart: The show treats EVs as an industrial and geopolitical system, not just a consumer technology category. Its edge comes from pairing auto-market detail with China fluency, executive guests, and practical questions about competition.
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A family history gives shape to a disciplined look at Xi Jinping's rise and aims.
Joseph Torrigian approaches Xi Jinping through the long political life of his father, Xi Zhongshun, whose career ran through five purges and a central role in building special economic zones such as Shenzhen.
A clear look at why China's EV surplus is hard to unwind at home or resolve overseas.
China's electric-vehicle boom becomes a study in a deeper industrial bind: too many factories, thinner profits, price wars, export pressure, and no simple path back to balance.
Luis Lozano weighs Chinese automakers' Mexico push against Toyota's benchmark and the realities of after-sales support.
Mexico is becoming a key pressure point in the car industry's next turn, with Chinese imports rising since 2020 and Chinese automakers weighing the country as a base for reaching the United States.
A scalper saga turns Apple's China problem into a story of parts, pressure, and political awakening.
Apple's China story is clearest here when it moves through competition rather than brand mythology. Michael Dunn's conversation with McGee uses the China Arc to show how a company can be drawn into investment, shed know-how, then face Chinese rivals at home and abroad.
A clear-eyed China business lesson about lost auto sales, hotel sheets, and the need to negotiate twice.
Foreign automakers' fading sales and profits in China give Driving with Dunn a sharper spine than a routine market explainer. Michael Dunn asks what went wrong, and whether some of the damage could have been avoided.
Electric dirt bike talk from the shop floor.
European tech, explained at operator speed.
Tesla news at full conversational speed.
A weekly notebook of family, hobbies, and curiosity.
EV ownership, argued from the driver’s seat.
Australia’s EV transition, explained in motion.
Driving With Dunn host Michael Dunn interviews Joseph Torigian about Xi Jinping and Torigian’s book The Party’s Interests Come First, which uses Xi Zhongshun’s career to explain Xi’s worldview.
Driving with Dunne hosts Michael Dunn and guest Lizzie Lee on China's EV overcapacity, price wars, exports, and why the problem persists into the 2026-2030 policy cycle.
Michael Dunn interviews Luis Lozano, former CEO of Toyota de Mexico, about Chinese automakers pushing into Mexico and the U.S.
Michael Dunn opens by asking whether Trump's Korea meeting with Xi Jinping and the FT's one-year trade truce change anything beyond the headline.
Michael Dunn opens Driving With Dunn on Patrick McGee's claim that Apple spent more than $50 billion a year training Chinese suppliers, a figure he compares with the Marshall Plan.
Michael Dunn interviews Mitch Presnick, a Harvard Fairbank Center visiting fellow who spent more than 35 years in Asia and built Super 8's Chinese franchise network.
On Driving with Dunne, host Michael Dunn interviews QNX COO John Wall about treating autonomous vehicles as “robots on wheels” built from sensors, software, and decision-making systems.
Michael Dunn interviews Laurie Fitzgerald, president of Avanci Vehicle, about how 4G and 5G patents reach connected cars through a licensing platform.
Michael Dunn interviews Kyle Chan, author of the New York Times essay “In the Future, China Will Be Dominant, the US Will Be Irrelevant,” about China's industrial rise.
Michael Dunn interviews Wendy Cutler of the Asia Society Policy Institute about the Trump administration's tariff blitz and its conflicting goals: revenue, deficit reduction, investment, trade remedies, and negotiating leverage.
Michael Dunn asks Emily Feng how ordinary people experience China beyond competing American narratives about industrial power and economic weakness.
Michael Dunn interviews Mike Colias, the Wall Street Journal's Detroit auto reporter and author of Inevitable, about why Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis struggle to build profitable electric vehicles.
Michael Dunn interviews Jörg Wuttke, former BASF China leader and Albright Stonebridge Group partner, about China’s systemic overcapacity.
Driving With Dunne features Jane Perlez and Michael Dunn examining how China became the world’s number-one car exporter in four years, after proposing EV leadership in 2009 and launching Made in China 2025 in 2014.
Alex Roy describes two Tesla Model S drives between the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan and the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, designed to measure progress toward unsupervised driving rather than travel time.
Michael Dunn interviews Dean Evans, co-founder of Evolution, about rare-earth processing, magnets, and Western industrial dependence on China.
On Driving With Dunn, Michael Dunn interviews former Silicon Valley Bank chairman and CEO Ken Wilcox about negotiating, operating, and preparing for business in China.
Michael Dunn interviews Barbara Glowacka of the European Commission about the Clean Industrial Deal and Europe’s dependence on China for solar panels, electric cars, and batteries.
Michael Dunn interviews Roger Atkins, founder of Electric Vehicles Outlook, about Europe’s conflict between rapid electrification and Chinese EV imports pressuring France, Germany, and Italy.
Michael Dunne and Christopher Balcom of Schneider Electric examine why Tesla Superchargers feel simpler than Electrify America and ChargePoint stations with multiple responsible companies.
Driving With Dunn host Michael Dunn interviews UC Davis transportation scholar Daniel Sperling about China’s EV rise, California policy, Tesla, and automated vehicles.
Driving With Dunn host Michael Dunn examines why China reached more than 50% EV sales while the United States remains around 8–9% and Europe below 15%.
Michael Dunn interviews Tony Piech and Tobias Moers about the Piech GT, an electric sports car targeted for launch in 2028.
Three battery experts discuss how Western automakers and governments can reduce EV costs to compete with China's affordable electric vehicles.
Michael Dunn interviews Bethany Allen about China's incremental strategy to take over Taiwan and the global implications for semiconductor supply.