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The Ride AI podcast presents cutting-edge insights and meaningful conversations with the world’s top mobility technology leaders so that you learn hard-won lessons of investment and innovation. Ride AI is hosted by Ed Niedermeyer an American author and analyst who focuses on the automotive industry and mobility innovation. Co-hosts include Horace Dediu, Oliver Bruce and James Gross.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ride AI connects micromobility technology to the operating costs, infrastructure, and policy choices that determine how it works in cities.
Ride AI follows small electric vehicles from the street into the businesses and policies shaping them. Oliver Bruce and Horace Dediu bring emerging technology into the micromobility frame, while James Gross and Julia Fain pair industry news with candid disagreement and firsthand…
From cargo-bike parcel math to robotaxi permits, your street gets a lively cross-examination.
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A focused look at Tensor's day-one robo car pitch, its 8,000-TOPS computer, and the autonomy plan behind it.
Tensor makes a clear, specific case for itself: a consumer car built as a robo car from day one, not a conventional vehicle waiting for autonomy to arrive later.
A Venice Beach Linus Bikes ride gives way to the harder economics behind shared mobility.
Ride On takes its e-bike curiosity outside, following James Gross and Julia Fain to Linus Bikes in Venice Beach for time with the E-Dutchie and E-Roadster.
Small electric vehicles open a wider look at military mobility, industrial design, and wartime manufacturing.
Ride On uses small electric vehicles as a doorway into military scale and industrial ingenuity. Julia Fade and James Gross connect soldiers using small electric vehicles with World War II factories turning out Sherman tanks, then use the Jeep to look at modular design, efficient…
A grounded workplace mobility review following e-bikes from French regional cities to Walmart's Bentonville campus.
Employee benefits become a practical mobility question in this single-episode review of e-bikes as an employee benefit, hosted by Roman Maliska with perspectives from Zenride, Walmart, Safran, and the European Cycling Federation.
A loose, argumentative ride through VanMoof's bankruptcy, Swing's model, and micromobility's possible AI turn.
Ride On uses a rough week for micromobility to test the category's bigger promises. VanMoof's bankruptcy lands with real disappointment, and the San Francisco autonomous-car discussion gives Julia Thain and James Gross room to disagree without sanding the edges down.
A sharp look at why AV policy is really a city design fight.
The discussion starts with the CPUC's Waymo fare vote, then keeps widening into a clear case for how autonomous vehicles should fit into city life.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
James Gross interviews Micah Toll about tragic electric bike deaths in the US, critiquing the New York Times for victim-blaming and discussing Micah's rebuttal piece on micromobility safety.
Ed Niedermeyer discusses the recent CPUC approval for Waymo's paid robo-taxi services in San Francisco, analyzing the public controversy and urbanist opposition.
In this episode of Ride AI, hosts James Gross and Julia Thang discuss recent trends in climate tech investment, noting a decline in VC funding for transportation and energy sectors, with a shift towards hard to abate industries like cement and steel.
Tensor COO Jewel Lee says the Robocar is a ground-up level 4 vehicle with 37 cameras, 5 lidars, 11 radars, 22 microphones, and an 8,000 TOPS computer stack.
Ride On episode 24 opens on location in Venice Beach at Linus Bikes, where James Gross and Julia Fain test the new E-Dutchie and E-Roadster on the boardwalk.
Ride On episode 23 starts with James Gross and Julia Fade outlining a Velo 2 giveaway, a $5 Ride On Expo at Micromobility America, and audio distribution with the Micromobility podcast.
Roman Milishka's "Electrifying the Workplace" panel brings Courtney Barrett of Walmart, Ophelie Schmitter of Safran, Olivier Isali of Zenride, and Henk of the European Cyclists Federation together around e-bike benefits.
["Ride AI opens with Oliver explaining that his new role at Blackbird Ventures will reduce his time on the show, so James Gross and Julia Thain take over a week of micromobility news.", "The sharpest industry story is VanMoof pausing sales, searching for bridge funding, and exposing the risk of bikes that depend on app access and cloud payments.", "James and Julia also cover Rad Power's layoffs and Europe exit, Swing's 100,000-vehicle share business in South Korea, and Lime's modular scooter profitability story.", "The most heated segment lands on San Francisco autonomous-car collision data, where Reuters, Gary Tan, and the CPUC are cited in a dispute over what the city reported."]
Ride AI presents a Micromobility panel led by Micah Toll with representatives from Cowboy, Cannondale, Lekker, Ampler, and VanMoof.
Ride AI examines Finmile, a London freight company founded by Rich Pleath and Scott Murphy that uses four-wheel cargo e-bikes with two-square-meter compartments and roughly 60 miles of range.
Ben Hubbard moderates a Micromobility Europe panel with Henry Moissinac of Dott, Thomas of Tenbici, Sun Kim of Swing, and JD of Phoenix on regulation, profitability, and consolidation.
Ride AI presents a Micromobility Europe 2023 panel on why e-bike businesses are shifting from sharing toward subscriptions.
Horace Dediu and Oliver Bruce examine Apple Vision Pro, a $3,500 spatial-computing headset, as a possible interface for micromobility.
Ride AI's 2022 micromobility rerelease revisits why electric bikes and scooters matter for short trips, urban transport, and decarbonization.
Interview with Adam Barmby from Eve, an electric cargo bike manufacturer, discussing micromobility's impact on last mile delivery and urban logistics.
An interview with Li-Hung Nong, CEO of Nimbus, discussing their lightweight electric vehicle and the importance of micromobility in addressing climate change and urbanization.
An interview with the CEO of Nimbus about their lightweight electric vehicle and the future of micromobility.
The hosts revisit the micromobility thesis, discussing the disruptive potential of lightweight electric vehicles and their impact on urban transport.
Oliver Bruce interviews Mark Fronmayer from Arcimoto about their electric vehicle progress, including the FUV and Mean Lean Machine, and discusses manufacturing revisions with Sandy Munro.
Horace Deju and Oliver Bruce examine whether micromobility can address transport's climate problem as global emissions reach about 42 gigatons of CO2 annually.
Ride AI's recap of Micromobility compresses 20 earlier episodes into a case for electric utility vehicles under 500 kilograms.