New mobility comes at a cost

On this week’s Talking Michigan Transportation, conversations about automaker efforts to bring down the cost of electric vehicles (EVs), the impact of the EV pullback on the South and trends in safety.

Joann Muller, the transportation correspondent at Axios and author of their weekly Future of Mobility newsletter, joined the podcast to talk about those issues and more.

Some key topics:

· Ford’s efforts to make EVs more affordable.

· How public policy at the federal level will affect the development of autonomous vehicles, which are typically EVs.

· Safety concerns for robotaxis.