Garaget International - A Podcast with Magnus Sundemo
Interesting interviews with intriguing people who have a relationship with mobility in all aspects Profil and theme: We talk with interesting and knowledgeable people who have knowledge, interest or comments on current topics that have any kind of impact, directly or indirectly, at the mobility and automotive business. Focus Topics: • Automotive • Mobility • Leadership and teamwork • New technologies • New progressive issues • Research • and much more From episode 92. Garaget change name to “Garaget International”.
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114. "Polestar - helt klimatneutral 2030" Dennis Nobelius COO
04/24/2021
114. "Polestar - helt klimatneutral 2030" Dennis Nobelius COO
Vi talar om Polestar och dess resa mot att bli helt klimatneutrala 2030. Om vad Dennis med sin gedigna bakgrund och breda CV kan bidra med in i Polestar och hur företaget kan utvecklas med nya modeller och nya affärsmodeller. Välkommen med i samtalet.
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113. "Just do it!" featuring Håkan Samuelsson CEO of Volvo Cars
04/12/2021
113. "Just do it!" featuring Håkan Samuelsson CEO of Volvo Cars
In this episode you will meet Håkan Samuelsson, the CEO of Volvo Cars. We talk about record sales, electrification and much more but also about a culture that instead of just talking dare to take action and "just do it". Håkan have just turned 70tie, and he may be the oldest person in Volvo Cars just now but I can promise you that he is more vital than ever and so curios of what the future will bring. No plan to resign.
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112. Alain Visser about joining a club instead of owning a car
10/23/2020
112. Alain Visser about joining a club instead of owning a car
In this episode you will meet Alain Visser, the CEO of Lynk&Co Lynk&Co has just announced and revealed their new concept of joining their community and be member of the Lynk&Co club. They call it a streaming mobility service. A very different way of offer a mobility services for a car company. Has this concept the power to pave the way for a very different way how to consume mobility? Can it possible reform the whole automotive industry? Welcome to Garaget International!
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111. Håkan Samuelsson and the transformation of Volvo Cars
09/23/2020
111. Håkan Samuelsson and the transformation of Volvo Cars
In this episode you will meet Håkan Samuelsson, the CEO of Volvo Cars since 2012. We talk about the corona pandemic and how it has hurt the business but also how it has accelerated the transformation of Volvo Cars to become a true premium electric car company. An organisation with aspiration to adapt to new customer behaviours and find ways to buy and use mobility services. An organisation that want to attract talents and people with ambition to make a difference towards a true sustainable mobility company. We also touch on the merger between Volvo Cars and Geely Auto and possible consequences for Volvo Cars as an independent company.
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110. Three authors reflect on Volvo, Geely and China
06/30/2020
110. Three authors reflect on Volvo, Geely and China
In this episode you will meet Håkan Matson and Frederic Cho. Håkan is one of Sweden’s most well-known automotive journalists and co-writer to the book “Volvos revanche – How the tiger was unleashed”. Frederic is an eminent Chinese experts and business advisors in Sweden with more than 30 years business experience from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong and also writer to book “China according to Cho” and my contribution as host is as writer of the book “The truth about Volvo”. We talk and reflect about the exiting story of Volvo Cars since Geely's acquisition 10 years ago and what the recipe has been for the success. We also discuss the situation today and what the future might bring. Welcome to Garaget International!
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109. Meet Stefan Rosen - head of Lynk&Co Design
05/19/2020
109. Meet Stefan Rosen - head of Lynk&Co Design
In this episode you will meet Stefan Rosen. SVP for Lynk&Co design heading an office with nearly 400 coworkers at Lindholmen in Gothenburg. Stefan and I have a long history together at Volvo Cars but this time we focus on his thoughts about creating design and values for a new mobility brand – Lynk&Co. A global blend and brand with roots both in west and east. Welcome to Garaget International!
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108. The victory of Lynk&Co #3 in the Word Touring Car Cup 2019
03/13/2020
108. The victory of Lynk&Co #3 in the Word Touring Car Cup 2019
In this episode you will meet Alexander Murdzevski. He is head of Geely Group Motorsport and lead the Team to the victory of the Word Touring Car Cup 2019 with the Lynk&Co "zero-three" car sport sedan car. We talk about racing, what it takes to win a global motor cup and about the network within the Geely family that made it possible. And if Lotus or Polestar will enter formula racing backed by Geely motorsport. Welcome to Garaget International!
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107. Hans Oscarsson, CEO for Geely Sweden Holdings AB
01/13/2020
107. Hans Oscarsson, CEO for Geely Sweden Holdings AB
In this episode you will meet Hans Oscarsson. We know each other since many years together at Volvo Cars but now Hans is in a new role as CEO for Geely Sweden Holdings AB since august 2019. We talk about his role to oversee all Geely's investments in the Nordic countries. They have a strong impact on Sweden but an even bigger influence of the city of Gothenburg. Welcome to Garaget International!
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106. The exciting future of Lotus car part 3
12/06/2019
106. The exciting future of Lotus car part 3
This is the third episode from my visit at Lotus Cars and their facility in Hethel in Norwich England. This time you will meet the head of design Russel Carr. He will tell you about the importance of Lotus design and especially about the story behind the new hypercar from Lotus the Evija. I will also talk with Matt Windle about engineering and David Hewitt about manufacturing of today’s hand built Lotus sportscar.
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105. The exciting future of Lotus Cars part 2.
11/17/2019
105. The exciting future of Lotus Cars part 2.
I’m back with the second episode from my visit at Lotus Cars October 2019 and their facility in Hethel in Norwich England. This time you will meet Clive Chapman, son to the legendary founder of Lotus Cars Colin Chapman and Gavan Kershaw that is responsible for handling and performance of today’s Lotus sports car. Welcome to Garaget International!
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104. The exciting future of Lotus Cars part 1
11/04/2019
104. The exciting future of Lotus Cars part 1
I visited Lotus Cars in their facilities in Hethel, Norwich England in mid-October where the legendary engineer genius Colin Chapman founded Lotus Cars more than 70 years ago. An amazing place. Lotus is now a part of the Geely group and I was so interested to understand what that has meant for the brand and the company and how the future looks like. This is the first episode in a series of episodes from Lotus Cars. In this first episode I meet with Geoff Dowding director of sales and Simon Clare director for Global marketing. Welcome to Garaget International!
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103. Joe Lin and Jerker Anderson winner of 2018th Shufu Award
10/29/2019
103. Joe Lin and Jerker Anderson winner of 2018th Shufu Award
In this episode you will meet Joe Lin and Jerker Andersson. They are both winner of the 2018th Shufu Award, founded by Geelys chairman Li Shufu. Their backgrounds differ a lot but there are also similarities. They have made great achievements for the Geely group and they are both passionate about their work. We talk about what made them winner of the award and what it has meant for them to receive this achievement. Welcome to Garaget International!
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102. Meet Niclas Anderson Director for Supplier quality at CEVT
10/14/2019
102. Meet Niclas Anderson Director for Supplier quality at CEVT
Niclas Anderson is Director for Supplier quality for Volvos and Lynk&Co’s small platform, CMA. His workplace is CEVT in Gothenburg and his job is to secure the quality for all components within the region of Europe. But the success of his work is depending on that he can work together with people from China and Europe and from Geely and Volvo and suppliers from all over the world. We talk about what the challenges are and what opportunity this gives him in his daily work. Welcome to Garaget International!
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101. LABS - where innovations are born
07/10/2019
101. LABS - where innovations are born
I meet two of the co-workers at Volvo Cars innovation lab in a cool office in the city centre of Gothenburg earlier this spring. It was Lotta Ahlberg and old friend with a mixed history from Volvo Cars from Innovation support and Ergonomics and Paul Aston a fresh Volvo employee with a background as tech designer with a lot of experience from the non-automotive business. LABS has been in operation for less then two years and they have a mission to innovate new business for Volvo cars. Some ideas is soon reaching real customers and some are still only ideas. Join our conversion and get inspired!
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100. Anniversary - All about culture!
06/26/2019
100. Anniversary - All about culture!
Welcome to celebrate the one hundred episodes of this podcast. We recorded it in front of a live audience for the first time. Anna Margitin, Board member of Volvo Car group and union leader was co-host for this anniversary. Culture was on the agenda and we had a very interesting guest on board; Lex Kerssemakers SVP and responsible for Direct Consumer Business at Volvo Car. He is a passionate advocate of a strong company culture and has recently been out in social media in this matter. And as a bonus you get the song from the eighties “The spirit of Volvo” in the end of this episode. Warm welcome to join us in this historically episode.
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99. "Mr Geely design" - Peter Horbury
05/24/2019
99. "Mr Geely design" - Peter Horbury
Peter Horbury is more or less synonym with Geely Design that started as a seed six years ago with less than 10 people. They have now grown to a global design organisation present on three different continents with more than 900 employees. Peter and I meet at his office in Lindholmen, Gothenburg and spoke about the incredible success for Geely Auto and the part that Design has played. Geely Design is now responsible for the design of next generation Lotus cars and this is sort of dream coming true for Peter. We also talk about possible synergies in the Geely group and how we can learn from each other. Welcome to the conversation.
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98. Volvo Cars future featuring CEO Håkan Samuelsson
05/09/2019
98. Volvo Cars future featuring CEO Håkan Samuelsson
Håkan Samuelsson is a recurring guest in Garaget. This time we talk about the challenges in today’s tougher business environment and how to meet them in a constructive way. He wants to stimulate job rotation and use the potential in all employees in order to increase efficiency. More focus to group around a challenge and a mission and less on boxes and a firm organization. Håkan is also convinced that Volvo need new ways to reach consumers but that today’s retailers has to be part of the new infrastructure. Electrification and autonomous drive is also focus area’s for Volvo that we cover in our dialog. Welcome to Garaget International!
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97. Polestar’s fascinating future, featuring Thomas Ingenlath
04/04/2019
97. Polestar’s fascinating future, featuring Thomas Ingenlath
Thomas Ingenlath is the CEO and the incarnation of Polestar, the new car brand in the Geely group. We meet in Polestars new office “The cube” in Torslanda Gothenburg a bright Saturday morning and had a very relaxed talk about where Polestar is today and where the company is heading for the future. It’s a new company with a new unique culture but with very close bonds with its parent’s Volvo Cars and Geely. Polestar just launched its second car Polestar 2 that is a pure electric car with ambitions to compete with cars like the Tesla model 3. But for Thomas this is only the beginning. He sees lots of opportunities for the future and I quote him: “The sky is the limit!” Welcome to Garaget International!
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96. Carl-Peter Forster, a legendary car profile
03/20/2019
96. Carl-Peter Forster, a legendary car profile
In this episode you will meet Carl-Peter Forster. He has an impressing experience and CV from more than 30 years in the car business. He has worked for BMW, has been the president for GM-Europe, CEO for the Tata-group including Jaguar and Land Rover and much more. He has also been a member of Volvo Cars Board more since early 2013 and is now leaving that position. He share his thoughts about what made the turn around of Volvo Cars possible and how to meet future challenges. He praise the Volvo engineers and there importance for the success. We discuss the impact and influence from Geely as owner and what that has meant for Volvo Cars and what opportunities it will give Volvo for the future. Welcome to Garaget International!
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95. MobilityXlab-Where startup's meet big cooperation’s
03/08/2019
95. MobilityXlab-Where startup's meet big cooperation’s
In this episode you will meet the director for MobilityXlab Katarina Brud. MobilityXlab is situated in the heart of the mobility cluster in Lindholmen Gothenburg and is a place where tech startups can accelerate their development by accessing competence from leading mobility experts. MobilityXlab was launched during the fall 2017 and the partners is CEVT, Ericsson, Veoneer, Volvo Cars, Volvo Group & Zenuity. The initiative is hosted by Lindholmen Science Park. Welcome to Garaget International!
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94. Geely Innovation Centre featuring Project Executive Gang Wei
01/25/2019
94. Geely Innovation Centre featuring Project Executive Gang Wei
In this episode you will meet Gang Wei. Hi is responsible for the new Geely Innovation Center that is under construction in Gothenburg. This innovation centre will be a landmark in the middle of the mobility cluster at Lindholmen in Gothenburg with room for more than three thousand engineers, designers and researchers and innovators when its ready 2022. Listen to Gang and his vision and thoughts about this exciting project that invites start-ups and innovators to join Geely’s journey to be one of the global leaders in tomorrow’s mobility landscape.
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93. The exciting story about CEVT featuring the CEO Mats Fägerhag
01/11/2019
93. The exciting story about CEVT featuring the CEO Mats Fägerhag
Welcome to Garaget International. In this episode you will meet Mats Fägerhag CEO in CEVT, China Euro Vehicle Tecnology, owned by the Chinese company Geely, the same company that owns Volvo Cars since 2010. CEVT is a rather new automotive engineering company with it’s base in the heart of the mobility cluster at Lindholmen in Gotheburg, today with more then 2000 employees. CEVT has made an incredible journey since the start 2013 and Mats freely share his experience trough the last five years. Welcome to this exciting episode!
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92. The story behind Lynk & Co featuring Alain Visser
11/12/2018
92. The story behind Lynk & Co featuring Alain Visser
Alain Visser is the CEO of Lynk & Co. We meet at his office in Lindholmen, Gothenburg earlier this fall and talked about what it takes to create an entirely new Car brand. Lynk & Co is a very special brand with huge ambitions. The first models have already meet buyers in China and they will probably sell nearly 150 000 cars already 2018 and the ambition is to sell half a million cars already 2020. And the demand is huge from customer. The plan is then to expand and offer a new type of mobility globally with start in the Netherlands. We also talked about the culture in the company with a large influence from China. The main difference is “speed” and “cost”. Welcome to the conversion.
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91. Einar Gudmundsson and the revolution at the dealer Rejmes
10/04/2018
91. Einar Gudmundsson and the revolution at the dealer Rejmes
Einar Gudmundsson and the revolution at the dealer Rejmes Einar was appointed CEO at Rejmes five years ago and since then the company has made an unbelievable journey from worse to best in class in a lot of different aspects. Rejmes is now number one dealer in Sweden in most of the customers surveys that Volvo Cars runs to measure customer satisfaction. We talk about this journey and what the drivers are. A main reason is that management has focused on supporting all the employees in their daily work and Einar as CEO meets and talk with all the 100 employee in three sites every week. There is a huge interest in the revolution at Rejmes and Volvo Cars Sweden has assigned Rejmes to be benchmark when it comes to customers satisfaction. Please welcome to the conversation.
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90. Summer special - Xiaolin Yuan head of Volvo Asia Pacific
07/25/2018
90. Summer special - Xiaolin Yuan head of Volvo Asia Pacific
Summer special - Xiaolin Yuan head of Volvo Asia Pacific Xiaolin was appointed Senior vice president of the market area Volvo Asia Pacific in February 2017. It includes China that is the largest single market of Volvo Cars today. We talk about the reasons of the rapid growth for Volvo in China and especially what challenges Volvo Cars meet. We also talk about the Volvo culture and what Xiaolin learned during his stay at Volvo Headquarter in Göteborg when he held the position as head of Charimans Office at Volvo. Welcome to this episode!
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89. Care by Volvo featuring Patrik Illerstig
06/28/2018
89. Care by Volvo featuring Patrik Illerstig
Care by Volvo featuring Patrik Illerstig Care by Volvo is a new way to address the need and wish for hassle free car ownership and mobility. The concept was launched a year ago and since February this year Patrik Illerstig joined Volvo as the CEO in order to boost the concept. Patrik came with a lot of experience from E-commerce and joined our company after looking for a really challenge, a company with sound values and a word class company. And the choice fell on Volvo Cars. The concept “Care by Volvo” is already a success in the US and is now spread all over the globe. It’s essential to build on a common bas concept but adapt it to the needs and the conditions on each market. Volvo Cars is again a pioneer and a frontier. An idea we discuss is to use some of our company cars in order to test and develop the concept to the next level. Who doesn’t want a hassle free car? Welcome to this inspiring and challenging episode!
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88. The Agile transformation
06/13/2018
88. The Agile transformation
The Agile transformation Volvo Cars is just in the middle of a dramatic change in how we work together. We call it the Agile transformation and is about a fundamental change in how we interact with one another. The Agile methodology is valid when we develop anything from a new software to an entire new car. In this episode you will meet Anna Sandberg and Magnus Lindh, that are deeply involved in supporting this change. They both believe that Agile work methods drastically can increase the efficiency in the daily work and help everyone to do a better job. It build on trust and the believe that everyone wants to contribute and do their part of the task without need of a lot of control. That will make the job both more inspiring and more fun and the result will be better. But of course we need training so get ready and get on board! Welcome to this inspiring and challenge episode!
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87. Emelie Emanuelsson a true womengineer
05/22/2018
87. Emelie Emanuelsson a true womengineer
Emelie Emanuelsson a true womengineer Emelie is one of two founders of the organization Womengineer. Their goal is that 2030 50% of all graduated engineers in Sweden should be women. They believe in that the reason why women is still a minority at the technical university’s in Sweden is because lack of information to possible girl candidates. Emelie is an employee at Volvo Cars since 2015 and holds a position as product owner for clean air quality and enjoy her work and find it extremely fun, exciting and developing. The work with womengineer is all voluntary and includes organisation an yearly event called IGE(Introduce a Girl to Engineering)-day that let nearly 2000 girl from 12-19 year to visit a workplace and understand what it could be working as an engineer. Volvo Cars was one of the sponsors earlier this spring and opened up for several girls to visit our offices and plants. Get inspired and listen to Emelie – a true role model for coming generation of womengineer!
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86. Meet Shahbaz Kahn - traffic general in Goteborg
05/08/2018
86. Meet Shahbaz Kahn - traffic general in Goteborg
Meet Shahbaz Kahn - traffic general in Goteborg Shahbaz is newly appointed chairman of the Traffic board of Goteborg. We have an intense discussion in Goteborg about the new train tunnel “the west link” and that discussion is something that we handle. But most important is how the world leading mobility cluster in Goteborg that has rapidly developed the last 10 years can collaborate with the city and the academy to strengthen all parties. The city is already a test arena for new technologies with the “Driveme-project” and others but we have all opportunities to develop it to a entirely new level. When it comes to banning diesel cars in the city Shahbaz is clear that he is against this kind of prohibition. This will only close the city for people with less resources and is not a tool he want to use. He wants to work with positive motivation so people voluntary pick traffic solutions that is both efficient and good for the environment. And he is very interesting in visiting Volvo Cars to explore possible opportunities to collaborate in finding both short- and long-term solutions on traffic challenges. Welcome to the conversation.
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85. Meet Håkan Samuelsson, CEO at Volvo Cars
04/09/2018
85. Meet Håkan Samuelsson, CEO at Volvo Cars
Meet Håkan Samuelsson, CEO at Volvo Cars Volvo Cars had a great 2017 and a fantastic start of 2018 with lots of great achievements and awards. Håkan’s view is that this has created a sound self-confidence in the whole company that also is necessary in order to move forward. But we cannot lean back on old victories. Håkan introduce a new idea of an organisation that builds on a clear vision and mission but without all detailed roles and hierarchies. An organisation that organize itself and is much more flexible than today’s organisation. His vision is to release people from detailed role description that hinder them, and instead “bring out the best” from each and every one and be able to get passionated about the job. Please welcome to a challenging and interesting conversation!
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