Moving Fast & (Un)breaking Things with Ya-Ting Liu

Decarbonizing aviation has proven to be tougher than initially anticipated - but what if that's because hopes have been set too high? In this episode, host Nick Perloff-Giles sits down with Kevin Noertker, CEO and co-founder of Ampaire, an aviation company retrofitting existing planes with hybrid engines that cut costs by 50-70% while significantly reducing emissions, to talk about the policy, technological, and mechanical constraints to transforming flying.

The curb is under more demand than ever - cyclists need a place to park, vehicles need a place to charge, and AVs suddenly need a place to stop. But the curbs we have are far from the curbs we need: so how do we get there? On this episode, host Nick Perloff-Giles sits down with Gene Oh of Tranzito, an urban mobility and smart city operator that specializes in curbside management, secure bike parking, and multimodal transportation infrastructure, to discuss the opportunities for curbs ahead, and the challenges that lie in between.

With less than 2 months until CoMotion LA 2026, we look back at some of the new mobility challenge winners from the last decade to catch up on their progress and identify strategies to make the perfect pitch.

Nearly 40 million people in the United States live in a multifamily building, where EV charging access has to be shared. But the majority of both funding and infrastructure devoted to charging is still either in the roadway or in single family homes. What's an apartment-dweller to do? Enter SWTCH Energy, which rapidly scales the EV charging network in multifamily and commercial buildings; host Nick Perloff-Giles sat down with Jeremy Cohen, Head of Real Estate Partnerships, to talk about the challenges of compliance, the future of charging, and what's in store for the market more broadly. Click here to learn more about CoMotion LA and get a 10% discount on tickets: https://events.bizzabo.com/845187?promo=FASTFORWARD

While Waymo and other autonomous players continue to expand, they're running into a much older problem: how to manager their growing fleets. That's the slow, complicated, unsexy part of running mobility services that involves cleaning, charging, and moving vehicles around to where they need to be, and that's the business Bojan Jukic, CEO of Wunder Mobility, is in. On this episode, he and host Nick Perloff-Giles talk about how the micromobility revolution predicted autonomy, what Europe is doing well, and what the future holds for fleet management.