{"id":9639,"date":"2023-10-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:11:10","slug":"preview-future-car-podcast-lucas-di-grassi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/on-the-move\/preview-future-car-podcast-lucas-di-grassi\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview | Future Car Podcast | Lucas Di Grassi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome back to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/category\/the-future-car\/ed-bernardon\/\">Future Car Podcast<\/a>\u00a0where this week we are greeted by\u00a0Lucas Di Grassi, Formula E champion and former Formula 1 driver, to discuss the impact and direction that Formula E has taken the motorsports industry. Lucas will be slowing things down and discussing his own life experiences that have gotten him to where he is today, while giving his thoughts on the future of where motorsports will be. You won&#8217;t want to miss this one. Check out the trailer below \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Future Car Podcast | Trailer | Lucas Di Grassi\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kdzeGMUmmns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The new face of motorsports \ud83c\udfce\ufe0f<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucas breaks down where the motorsports industry as a whole is moving. With a long and decorated career in racing, his experience shines through with insightful takes on this topic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EV&#8217;s impact on the industry \ud83d\udd0b<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As we all know, every industry is moving towards using more electric, but nobody could have predicted the amount of buzz that it would create in the racing world. Hear Lucas discuss the impact that EV has taken on for Formula E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Technology from Formula E transferring to commercial world \ud83c\udf0e<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hear from Lucas and his take on how Formula E is directly impacting the commercial world through exciting new technology and engineering advancements.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/10\/lucas.jpg\" alt=\"Lucas Di Grassi - Formula E champion and former Formula 1 driver\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Lucas Di Grassi &#8211; Formula E champion and former Formula 1 driver<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <div class=\"text-body-medium break-words\" data-generated-suggestion-target=\"urn:li:fsu_profileActionDelegate:-2021486394\">Racing cars and building a better future.<\/div>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lucasdigrassi\/?originalSubdomain=mc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with Lucas on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bio-block row\">\n    <div class=\"col-3 order-first bio-pic\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/07\/Ed_Bernardon_Color-1-scaled-e1600198438346.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Bernardon, Vice President Strategic Automotive Initiatives \u2013 Host\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"col-9 bio-info\">\n        <div class=\"bio-header\">\n            <h4 class=\"speakerintro\">Ed Bernardon, Vice President Strategic Automotive Initiatives \u2013 Host<\/h4>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n            <div class=\"bio-biography\">\n<div class=\"bio-biography\">\n<p>Ed is currently VP Strategic Automotive Initiatives at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Responsibilities include strategic planning and business development in areas of design of autonomous\/connected vehicles, lightweight automotive structures and interiors. He is also responsible for Future Car thought leadership which includes hosting the Future Car Podcast and development of cross divisional projects. Previously he was a founding member of VISTAGY that developed light-weight structure and automotive interior design software acquired by Siemens in 2011, he previously directed the Automation and Design Technology Group at MIT Draper Laboratory.\u00a0 Ed holds an M.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT, B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue, and MBA from Butler.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"bio-contact\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/edward-bernardon-922442\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with Ed on LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to the\u00a0Future Car Podcast\u00a0where this week we are greeted by\u00a0Lucas Di Grassi, Formula E champion and former Formula&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85609,"featured_media":9642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,420],"tags":[353,348,371,373,299,332,385,330],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[888],"class_list":["post-9639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-the-move","category-ed-bernardon","tag-ai","tag-automotive-2","tag-digital-future","tag-digital-transformation-tag","tag-digitalization","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-podcast","tag-xcelerator"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2023\/10\/02_Siemens_Graphic_1280x720-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13029,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions\/13029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}