Listed below are edited highlights from the most recent episodes of “Day by day Drive,” Automotive Information‘ weekday podcast, hosted by Jason Stein and Steve Schmith.

“Once I was rising up my dad was a really dominant sort of employer. He was concerned in every little thing. He was honest, however powerful. Once I bought out of faculty, a few yr later, he realized that perhaps I had some particular expertise. He reversed his function from being the dominant participant, the CEO-COO, into an adviser function and gave me house, allowed me to make errors.” — Seller Mike Maroone, CEO of Maroone USA, reflecting on his father, Al, who died in February at age 98

“We’re a digital-forward model. The shopper can come on to polestar.com and really study concerning the product, configure the product, perform the transaction on-line with a retail companion within the again finish, assess their trade-in and all the way in which down to really have the automotive delivered to their entrance door. So every little thing is from a digital-forward course of.” — Gregor Hembrough, head of Volvo’s Polestar USA

“We’re very, very satisfied that it is higher to develop in a phase that’s rising than put money into a phase that’s going the other way, and that’s combustion engines.” — Anders Gustafsson, CEO of Volvo Vehicles USA, on the automaker’s plan to sell only electric vehicles after 2030

“There isn’t a doubt there are Mitsubishi sellers which can be so dedicated to the franchise and thru the final decade of ups and downs haven’t waned from that dedication. What we’d like at Mitsubishi is to ensure that — it is beginning with product — that we get all 330 sellers equally dedicated to this franchise.” — Ken Konieczka, vice president of sales operations, Mitsubishi Motors North America

“I believe that the important thing lesson and takeaway right here is you could’t put together for every little thing. Regardless of how nicely you put together, you’ll be able to mitigate nevertheless it’s exhausting to keep away from the influence altogether.” — Hans Greimel, Automotive Information Asia editor, on the 10-year anniversary of the earthquake that crippled Japan’s auto industry and efforts today to battle the microchip shortage

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