Episode #105 - Ford China, A Brief History, Merc's Digital Update, Geely Galaxy

Tu and Lei talk about the recently announced Leadership change at Ford China and Tu takes a few minutes to give a brief history of Ford China, where he worked briefly in the early 2010s.

Lei then shifts the conversation over to letting us know what he learned from the Mercedes Benz digital strategy and OS update in Sunnyvale, CA. This evolves into a broader discussion about Merc's global rollout strategy and how they'll work out the US vs. China vs. EU markets. Tu also points out that Merc will be partnering it's way to a complete HW/SW stack for connectivity and ADAS which is much different than a VW and other legacies who still want to keep most things 'in-house.'

The pod closes with a discussion on the new Galaxy brand that Geely unveiled in response to BYD's Yangwang premium brand and they both briefly talk about the differences between Chinese and American's tastes in connected features.