Highlights from the untouched ‘Day-to-day Force’ podcasts, June 27-29

Listed here are highlights from the untouched episodes of ‘Day-to-day Force’, Car Information‘ weekday podcast, June 27-29, hosted via Jamie Butters with Kellen Walker.

“The key theme that I’m using over and over again is that we’re not getting worse, and that’s a big difference from what we’ve seen in the last couple of years.” — Jonathan Smoke, Cox Car economist, at the company’s outlook for the left-overs of 2023 

“The BEV factory itself is really a virtual factory where they’re going to try to kind of cleave it off as a separate business — a standalone business within the Toyota empire. And it’s going to focus on all aspects of making battery electric vehicles.”  — Hans Greimel, Asia scribbler for Car Information, on Toyota’s plan to tackle Tesla with a thorough overhaul of its EV manufacturing 

“We call it ICE melting, because that’s what you’re going to start seeing as it falls off in volume.” — Mark Wakefield, chief of the automobile follow within the Americas and co-leader of the worldwide automobile and industrials follow at AlixPartners, at the company’s 2023 international automobile outlook

— Concentrate to those and alternative displays at autonews.com/dailydrive.