Ecological Motoring Initiative

Future Motoring

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Moving together into better futures while still respecting the past. Part of the Ecological Motoring Initiative. Published on Substack by Desirable Unknown. www.desirableunknown.com

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Feb 5, 2025

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Episodes

Bridging Classic Cars with the Future 05.02.2025

This week's guests are Craig Ranson and Rob Harvey of Bridge Classic Cars.  In this episode of Future Motoring, And enters  the world of Bridge Classic Cars, where classic car restoration meets innovative sustainable practices meets community and authenticity. Craig Ranson and Rob Harvey discuss their passionate work on classic cars, the integration of synthetic fuels, and their engaging medi...

Bridging Classic Cars & Sustainable Fuels 04.02.2025

In this episode of Future Motoring, EMI enters the world of Bridge Classic Cars as our host Andrea Hiott speaks with Craig Ranson and Rob Harvey. Bridge is the place where classic car restoration meets innovative sustainable practices meets community and authenticity. Craig Ranson and Rob Harvey discuss their passionate work on classic cars, the integration of synthetic fuels, and their engaging m...

Loss and Liberation: Feminine Healing with filmmaker lori lozinski and philosopher andrea hiott 13.08.2024

Filmmaker lori lozinski on Motorcycling, Nature, and Self-Discovery Award-winning producer and filmmaker lori lozinski, renowned for her poignant short films 'The Pilgrimage' and 'A Motorcycle Saved My Life,' opens up about navigating personal loss, challenging societal norms, and achieving balance between masculine and feminine energies through the liberating experience of mot...

More 'Trojan Horses' with Luke Mack: art, sustainability, and forever motoring 12.07.2024

Join philosopher Andrea Hiott as she delves into a captivating conversation with Luke Mack, a visionary designer, and artist. Discover Luke's journey from Michigan to Seoul, Korea, influenced by his father's automotive design career at General Motors. Unveil the philosophy behind 'forever motoring' as embracing discomfort and positioning "Trojan Horses" in art and design so as to awaken new perspe...

More Trojan Horses: Designer (Rivian, Arc Boats) and Artist Luke Mack 07.07.2024

Could we have planned relevance instead of planned obsolescence in auto design? Will sustainable transportation come through a Trojan Horse? What does speed look like in design? Does the human spirit push the boundaries of propulsion? Join philosopher Andrea Hiott as she delves into a captivating conversation with Luke Mack, a visionary designer, and artist. Luke helped design the R1T for Rivian a...

Detroit and the Future with Autoextremist Peter DeLorenzo 12.06.2024

In this episode of Forever Motoring, host and philosopher Andrea Hiott welcomes Peter De Lorenzo, famously known as the Auto Extremist. Peter is recognized for his influential and candid blog, running since 1999, which has significantly impacted automotive journalism. They discuss Peter's upbringing in Detroit during the golden age of the automobile industry, his deep-rooted love for cars, hi...

Fossil Fuel Funding & Disinformation with philosopher Craig Callender 19.04.2024

Craig is Tata Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and a Founding Faculty and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California San Diego. He is also part of the Campus Climate Change Committee, which has seen some historic enactment relative to the university and environmental policies. Here he and Andrea discuss disinformation and ethical responsibility withi...

Future Guardians: A New Model of Movement with Hugo Spowers 31.03.2024

Shaping the Future of Mobility: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Transportation A conversation with Riversimple's CEO Hugo Spowers and philosopher Andrea Hiott which presents a holistic view on transforming mobility and car usage, centered around sustainable and innovative approaches. Featuring insights from Hugo Spowers leadership in creating hydrogen cars, it delves into the company&apo...

The Right to Repair with IndyCar's Tino Belli 11.02.2024

In this episode, Andrea Hiott has a conversation with Tino Belli, a renowned race car engineer who has a storied career in the industry, which includes over 14 years at Andretti, work at March Engineering, and being the director of aerodynamic development at Indy Car. The conversation touches on the challenges and triumphs Belli experienced in his career, the importance of balance and perspective...

Childhood, Choppers, and the ICE test with Ola Stenegärd 11.01.2024

What it Takes: How to become an Astronaut with legendary motorcycle designer Ola Stenegärd. The dialogue explores Ola's journey from a young child growing up in the Swedish countryside to becoming a renowned figure in the motorcycle industry. Key topics include the thrill of creating and riding motorcycles, the importance of design in creating vehicles, Ola's journey to becoming a design...

Craftwerk & Berlin's Electric Motoring Festival with Max Funk 24.12.2023

Philosopher Andrea Hiott talks with Maximilian Funk, a key figure in the motoring world who is the brains behind several significant events and places like the first electric motorcycle festival in Berlin, the Reload Land Festival, and the community garage and co-working space, Craftwerk. The interview touches upon Max's life, influences, his interest in cars and motorcycles, entrepreneurship...

The Sustainability of Sim Racing & Real Life with Saorise Fitzpatrick 09.12.2023

Saorise Fitzpatrick is a delightful human being and the 2023 winner of Screen to Speed and we are posting this conversation with her on the eve of the Screen to Speed Holiday Invitational , a very special event where star real life racecar drivers compete with sim racers. Saorise won the Sim Racing competition first,  then got to race for real at the Las Vegas speedway in a Porsche with Sabre Cook...

Aerodynamic Imaginaries with Hugo Eccles 29.10.2023

Hugo Eccles, co-founder of Untitled Motorcycles and designer of the XP Zero and the Hyper Scrambler , discusses the imaginaries of industrial design and how they might take flight, if only we can unleash ourselves from past constraints and open to new relations with what we use and make. Our objects should not be one-night-stands, Hugo says; they should change together through space and time. Quit...

Birdmen & Balance with Lawrence Goldstone 31.08.2023

“Glenn Curtiss was more important to modern flight than the Wright brothers,” says this week's guest, Lawrence Goldstone, the award-winning author (or co-author with his wife Nancy) of more than twenty books. We talk about Glenn Curtiss , the Wrights brothers and early flight; Lefty Gomez stopping the 1937 World Series to watch a plane, and the daredevil Lincoln Beachey. We also talk about wh...

Drifting with Leona Chin 31.07.2023

Leona Chin is one of the most famous motorsport athletes in the world, a reality TV star in China and Malaysia, and a mentor to young women in Asia who want to go into motorsports. She's also a world class Drifter. It all started when she convinced her mother to let her buy a Nissan 180 SX... Watch the opening spoof with over 20 million views here on the video version of this podcast . Leona...

Feeling Alive: Eros & Motorcycling with Paul d'Orleans 17.07.2023

This episode is about the feeling of being alive , and the flow of time, style, and sensuality . Looking back at the ways we've moved means looking back at what matters.   Paul d'Orleans is an exceptional traveler and guide along these paths. As an artist, author, entrepreneur, rider, motorcycle historian, and curator, he has found ways to connect and inspire us, way-making towards great...

FOREVER MOTORING: The Dreamscape of Motoring with Jordan Cornille 28.06.2023

Jordan Cornille, the calm, composed, creative co-founder of Curtiss Motorcycles , opens us to the dreamscape of motoring. We talk about the ways dreams come true, how motoring has become the terrain of his own career as a designer and motoring strategist, and the importance of reframing the role motoring plays in our lives. We also discuss how all this might move us towards a more sustainable glob...

Alan Cathcart: Riding & Writing 07.06.2023

Celebrated journalist and racer 'Sir' Alan Cathcart brings the many worlds of motorcycling together through his riding and his writing. In this episode, we talk about the power of translation, "your thrill & your enjoyment", a shocking sensory experience from the Isle of Mann, and what it means to make your hobby into your livelihood. Alan also tells us why the answer is el...

Stefy Bau: Picture a Mountain 18.05.2023

Learning how to ride is learning how to live, says Stefy Bau, one of the all-time greats in motocross--winner of 3 World Championships, the Loretta Lynn, and many more. We discuss her career-ending injury and the life-lessons taught to us all by motorsports. We also discuss her time as CEO of an electric bike company, her new company, INIT (now the official AMA E-sports powerhouse for sim racing)...

Mark Wilsmore: Pilgrimage to the Ace 02.05.2023

Ace Cafe , the home of motoring, birth of the Cafe Racer, the place where Mods, Rockers, The Who, streamline modern, and the new electric rebels of London all live and intersect.  Speed is an addiction for Mark Wilsmore, the man who brought the Ace (back) to life. Per usual, we also talk about the edge: "the closer you get to death, the greater you value life."  Have a look at all the pl...

JT Nesbitt: Moonwalking with Michael 18.04.2023

Artist, designer, and engineer JT Nesbitt discusses why the high stakes of motorcycling make it one of the highest forms of art, and how sustainability requires a radical shift of perspective. JT's most recent bike is the Curtiss 1 , a light electric vehicle (LEV) that rethinks what forever motoring really means. Please join our brand new Patreon and support a community that loves its vehicle...

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