Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charge show podcast where today we're catching up with Lars Rages, who is the chief technology officer for a company called NXP.

Now, NXP are responsible for designing and manufacturing a huge proportion of the semiconductors used by the automotive industry.

Now, for a long time, listeners, if you're thinking, hmm, this is a little bit of a deviation from your typical topics of electric vehicles and clean energy technologies, let me explain why we're catching up with Lars.

Well, first of all, he is just an absolutely extraordinary person. He is so interesting and

has so many weird and wonderful analogies to make this topic really, really digestible.

But more importantly than that, the semiconductor industry, and particularly when it comes

to automotive semiconductors,

gives us a really, really good indication of just where we're headed.

And the reason is that an electric vehicle has 10 times the amount of semiconductors

compared to its internal combustion engine counterpart.

And additionally, as we head towards a more connected set of automotive features

and more autonomous driving modes, what's happening in the semiconductor industry also gives

us that real sense of what we can expect from the automotive industry. And then on top of that,

as we move towards these more software-defined vehicles, so-called,

actually, the role of the semiconductor companies becomes even more important.

Now, NXP's breadth and reach is absolutely enormous, and to put it into perspective,

if they cease to exist tomorrow, just poof, disappeared,

then many of the cars on the road today just simply wouldn't start. So he is here

to give us a glimpse into what we can expect from the world of electric vehicles and the future

of automotive. Now before we get into the conversation, which was so enjoyable, I must say,

I want to define a couple of terms just so that we're all on the same page.

Now, first of all, we talk a lot about vehicle architecture. And when we say that, we simply

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