Dr Paul Nieuwenhuis is co-Director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research (CAIR) at Cardiff University, which he joined in 1990. CAIR studies economic and strategic aspects of the world motor industry. He is a founder member of the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS). His main interests have been historic and environmental and publications have been in these areas, notably The Green Car Guide (1992), The Death of Motoring? (1997), The Automotive Industry and the Environment (2003)....Read More

The perennial question of what transport will look like in the future has been replaced, in recent years, with a far more important and urgent question; how will this transport be powered? As fossil fuels dwindle and new technology becomes necessary rather than desirable, how we get from A to B is climbing up the global political agenda.

No form of transport is as critical in this debate as the motor car. The internal combustion changed the way we live, but its power source is running dry so this month Comment Visions meets Dr Paul Nieuwenhuis, an academic, adviser, environmentalist and car enthusiast.

If that sounds like a contradictory CV it shouldn’t; Dr Nieuwenhuis’s twin passions for cars and the planet form the core of his work at Cardiff University where he is co-director of the prestigious Centre for Automotive Industry Research at the University’s business school. His work looks at the future of the motor car and, crucially, how the car will be powered in a world transformed by changes in energy demand and supply.

In this fascinating and wide-ranging interview Dr Nieuwenhuis discusses how local energy resources will lead to different solutions for different places, how cars will be built differently in the future and even proposes the idea of a world without car dealers!

Monday: 01:45, 05:15, 07:45, 10:45, 15:45
Tuesday: 22:45*, 14:15
Wednesday: 03:15, 07:45, 11:15, 14:15, 18:45
Thursday: 02:15, 05:15, 13:15, 15:15, 17:45, 19:45
Friday: 11:45, 15:15, 17:15
Saturday: 04:15, 09:15, 15:45, 18:45
Sunday: 00:15, 07:15, 09:15, 19:45, 22:45

*Starts Tuesday 22:45, all times CET.

Only broadcast in the first week of each month.