MotorTrend's Ed Loh & Jonny Lieberman take the show on the road to CES in Las Vegas where they chat with Electra Founder, Fabrizio Martini, and Professor Shai Shalev-Schwartz of Mobileye! FIRST, Fabrizio takes us through how Electra Vehicles is optimizing EV batteries through design, predictive analytics, and EVE-Ai Adaptive Controls (a NASA program first designed to explore the surface of Venus)! NEXT, the guys chat with Mobileye's Professor Shai Shalev-Schwartz about their role in humanity's pursuit of fully autonomous vehicles! PLUS, we're rolling out a BRAND NEW SEGMENT: Question of the Week! Submit your questions via YouTube comments, Instagram @LohDown @JonnyLieberman, or email us at MotorTrend@MotorTrend.com! Send us a question and WE'LL GIVE YOU FREE MERCH!

0:50 - NEW SEGMENT: Question of the Week!
8:31 - What is Electra Vehicles?
12:12 - Predicting failure using EVE-Ai Adaptive Controls.
19:22 - Partnerships.
22:30 - Using EnPower to design the next generation of batteries.
24:50 - Current state of automotive battery tech, and where we're headed.
26:38 - Are Solid State Batteries coming?
29:12 - Fabrizio's educational background.
31:45 - Software is the key.
35:15 - Battery life spans - "Batteries are a live organism."
37:45 - Battery best practices and future solutions.
40:13 - Electra's mission.
45:42 - Cloud & Data partners.
48:40 - The next generation of batteries.
53:50 - Ed & Jonny's reaction to the discussion with Fabrizio.
55:30 - What is Mobileye?
56:50 - REM (Road Experience Memory)
01:01:15 - Next gen safety - accuracy of 10 cm!
01:05:11 - Camera, Radar & Lidar.
01:09:21 - The path to full autonomy.
01:14:20 - Lidar & Radar vs Camera.
01:20:05 - Accounting for human error.
01:24:35 - Where are we on the road to full autonomy?
01:30:41 - Car experience advances in the coming years.