The world's largest manufacturing giant – the two-trillion auto industry – is in the grip of a revolution. The future will include cars that Henry Ford and Karl Benz could hardly have imagined. They will drive themselves, will not use oil and will come in radical shapes and sizes.

But the road to that future is fraught. Today, the top contenders are two traditional manufacturing giants, the United States and Japan, and a newcomer, China. The outcome of this global competition will determine how we move, how we work and how we live on Earth.

Join New America for a conversation with Levi Tillemann, author of The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future, and Daniel Yergin, author of The Quest and The Prize, about the centuries-long struggle between automakers and the battle to Build the car of the future.

Follow the discussion online using #DrivingInnovation and follow @NewAmerica.

Attendees

Levi Tillemann
Author, The Great Race: The Global Search for the Car of the Future
Jeff and Cal Leonard Fellow, New America
@levitd

Daniel Yergin
Author, The Quest and the Prize
Board member New America
Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
@DanielYergin

http://newamerica.org/fellows/driving-innovation/

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