Speaker

John German

Technology Innovator

"As an analyst, there is a lot of information out there... and most of it is wrong."

Meet John German: the man who helped expose Volkswagen's emissions scandal.

Mr German has been involved with advanced technology and efficiency since joining Chrysler in 1976, where he spent 8 years in Powertrain Engineering working on fuel economy issues.

He is now US co-lead of the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), a small nonprofit organisation dedicated to helping to reduce vehicle emissions.

Mr German is also the author of a book on hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles published by SAE and a variety of technical papers, including the future of hybrid vehicles, technology costs and benefits, consumer valuation of fuel savings, feebates, and light truck trends.

Talks

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Seeing Through The Hype

John German•Technology

After an unsettled childhood and a nervous breakdown at 29, John figured out he had a real issue with negative self-talk. He would constantly put himself down. And so began a journey to fix himself by changing his underlying assumptions. To see throu...