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Today we are talking about one of the biggest topics in the marketplace right now: E-Commerce. eBay created a lot of buzz at Automechanika Frankfurt because they setup their E-Commerce Networking Lounge in Hall 4. Our guest, Michael, who is responsible mainly for eBay's automotive aftermarket business in Germany is telling us more about their strategy, how market participants can sell on eBay, what value they are bringing as a marketplace and which customers they are trying to address.

We catch up with Caruso on what the current state of the platform and regarding the access to in-vehicle data is. How Zurich Insurance and Caruso came together as partners. How to manage or better how to get user consent when accessing vehicle data. What data is exactly available for service providers. Why insurance companies especially Zurich is way more agile and innovative than you may think – and not a big dinosaur. How the lost of ownership will affect the mobility industry and what it means for their respective companies when the big tec players like Apple and Google...

We talked about additional services in ecommerce for workshops, how they are expanding into the car sales business as well, the ongoing consolidation of the tire market, how the metaverse will be the next big step for his business – how he adapts best practices from the fashion industry because he’s also involved in there and we talked about basketball because he is also the owner of the Basktes Würzburg – a german first league from the home city of the German Wunderkind Dirk Nowitzki.

Today we're dealing with one of the biggest topics in the aftermarket right now: Sustainability. Our guest Jan Bambas from Schaeffler is the perfect fit for that. We are talking about Schaeffler's sustainability program and were they are currently at in their roadmap. Why sustainability can only be achieved in close collaboration with their partners and why sustainability will be one of the key KPIs of parts manufacturers in the future.

We'll be talking about the Italian Aftermarket & the differences to other markets in Europe, developing value-add services for workshops, the role of digitisation, the ongoing electrification of the car park and the effects on a lubricant distributor.

We talked about electrification and the latest study conducted by CLEPA in cooperation with Roland Berger. The importance of circular economy with electric vehicles, the current state of invehicle data, that sustainability will be a competitive KPI for manufacturers in the future and his view on big e-commerce players stepping into the aftermarket.

Marco is one of the biggest advocates of increasing the data quality in the market. So he is highly knowledgable in all things data related. He has also a global perspective on the topic because he's very experienced in working the emerging markets. We also discussed the timing & availability of data, global differences especially in China, what the electrification means for a brake manufacturer and how TMD Friction is going to tackle the e-commerce topic.

We start the first season of TecTalk with quite a big topic: Sustainability – or more precisely Circular-Economy. Maria Bonelli and her company C-ECO are one of the biggest experts in the field. They are kind of hidden sustainability champions & mostly known for their core management service brand Coreman-Net. We discussed the challenges that come with the electrification of the car park, why companies must now invest into the sustainability topic, what role publicly funded projects play for C-ECO and how the whole topic will get even more drive with a new generation of leaders stepping into the market.

In this episode we are diving deep into the International Trading Group Business with our guest Robert Stevens, Director Workshop Networks and Technology at GROUPAUTO International. David really is an aftermarket veteran with experience along the whole value chain. We've been talking about the latest expansions of GroupAuto especially South-Africa, the state of telematics data, why e-commerce is more about additional services than pricing and about the fact that changes in the market always happen more slowly than we initially expect.

Christian is giving a quick introduction of what TecTalk is about and what to expect from the first season of our new Automotive Aftermarket Podcast.