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WardsAuto Podcast: News Highlights and VueReal’s Reza Chaj on Lighting Innovation in Today’s New Vehicles

In this week’s podcast, we look at Subaru’s new BEV, Land Rover job cuts and how automakers can shorten development time of new lighting systems.

Published July 21, 2025
By Wards Staff

This week, WardsAuto podcast host David Kiley discusses Subaru adding to its all-electric lineup in the face of a projected rough period ahead for battery-electric-vehicle sales, and Jaguar Land Rover struggling with profit margins, resulting in white-collar job reductions.

Meanwhile, he touches on softening industry sales in the second half of 2025 and warnings of a lean fourth quarter.

Kiley also chats this week with Reza Chaji, founder and CEO of VueReal, an innovative automotive lighting company with a system that claims to cut development time in half.

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