Digital Key Revolution In Your Pocket

In Wheel Time Podcast · Oct 6, 2026 · 30m · transcript

Your car key has been the same basic idea for decades, and then suddenly it isn’t. We sit down with Ian Televik, Senior Marketing Director at the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), to unpack the fast-moving shift toward connected cars and digital car keys and what it means for everyday drivers who just want things to work.

We break down what a connected car really is: a vehicle that can communicate wirelessly with other cars, smartphones, wearables, EV chargers, and more. From there, we get specific about CCC’s role as a global standards body bringing together automakers, Tier 1 suppliers…