{"id":992,"date":"2016-03-10T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carro.sg\/?p=992"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:24:00","slug":"women-in-car-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/women-in-car-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Prominent Women in the Car Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women in Car Industry<\/strong><\/h1>\r\n8th March 2016 is International Women's Day, and here are some great women in the car\u00a0industry.\r\n

\"1\"<\/a>Trista Schieffer<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

Lead Development Engineer for Battery Electric Vehicles<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\u201cI love problem-solving,\u201d said Schieffer. \u201cI collaborate with people to deliver efficient solutions to solve ride, handling, noise, vibration, comfort, storage, heating, cooling, safety, energy efficiency \u2013 all aspects of a vehicle. Together we make sure the parts and systems are integrated so the vehicle performs in the manner our customers anticipate. As vehicles rely less and less on traditional fuel systems \u2013 or, in certain cases, not at all \u2013 we face new challenges.\u201d\r\n\r\nTrista Schieffer is the one responsible for getting electric vehicles to meet the customer expectations for General Motors.\r\n\r\nShe is the person behind the development of\u00a0 Chevrolet Volt, Spark EV, Cadillac ELR as well as the Chevy Bolt concept, leading the GM\u2019s commitment to produce 500,000 electrified vehicles a year globally.\r\n

\"2\"<\/a>Mary Barra, CEO and Chairman of GM Company<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

Mary Barra was featured in the 2014 Time\u2019s \u201c100 Most Influential People in the World\u201d also the #1 in Fortune<\/a>'s Most Powerful Women list in 2015<\/h3>\r\nOn replacing traditional business executives with leaders who have technical expertise Mary Bara commented, \"We went back to really empowering the individual who knows every aspect of that vehicle and knows every trade-off they've made to get a great vehicle on the road ... So every vehicle has its own chief engineer, and it's single-point accountability ... I have seen a real transformation in just the short few months since we've made that change, in the sense of ownership and the commitment. Before we had some confusion as to who was really accountable and who was making the call. There's no confusion now.\" (Autoline This Week<\/em>\u00a0interview, October 12, 2012<\/a>)\r\n

\"3\"<\/a>Wang Fengying, CEO and Executive Director,<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

Great Wall Motor<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nWang Fengying was a major player that caused Great Wall Auto SUVs to surpass Jeep\u2019s sales a short duration. She was also the one who built the \u00a0$520 Million manufacturing plant in Russia.\r\n

\"4\"<\/a>Cheryl Tay<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

Motoring Journalist, Race Queen, and Race Driver<\/h3>\r\nCheryl Tay is in the all-female race kart team that participated in the OCBC corporate karting challenge.\r\n\r\nShe met many big shots in the motoring industry including world-renown racer Sebastian Vettel. She is also an online influencer in the world of motorsports and fitness, boosting her immense popularity.\r\n

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Women in Car Industry 8th March 2016 is International Women’s Day, and here are some great women in the car\u00a0industry. Trista Schieffer Lead Development Engineer for Battery Electric Vehicles \u201cI love problem-solving,\u201d said Schieffer. \u201cI collaborate with people to deliver efficient solutions to solve ride, handling, noise, vibration, comfort, storage, heating, cooling, safety, energy efficiency …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[725],"tags":[383,384,385,386,387,388],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-car-tips","tag-car-industry","tag-female-power","tag-girl-power","tag-international-womens-day","tag-women","tag-women-in-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15274,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/15274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carro.co\/sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}