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Pete Bigelow, reporter at the Automotive News.

How you doing, Pete? This is Leslie Allen and welcome to the show everybody.

Thanks Leslie. I'm doing great today and we'll be doing even better when we bring up our conversation here momentarily with today's guest who is Andrew Maynard, a professor at Arizona State University and director of the school's Risk Innovation Lab among his many hats.

More on that in just a minute, but we'll be talking about automotive safety, technology, innovation,

and how we plan for the future very broadly.

A really great conversation that I'm excited

to bring to the audience today.

But first, Leslie, in the mobility world kind of a downcast week more more of these electric vehicle companies getting in in trouble with with Wall Street and the Securities Exchange Commission.

I know you were paying some attention to the latest with the company known as Elms, the

Electric Last Mile Solutions Company. the electric last mile solutions company what what happened there?

Yeah for those who don't know electric last mile solutions is a commercial

EV maker and this week or I should say last week the leaders of the company

resigned. We're talking about the CEO and the chairman both resigned and this was after an

investigation that found that they had purchased discounted equity in the

company just before it went public. So and they've had to restate their financial statements

going all the way back to the company's inception in 2020. So not very good times right now for Elms.

No, neither from Paraday Future, a similar situation

in which an internal review identified some inaccurate statements made by employees to

investors and this is just kind of this continuation of the story of all these companies that went public via I shouldn't say all these

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