Hi everybody welcome to shift a podcast about mobility I'm Pete Bigelow your

host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hi is Leslie Allen editor of Shift magazine.

And Alexis A. John, covering Tech and Suppliers.

Joining us in just a few minutes on today's episode is Nicholas Lang, the director for the Center for Mobility Innovation at Boston Consulting Group.

He's going to discuss the company's latest report on urban mobility meltdowns

and whether self-driving vehicles might have a role in preventing them.

But first, Leslie and Alexa,

I noticed last week as I was reading about the new

lucid air electric vehicle that we passed the milestone of sorts that I had

never heard of before.

Last Wednesday, our listeners may or may not have known,

was World Evie Day.

I did not know such a thing exists. Leslie, what did you make of that?

Well, Pete, the reason that you didn't know such a thing existed is that it had not

existed until Wednesday of last week.

And this is an initiative that was started in Europe.

There's a company called Green. TV, which

is a media company that focuses on sustainability issues.

And they partnered up with ABB, which is a Swiss technology company.

You might know them from their sponsorship

of Formula E Racing.

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