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Hi, everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter of the automotive news.

Joining me on the podcast today, I am pleased to welcome back to Shift, autonomous vehicle, legal and safety expert, Bryant Walker Smith.

We'll be talking about the Tesla cyber cab,

Waymo's expansion, cruises comeback, and much more in just a moment. First, my colleague Hannah Lutz joins us for a look at this week's headlines. Hi, Hannah. How are you today? Hi, Pete. Doing well.

How about you? Doing good. I know you have been

busy in the office because I've barely seen you, but that must indicate there's a lot of electric

vehicle news this week. Tell us what's going on. Yeah, a lot of EV product news really across the

newsroom by our colleagues. So for one, Lucid said it would open orders for the gravity crossover next month.

That news came out this week.

So the Lucid Air is already on sale and the gravity crossover has been anticipated and, you know,

orders were open.

So that will be exciting for those consumers.

Cadillac also said it would add the V-series performance variant to the

Cadillac Lyric EV next year. So give the lyric buyers an added performance element there.

And then the biggest news, Scout unveiled its electric pickup and SUV, and it's planned for selling

them without dealers last week.

So that was a big deal.

That is indeed a big deal.

And I'm going to take that last one first here, maybe.

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