Welcome to the Pulse podcast on Everything Electric Cars.

It's a life and death decade for the automotive industry.

And on this podcast, for once, it's me hosting.

And I do apologize profusely for that.

Normally you have the lovely dulcet tones of Imogen Bogle and even once Robert

Llewellyn. But today it's me and there's a reason for that because I'm actually in Beijing

at Auto Beijing with the fantastic Elliot Richards who almost all of you will be familiar with.

Elliot's been our Chinese-based correspondent for many years now talking to us about everything that's going on

in China. And you cannot talk about the automotive industry these days without talking about China.

So we're here at Auto Beijing to have a look around. And today's podcast is going to be all about

the themes that are emerging from this show. Hello, Elliot. How are you? I'm very good. Thank you. How are you? I'm good. It's very surreal to be here with you and also where we are right now. Do you want to tell people where we are sat at this precise moment? Yeah, so for those of you, I guess, who are listening to this, we're actually sat on the CATL stand within a EVTOL aircraft by Auto Flight.

So we're in the back seats, very comfortable,

and our cameraman sitting in the pilot seat.

And there's two seats behind us as well.

So we're saying this is a perfect vehicle for Elliot and his wife and three children.

It might be a bit pricey, I suspect.

But the reality is we're here at Auto Beijing. So if there's

some background noise and you are listening into this, I do apologize. We've obviously done our

best to find a relatively soundproof place to conduct this podcast. So we're here inside this very

so futuristic vehicle talking about the show. And how are you more generally?

How is life treating you in, and it's just a whirlwind time to be here covering this subject,

right?

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