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Hello, and welcome to the Automotive News Shift Podcast, where we bring you the latest on

automotive technology, trends, and transformation.

I'm Molly Boygan, tech and innovation reporter at Automotive News.

Today's guest is Maria Anhalt, CEO of Electrobit.

She gives us her take on why the auto industry needs to speed up development timelines.

We are so squeezed between economical, technological, organizational pressure

for getting everything much quicker at a better cost.

So everything that we can do to speed up the development, to reduce the cost,

to enable people to run faster is a goody.

It's a good thing for the customers.

But first, let's talk about the week.

For that, I'm joined by my colleague Larry Veliquet, who covers Toyota, Subaru, and Mazda for

automotive news.

Larry, you just got back from California.

Are you California dreaming?

What were you up to?

Molly, A, thanks for having me on the shift podcast.

And B, I came back to a lot of snow.

And I left, you know, 72-degree weather for,

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