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Hi everybody,

Hi everybody.

Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility.

I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

My guest today is no stranger to the Shift Podcast. I'm pleased to welcome back Chelsea Sexton,

the longtime electric vehicle enthusiast and evangelist,

who's now a senior consultant in the Department of Energy's loans program office.

We're going to talk about how the rubber meets the road in terms of how billions of federal

dollars get loaned out as part of the Biden administration's plans to accelerate the electrification

transition.

But first, we have headlines, and I'm pleased to be joined by my automotive news colleague

Molly Boygan. Molly how are you today? I'm good thanks Pete how are you? I'm hanging in

there Molly but glad to be joining you here today.

No coincidence of course, but one of the big headlines from the mobility landscape this week

happens to involve the Energy Department approving a big loan for a lithium mining operation that you've been

writing a lot about. Can you fill us in on the latest? Yes, happy to. So last week the

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