Hi everybody, welcome the shift, podcast about mobility. My name is Pete Bigelow. I'm your host and reporter at the automotive news.

Our guest today on the podcast is Sue Huang, founder and CEO of Factorial Energy, a battery technology startup that's quickly developing solid-state batteries

and working with some of the world's largest automakers.

I'll be talking to you about some of the company's efforts to knock EV charging times down

to mere minutes in particular, and we're going to talk about what it's like to be a battery

startup at this particular highly politically charged moment in time. We have been relatively

well sheltered from this geopolitical tension and all this policy shifts here. And we also have

made a lot of great commercial progress.

So stay tuned for that. First, we have a look at this week's headlines from the mobility realm.

And for that, I am joined by my colleague, Lonnie Eilif.

Lonnie, welcome back. How are you today?

I'm doing good. It's great to be here.

Great to have you. Lots of news this week on your B in particular with Lucid.

They've got a new hands-free driving system, big new partnership with Uber on autonomous vehicles.

Let's start with the hands-free technology. What exactly is Lucid up to for cars that have human drivers, Lonnie?

Yeah.

So, you know, Lucent's always sold itself as, you know, a tech forward company, right?

Obviously, it's coming on the tail of, you know, Tesla and these other companies.

And they built a lot of technology into their cars, cameras, radar,

LIDAR.

And so the promise was always that it was going to have, you know,

all the cool level two driver assistance features and then move on to like level three

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