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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 Mark Norman, managing partner at Venture Firm FM Capital.

We're going to talk about the state of growth investing, slow roll of electric vehicles, energy storage

developments, and much more. But first we've got to look at this week's

headlines and for that I'm joined by my automotive news colleague and executive editor Jamie Butters.

Hi Jamie how are you today? Hey Pete doing good. How about you? I'm doing great

good to have you here today. I have fun this week.

I actually, I said to my wife the other day,

so you know what's fun, journalism.

We've been, I mean, it's been a busy week,

but we've been doing so much cool journalism that it's

really been very rewarding one story I got had fun editing this week from your team

was Molly Boygan wrote about a couple of senators asking the FTC to look

into how automakers share customer data and whether they gave truly informed consent.

I'm wondering how that story rang for you.

I found that one really interesting because on one hand I was thinking,

where are the senators been for the last 10 years this is not a new issue

data privacy concerns have popped up you know literally over the last decade I feel like this has been an ongoing simmer maybe now it's reaching the forefront but yes

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