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Hi everybody.

Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility.

I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter of the Automotive. Welcome to the Shift, a podcast about mobility.

I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter

of the Automotive News.

Got a good episode for you today

that zeros in on the role utility companies are playing in ushering in in EV age.

I'm joined by Stephanie Leach and Christy Fleischman Grunky, both on the Clean Energy Solutions

team at Baltimore Gas and Electric for today's episode.

They're running some first of their kind programs that involve electrical vehicle

charging. It's really interesting stuff. But first today I'm joined by my

colleague Lonnie Eiliff to take a look at this week's headlines. Lonnie,

welcome to Shift and how are you today? I'm doing great. Great to be here. Excellent. Thanks so much for

joining us and I believe this is your your inaugural appearance on the shift

podcast so it is yeah you cover Tesla for Automotive News and what a great week to take a closer look at them.

We've got some third quarter results to discuss, some robot taxi things on the near horizon. Let's start with

earnings. Obviously there's an increase in deliveries of about 6.4% year

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