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

I'm Alexa St. John, Tech and Suppliers reporter for Automotive News.

And joining Pete and Alexa, this is Leslie Allen,

editor of Shift magazine.

Hi, everybody.

How are you guys doing today?

Haying in there, Pete.

You know, of course, our homework continues. That's right. We are remote again today and probably

are for the foreseeable future as as everybody knows the coronavirus impacting our personal work schedules and in

the auto industry and mobility industries overall. Leslie I think you were just checking out some of the

the latest grim figures and statistics on on auto sales. What's the picture?

It's pretty frightening as a matter of fact I mean I was just looking at these numbers and if I'm looking at this right at least so far

March auto sales are down more than 46%.

If you can visualize that, I mean, the auto industry

have been doing pretty well this year.

And I mean, to see a 46% drop in just one month.

And for the quarter, now not everybody reports on the same schedule.

Some automakers are reporting only quarterly,

and some are still reporting monthly,

but for the quarter so far it's 13.8% down I mean we have

automakers talking about wanting to go back to cash for clunkers and trying to do whatever they can to try to get these sales back on track.

I mean, even automakers that traditionally do pretty well.

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