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Hi, I'm Leslie Allen. I am the Mobility Editor for Automotive News.

I am excited about today's podcast because we have Denise Gray from LG Chem Power joining us to talk about batteries

and that's going to tie in perfectly Leslie with the new shift magazine

that's kind of hitting the new stands today.

That's right, Pete, it's all about batteries in this new edition of Shift.

And those of you who subscribe to Automotive News or have access to our website, please check

it out.

We're going to be talking all about batteries

especially issues related to safety of batteries. Excellent. I think it's such a

timely topic right now because we've got all these predictions out there about this this coming EV tipping points where suddenly all the internal combustion power trains are going to go away and yet there's this new study

out this week from MIT's energy initiative that says actually the battery costs aren't going

to fall is as fast as many of it's predicted and I wonder what that's going to do to all these

lofty predictions of the EV evolution. What do you think? That is a very good question,

Pete, because cost is a major factor a lot of people talk about

range anxiety and things like that but right now it's just prohibitively

expensive for many people to buy an electric vehicle it really. I think when you start looking at what the comparison,

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