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In a few minutes I'll be talking with Michael Dunn, the CEO of Dunn Insights, who has some dire warnings for traditional automakers about what Chinese carmakers are up to here in the new year.

But first, we're bringing something back here in 2024 that we used to do here often on the podcast.

Each week I'm going to bring in another member of the

tech and innovation team here at Automotive News to talk about some of the biggest

stories and trends that we've covered in the past week and here to kick things off.

I'm pleased to welcome my colleague

Hannah Lutz. Hi Hannah how are you today? Hi Pete good, thanks for having me.

Hey it's CES week and we're kind of in the throes of preparations for what's kind of the biggest annual

text showcase on the calendar. Curious what sort of things you're seeing here in the early going,

what you are most looking forward to covering or perhaps looking forward to

avoiding.

Yeah, this is my first CES so it'll be a big deal, a busy time at the show. I cover electrification as we know and there's not a big charging

presence this year. We do have some startups that I'll try to visit and a few automakers, I know reported on will be at the show Honda is going to debut in an EV series and then otherwise it's a lot of focus on AI and autonomy, software defined vehicles, really getting technology into the car.

What have you been noticing?

Yeah, I think you kind of hit the nail on the head.

I think I've heard software to find vehicles that phrase keeps popping up over and over and over again so much that I think

You know we might be able to play a game or two with that every time we hear it we have to take a drink or something I don't know

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