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I'm your host Pete Bigelow.

Hi Pete, hi everybody.

This is Leslie Allen and welcome to the show.

Joining us on the podcast today is Assad Hussein, senior mobility analyst at Pitchbook.

We're going to talk about the big Ford news this week.

We're going to talk about air mobility, ride hailing a whole lot more.

We're going to really span the mobility world in our conversation with Assad and he'll give us a good perspective

on what investors are looking at these days.

But first, Leslie, obviously I just mentioned the big news this week.

Huge news, in fact, Ford is investing $7 billion.

Its biggest investment in its

a hundred and eighteen year history in terms of manufacturing in three battery

plants and an electric pickup truck manufacturing facility.

They are going all in.

What do you make of it?

Wow, this is huge news for Ford and for those communities

that are going to be getting those jobs with these plants

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