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welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your

host and reporter at the Automotive News. Hello, this is Leslie Allen, editor

Shift magazine. And it's Alexis St John,, covering Tech and Suppliers.

Joining us on the podcast today is Raven Hernandez, founder and CEO of Earth Rides, a ride-hailing

startup based in Nashville, Tennessee that only uses EVs in its fleets.

But speaking of EVs first, Leslie and Alexa, a lot of news in the

EV realm this week with President Biden putting forth his infrastructure plan.

What all in that addresses electric vehicles?

Well, Pete, it was a really exciting week of news coming out of the Biden administration.

We heard quite a bit actually about electric vehicles and renewable power and the electric

grid for that matter as part of the president's 2.25 trillion dollar infrastructure plan.

We heard about it midweek last week and you know one of the notable things is that Biden's asking Congress to

dedicate more spending to EV rebates charging ports and electric school buses and a lot of other electric vehicle initiatives.

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