Hi everybody welcome to shift a podcast about mobility I'm Pete Bigow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hi everyone, this is Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

And Alexis St. John, covering tech and suppliers.

Joining us on the podcast today is Robbie Diamond,

the founder, president and CEO of Securing America's

Future Energy Organization that advocates for oil independence,

especially in the transportation realm.

But first, Leslie and Alexa, a busy week

as usual on the mobility front.

What were some of the headlines that caught your attention?

I suppose one of the biggest stories

was the public debut of Luminar. Luminar is going public and Luminar.

Luminar is going public and we've talked about this company,

I believe in the past,

this is a company that is one of the pioneers in the area of LIDAR. And so, Pete, what do you think this means when we're seeing

LIDAR companies start to go public?

It certainly is the latest example of the SPAC-ia we've seen across the industry and EVs and now sensors.

But Loominar is a very well-funded company that has a lot of investment from the traditional auto industry.

So this may be a, you know, not the poster child of the trend so much as a, you know, a promising company that is, you know, making its debut on public markets.

And we should mention that Lumenar CEO Austin Russell is on our sister podcast the daily drive at Automotive News this week so so be sure and to check that out

And speaking of plugs for Autom news products.

I just wanted to let the audience know

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