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Hi everybody, welcome to shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your

host and reporter at the Automotive News. Joining me on the podcast today, I'm

pleased to have back on the podcast Sam Abel Samid, principal analyst at Guidehouse

Insights. We're kind of going to go backward this week. Sam is going to break down the big

news of the week, which is Ford's E.

Strategy shift.

He and I also talk about General Motors Software Strategy in the wake of the company

laying off a thousand or so software engineers.

For a look at everything else by

automotive news colleague Hannah Lutz joins us. Hannah how are you today?

Hi Pee doing well how are you? I'm doing great this morning.

Uh, so Hannah we have these big fluctuations, perhaps in these short term with EVs,

and our upcoming look at EV Strategy with Sam.

You have been focused on the long term this week, writing a story about

EV battery chemistry and which one essentially will stand the test of time.

What did you learn this week?

Yeah, we had a big package on battery chemistries and recycling and charging.

And one of the stories looked at the most popular chemistry and my reporting found that it will stand the test of time and that's a

nickel-rich lithium-ion battery that powers pretty much every EV on the road now and they all have some

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