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Hi and

and welcome to shift.

Hi and welcome to Shift, I'm Hannah Lex in for Pete Bigelow.

Today we'll hear Pete's conversation with Shay Nauterogen, a partner at investment firm Mobility Impact Partners.

But before we get there, I'm with Jamie Butters,

executive editor of Automotive News,

to discuss some of the news of the week.

Hi Jamie, how are you?

I'm good, Hannah.

Glad to be back on the Shift Podcast. Yeah happy to have you. So Jamie we've seen lots of movement in the

EV market recently and I want to start by asking about a column that you wrote this week. You wrote about EVs and chocolate. So it was sort of an unlikely pair. What's the

connection? Yeah, last week you know I was hearing all this coverage about

the the cocoa bean market and the price of, you know, processed manufactured

chocolate and they're just record highs. They were at a record high. Cocoa beans were record high

prices coming into the year and they've since doubled.

All the manufacturers are basically passing on the cost to the consumers either with smaller,

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