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Com slash seminar. Welcome back to Futurismo, an automotive news podcast about the next 25 years in the auto industry. My name is

Shraaz Amaz and we are here to gaze into our crystal balls and you know how it

goes. And if you don't you can go back and listen to our previous episodes from the beginning at

auto news.com slash podcast. I'm Ursula Zorilli and today we are going to be thinking

broader, Way broader.

We'll be reporting from Northern Europe all the way to the west coast of the U.S.

Because it's still pretty unclear if by 2030 people will want to own a car at all or own five of them

We're looking past any single car company and we're going to talk about how mobility could transform the whole transportation market.

That includes changing how we've been buying and using cars for a century, and what that means

for some of the U.S.'s most visible small businesses.

We're going to see a wholesale change in our business.

And that's from the sales process,

to the service process, and possibly even to whether a vehicle that we sell

has one owner or many owner.

And we'll find out how these new business models could open up mobility to a much wider audience.

We're trying to bring mobility so easy that it's free.

But first, Ursula, you have a story of a vision of transportation

from somewhere we don't often talk about at Automotive News.

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