Hi everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

Hi everybody, it's Leslie Allen, editor of Shift magazine.

And Alexa St. John, covering tech and suppliers.

Joining us in just a few minutes on the podcast today

is Michelle Avery, the head of Automotive

and Autonomous Mobility at the World Economic Forum.

She's going to discuss how the pandemic is upended, a push for equity and

mobility and brought changes throughout transportation. But first, maybe along those lines, Leslie and Alexa, there have been a lot of newsworthy

changes and updates and transportation just this week in mobility.

I know that Leslie, you were following week and

Leslie you were following Cadillac's introduction of the Lyric EV

Just what was that Thursday? Yeah, it just happened from our perspective just last night and it's Cadillac's first fully electric vehicle.

I think this is something that can give Cadillac something to go up against Tesla. And it has 300 miles of range. And this is quite a game

changer potentially for General Motors. And the automaker has actually committed to spending something like

20 billion dollars toward electric and autonomous vehicles over the next five years and this Cadillac Lyrrhic is supposed to be getting underway sometime

late in 2022. So it would be interesting to see how well General Motors does in this current environment and hopefully

by the time the vehicle comes out everything will have stabilized in the market.

So we'll see and just notably you guys might remember we had Denise Gray from LG Kim on the show sometime last year.

The lyric is going to be among the first vehicles powered by something called the Altium battery and that was developed in a joint venture

between General Motors and LG Kim. So that was one of the bigger stories to take place this week. Another thing that, you know, I mentioned

Tesla, Elon Musk did an extensive interview with our publisher, Jason Stein, another podcast called Daily Drive.

And if you have chance, please check that out.

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