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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.

My guest today on the podcast is John Motlow, Chief Strategy Officer at Hydrogen Technology Start-Up Zero Emission Industries.

We're going to discuss the reasons behind Hydrogen's momentum, its complementary role to Battery

Electric, and ZEI's work, which involves upfitting vehicles with

hydrogen fuel cell systems, and creating a portable device that addresses the big hydrogen

infrastructure challenge and transportation.

But first I've got a quick look at this week's headlines in the mobility realm.

Waymo announced that it's closed a 55.6 billion funding round this month.

That figure does include the $5 billion multi-year investment that its parent company

alphabet disclosed earlier the summer,

and it includes about 600 million more

from the likes of Fidelity, T-Roe Price, Tiger Global,

and Andresen Horowitz.

Weimo now has Roa taxis deployed in Phoenix and San Francisco that are open to the public,

with plans in the near future for opening service in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, with Atlanta beyond that, clearly a lot of momentum.

Elsewhere on autonomy this week, a British startup wave has opened an office in Sunnyvale, California.

The company expects to start testing and developing its highway capabilities

and showcasing its learning models ability to fuse together the American and British

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