Discussion keeps the world turning.
As the electric vehicle market continues to boom here in China, features like front trunks,
or frunks as they're affectionately called,
and zero gravity seats are redefining the car and the driving experience.
But this design revolution faces some serious scrutiny and it sparked a global debate about whether these innovations represent real progress,
or they're just introducing new safety risks that we didn't ask for.
with us today and for the show and with you, Sean, and you should up first.
As electric vehicles replace traditional gasoline cars,
engineers are rethinking everything about EV car design.
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers recently announced that for the first time ever,
China's new energy vehicles or NEV sales accounted for over half of all nationwide new car sales in October of this year,
proof that the market is booming.
With the market continuing its strong momentum,
we now see bull futuristic features like zero gravity seats yet some of these eye-catching features have drawn some criticism especially around safety so
as we speed into this new era of automotive engineering there are a couple of questions number one do we need these things and number two are they all safe we'll discuss all of those questions again and more so let's start with the frunk actually just
because it has the most fun name of all the things that we'll talk about today that's a trunk.
Precisely, and we hear about back trunk all the time,
and the front trunk is just a trunk at the front, apparently.
But this front idea is brought up, let's say, by the NEV market lately,
but it's not entirely a new idea or exclusive to the electric vehicles.