Peter Valdes-Dapena is a senior writer for CNN Business where he covers automobiles, the industry that produces them and the changing ways in which people buy, own and use them.

Valdes-Dapena has written about the industry for CNN since 2001 and, in that time, covered the American auto industry's collapse during the 2008 financial crisis and its resurgence. Now he's covering the industry's shift toward new technology such as electric propulsion, autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing services.