93. The Race To Zero! Extreme Electrification with Nico Rosberg and Sara Price
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This is the second episode in our Race To Zero series!
All evidence points to the tipping point for electrification of road transport, and the end of the internal combustion engine. But will this happen fast enough?
One of the key pillars of the Race to Zero is to accelerate the adoption of Zero Emissions Vehicles. Today, transport accounts for about 16% of global emissions, but is a much higher share of total emissions in industrialized countries. For example in the United States, transport accounts for nearly 30% of emissions and globally is a major source of the pollution causing one in ten deaths.
If we’re going to succeed in this, it’s going to take everyone. So how do we bring in new people to take action on climate change? And how do we reach and inspire a new generation to never purchase an internal combustion engine? We ask Nico Rosberg and Sara Price whether the innovative impact of Extreme E and its exciting partnership with citizen action campaign, Count Us In, can bring the power of sport and the excitement of motor racing, to inspire the public to apply pressure that spurs industry and government policy to accelerate the race to zero carbon.
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Nico Rosberg
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Sara Price
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Nigel Topping High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrageant Optimism, I'm Tom Ravikkarnak. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm Cristiano Figueroos. |
| 0:27.0 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:28.7 | This week we have a very special episode in our race to zero series as we delve into |
| 0:34.0 | the higher adrenaline all electric world of extreme e off-road racing. |
| 0:39.1 | We talk to drivers Sarah Price and Nico Rosberg and high level climate action champion |
| 0:44.1 | Nigel Toppy. |
| 0:45.4 | Race to zero! |
| 0:49.3 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:59.7 | Okay, so at the end of last year we had the great opportunity to run a small series |
| 1:06.0 | of episodes on the future of transport. |
| 1:08.1 | And I thought that they were some of the most interesting episodes we'd done as Outrage |
| 1:12.0 | Optimism. |
| 1:13.0 | And today we're going to revisit that in a smaller way. |
| 1:15.5 | We're just going to talk about electrification of transportation, one of the hottest topics |
| 1:20.7 | in the world right now in the response to climate change. |
| 1:23.2 | And we're going to come at it in a very exciting way. |
| 1:25.4 | So a bit later in the episode we're going to delve specifically into extreme e, which |
| 1:30.0 | is this off-road electric racing of SUVs in remote locations. |
| 1:34.6 | And we'll delve into that. |
| 1:35.6 | We'll talk some of the drivers. |
| 1:37.0 | But first of all, let's just kick off, guys, because or girls has Paul very, very |
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