I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday story where we go beyond the news to bring you one big story.

Last year, we took a deep dive on electric vehicles to answer some of your big questions.

Why are more automakers offering smaller, cheaper electric vehicles?

Is it better from an environmental standpoint to buy an electric vehicle

now, or is it better to keep driving the car that you have? What is the environmental impact

of making all of these batteries for electric vehicles? Those questions came in last March from

up first listeners are Vin Shri Mvassin, Ali McCurl, and Anna Simon.

Over a year later, we here at The Sunday Story have one big question ourselves.

What's next for electric vehicles?

Camila Dominovsky is joining us again to try to shed a little light on that. Stay with us.

Camila, there's a new administration here in Washington, D.C., and we've already seen really

dramatic shifts on electric vehicles. The Biden administration was all in

on EVs. And the Trump administration has really basically set out to reverse all of those policies.

So how is that shifting things for this industry? It is a very different vibe right now. I mean, a few years ago, you had a

president who was setting a target of 50% of new car sales being electric by 2030. And you had

some companies falling over themselves to set targets for going entirely 100% electric.

Here's a very specific example.

In 2022, Hyundai announced that they were opening this new giant plant in Georgia that was

only going to make electric vehicles.

Here's Jose Munoz, an executive at Hyundai, speaking at the groundbreaking for this factory less than three years ago.

We heard the clarion call of this administration to hasten the adoption of new electric vehicles and reduce carbon emissions.

This administration being, of course, the Biden White House, which had all of these incentives and requirements, the proverbial

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