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How to Save a Planet

Are Electric Cars Really Better for the Climate?

How to Save a Planet

Gimlet

Science, News, Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We love listener mail! You've sent us some amazing notes. Some made us laugh, some made us cry, and some made us say – hey, that’s a great question! We should answer it. So this week, we dig into one of your questions, and in the process, resolve an argument for a couple who can’t decide what kind of car is better for the climate. (This episode first aired on November 12, 2020.) Guests: Ami Bogin, Harry Bishop and Nikolas Hill Take Action If you’re in the market for a new car...test drive an EV! And then let us know how it went! Send us a voice memo! We love hearing from listeners! Have you taken one of the actions we’ve recommended? Have some burning climate questions that just need to be answered? An episode idea you can’t wait to hear? Just have some climate feelings?! Record a short voice memo on your phone and send it through our Listener Mail Form. We might use it in a future episode! Learn More Interested in how electric vehicles stack up? This calculator from the Union of Concerned Scientists lets you compare emissions from EVs with internal combustion engine vehicles in different regions across the U.S. Transport & Environment has a similar calculator for folks in the European Union If you want to check out the report discussed in this episode, comparing the environmental impacts of EVs and other vehicles, you can find it here! Check out our Calls to Action archive for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail Form. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram. This episode of How to Save a Planet was produced by Rachel Waldholz. The rest of our reporting and producing team includes Kendra Pierre-Louis and Anna Ladd. Our intern is Ayo Oti. Our senior producer is Lauren Silverman. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Sound design and mixing by Emma Munger and Peter Leonard with original music from Emma Munger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to How to Save a Planet, I'm Dr. Iyana Elizabeth Johnson.

0:07.8

And I'm Alex Bloomberg, and this is the show where we talk about what we need to do to

0:11.2

address climate change and how to make those things happen.

0:17.8

All right, I want to show you something.

0:27.6

I want to see it.

0:28.6

You ready?

0:29.6

It's time to take a lectric and turn it into lightning.

0:41.6

Whoa, the F-150 Lightning!

0:49.3

Built Ford Proud.

0:50.3

You know what the lightning stands for?

0:52.5

The fact that it's electric?

0:54.1

Exactly.

0:55.1

It's an all-electric F-150.

0:57.2

Ford's best-selling, most iconic pickup truck.

1:00.2

This is actually something I've been waiting for.

1:02.0

A really?

1:03.0

Yeah.

1:04.0

Because a bunch of my climate nerd friends were like, when there's an F-150 electric

1:10.4

without making it weird looking and like a whole separate new thing, then we'll know

1:15.2

that the change has started.

1:17.0

That electric vehicles are really going mainstream.

1:20.8

And there's some evidence for that because just in the last six months, some of the world's

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