Automakers adjust as EV demand fluctuates
The World
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Automakers like Volvo and Volkswagen are making big changes to their business models as demand fluctuates for electric vehicles. Also, the athletics community across East Africa mourns the death of Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who was reportedly killed by her partner. And, a discussion about euthanasia and how and when it’s used around the world. Plus, a collection of 1,984 copies of George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984" hopes to find a permanent home on the Scottish island where Orwell lived.
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| 0:00.0 | It's feeling like 2016 all over again. The Justice Department says Russia has been shelling |
| 0:10.6 | out millions to far-right influencers here in the US. |
| 0:14.7 | They just want to throw sand in the gears of American democracy whenever they can. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:20.3 | And I'm Marco Werman. |
| 0:21.6 | Automakers are reassessing their plans for building more electric vehicles. |
| 0:25.0 | They see waning demand for EVs, but the thing is there is waning demand for cars and a lot of fossil cars. |
| 0:34.0 | And a movie lifts up the global debate around euthanasia, |
| 0:38.2 | a library with nearly 2,000 copies of the same book. |
| 0:42.3 | Plus, we meet a rapper from Portugal |
| 0:44.0 | who's trying to confront toxic masculinity. |
| 0:47.0 | To have a real change, we need to change. |
| 0:49.0 | We mean men. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, we men need to change. |
| 0:52.0 | Those stories are more today on the world. |
| 0:58.0 | This is the world. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Marco Werman. |
| 1:00.0 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:01.0 | Thank you for being here with us today. |
| 1:04.0 | The Biden administration is taking new steps against what it describes as a Russian |
| 1:08.0 | disinformation campaign targeting the 2024 U.S. presidential election. On Wednesday the Department of Justice announced the the alleged involvement other reports point to Russia's foreign intelligence agency, |
| 1:24.8 | the SVR, alleging that its agents are on a mission |
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