Baby, You Can Drive My Electric Car

KQED's Forum

KQED

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

By 2035, California plans to phase out sales of new gas-powered cars. The new regulations announced last week by the California Air Resource Board formalize Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2020 executive order which proposed banning the sale of cars that run on fossil fuels. Environmentalists have hailed this move as a much-needed step to address climate change. We’ll talk about what it means for the world’s fifth largest economy and the state that invented car culture to go electric, and we’ll hear from you: are you ready to get an electric car or will you be hanging on to your gas-powered car as long as you can? Guests: Russ Mitchell, Automotive Editor, Los Angeles Times. He is based in Berkeley and covers the automotive industry. Ethan Elkind, director of the Climate Program at the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, UC Berkeley School of Law; host of the podcast, Climate Break Margo Oge, Former director, US EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality; Author of "Driving the Future: Combating Climate Change with Cleaner, Smarter Cars" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Support for KQIWID podcasts comes from Rancho LaPuerta, a wellness resort 45 minutes from San Diego.
0:07.2	Summer packages of three, four, or seven nights include hiking, mindfulness, and culinary adventures with farm-fresh ingredients.
0:15.0	Rancho LePuerta.com.
0:16.9	Support for Forum comes from Broadway S.F. presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a true story.
0:24.4	From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and Lucille Frank,
0:30.8	a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia.
0:34.8	When Leo is accused of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable
0:40.2	test of faith, humanity, justice, and devotion. The riveting and gloriously hopeful parade
0:47.2	plays the Orpheum Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th. Tickets on sale now
0:54.0	at Broadwaysf.com.
0:58.2	From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.
1:18.6	I'm Mina Kim.
1:19.6	California will phase out sales of new gas-powered cars by 2035, calling it a much-needed
1:25.6	step to address climate change. Will it work? What will it take
1:29.9	to make the transition? And how will a mass need to charge up instead of fuel up change life
1:35.9	in the Golden State? We'll talk about what the new rule means for drivers, the auto industry,
1:40.5	gas stations. And hear from you, are you ready for a future without the option of buying a gas-powered car?
1:47.0	Join us.
1:49.0	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. If you buy a new car in a little over a decade from now, it'll have to be an electric or hydrogen-powered one. California has banned the sale of all new gas-powered cars by 2035. And the new rule has been hailed as a big moment
2:21.1	for the world, a bold effort to address climate change. So let's get into the details. Here
2:27.9	first to help us do that is Russ Mitchell, automotive reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Russ,
2:33.4	thanks so much for being with us.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KQED, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KQED and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.