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Covering Electric Cars (4/23/12)

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Social Sciences, News Commentary, Earth Sciences, Science, News

4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2012

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Covering Electric Cars Chelsea Sexton, EV expert featured in Who Killed the Electric Car? Katie Fehrenbacher, Senior Writer, GigaOM Ucilia Wang, Contributor, Forbes What's driving electric car sales? Who's buying, and which manufacturers understand how to market to these buyers? Does VC capital and government funding help or hinder progress? Listen in as three experts debate the issues. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on April 23, 2012 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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local vet immediately. Visit petjavity.co.uk for full details.

0:29.6

How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy? Climate One

0:35.7

at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy,

0:39.6

economy, and the environment.

0:41.5

Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, climate one is the place

0:46.4

where big ideas get heard.

0:48.2

With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,

0:52.7

Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart

0:55.4

of the matter. It's our future. It's time to come together. Welcome to Climate One in

1:00.6

conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment. To understand any of them, you need to

1:05.5

understand them all. I'm Greg Dalton. Today, we're taking a spin in cars built to visit the gas station less often or not at all.

1:13.6

In March, Americans bought record numbers of gas electric hybrids and pure electric vehicles as fuel prices continued to climb.

1:22.6

52,000 cars are about 3.5% of total sales were gas sippers or gasoline-free. That's heartening for clean car enthusiasts, but alternative vehicles still have a long way to go before moving from the coastal cities to the American mainstream. In the next hour, we'll discuss the new generation of cars coming on the market, the companies making them, and the emerging

1:45.0

technologies they're betting on. And as always, we'll include questions from our live audience here

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