Do hybrid vehicles help or hurt the environment?
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🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:28.4 | This week, we are delving into a big debate on the best model for electric cars. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome back to the views room. I hope like me you've had a restful break and thank you for |
| 0:41.7 | returning to the podcast from Reuters breaking views where columnists from around the world talk about |
| 0:46.9 | the big stories of the week. I'm your host Amy Donnellin coming to you from London. Electric vehicles |
| 0:52.8 | are a key part of a plan to clean up the environment. |
| 0:56.1 | But for anyone who's attempted to buy one of these motors, cost is a big factor. |
| 1:00.5 | In an inflationary environment, pure electric may be prohibitive for many, |
| 1:05.1 | which explains why carmakers like Toyota are sticking with hybrid vehicles. |
| 1:09.3 | But will this halfway house delay countries' attempts |
| 1:12.3 | to get to a net zero faster, Pete Sweeney and Anthony Curry tune in from Hong Kong and Melbourne |
| 1:17.8 | respectively to debate the merits of both models. Thanks, Amy. Hello, I'm Katrina Hamlin here in Hong Kong. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm with Pete Sweeney, who's also in Hong Kong, and Anthony |
| 1:28.1 | Curry down in Melbourne. And we have been thinking a lot about electric cars, not just pure |
| 1:34.7 | battery power cars, but also hybrids, which are powered by both batteries and a traditional |
| 1:40.2 | internal combustion engine. We've been debating the relative merits of these different technologies, |
| 1:45.3 | and we're not the only ones. Investors in Toyota had been asking the company whether they should |
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