Electric vehicles front and center

1 big thing

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Ford Motor Company is making a big bet on electric vehicles in Kentucky and Tennessee, through a new assembly plant and new battery factories. This comes as debate continues over President Biden's ambitious spending plan, which could transform the transportation sector when it comes to electric cars. Plus, why it took decades to convict R. Kelly. And, the debt ceiling, explained. Guests: Axios' Joann Muller and Alayna Treene; Jim DeRogatis, journalist and author of Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly; Koa Beck, journalist and author of White Feminism. Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Dan Bobkoff, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Alex Sugiura, and Michael Hanf. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	Good morning. Welcome to Axios today.
0:36.0	It's Tuesday, September 28th.
0:38.0	I'm Nyla Boudou.
0:39.0	Here's what you need to know today.
0:41.0	The decades it took to convict our Kelly.
0:44.0	Plus, as things heat up on Capitol Hill, the debt ceiling explained.
0:49.0	But first, putting electric vehicles front and center in the US
0:53.0	is today's one big thing.
0:59.0	Yesterday, we talked about how President Biden's ambitious spending plan
1:03.0	includes truly transforming the transportation sector when it comes to electric vehicles.
1:08.0	That's a direction private industry has been moving in for some time,
1:12.0	but what's it going to take to get there?
1:14.0	Ford Motor Company is today making a big bet on electric vehicles
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