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#EV: The quiz. Simon Constable, Occitanie

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#EV: The quiz. Simon Constable, Occitanie
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-vehicle-quiz-ea7247f3

1923

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0:00.0

Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

0:04.0

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

0:09.1

tropics.

0:10.1

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

0:13.4

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

0:18.0

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

0:23.0

Wish you were here.

0:24.0

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor with the Quizmaster, Simon Constable in the Wall Street

0:41.0

and the Wall Street Journal an electric vehicle quiz.

0:44.3

Now Simon, I flunked this so badly that it's embarrassing.

0:47.9

I had no idea.

0:49.5

You make this hard, but did anybody do well?

0:52.4

You've heard from people. Good heavens! Question the fact. this hard, but did anybody do well?

0:52.5

You've heard from people.

0:53.5

Good heavens.

0:54.2

Question, the first question should be easy.

0:56.8

It's a charged up EV will have zero emissions on the road,

1:00.3

but that's not the whole story.

1:02.0

What percentage of US electricity on the grid is produced from renewable resources?

1:07.0

Simon, I have no idea, did you?

1:11.0

I had some idea that it wasn't very high but I had to look up the figure myself.

1:17.0

In fact, with every one of these questions, I had to look it up to make sure it was right.

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