Future of Travel: Is It Boom or Bust Time for EVs?

Pivot

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Pivot's special series on the future of travel rolls on — next stop, electric vehicles. Is the slowdown in EV sales a temporary blip, or part of a larger trend? When will individuals get a piece of charging station revenues? And what will be the ultimate gamechanger to get people to buy these cars? Kara and Scott discuss it all with Beia Spiller, an energy economist, and the Transportation Program Director for Resources for the Future. Follow Beia at @starbeia Follow us on Instagram and Threads at @pivotpodcastofficial. Follow us on TikTok at @pivotpodcast. Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Virgin Atlantic.
0:03.7	Travel can be stressful.
0:05.1	I don't think that's a controversial take.
0:07.1	We're always so focused on the destination that the journey just feels like a means to an end.
0:11.7	Well, what if it wasn't? What if your travel
0:14.2	experience was just as memorable as the destination itself? Whether you're
0:17.9	traveling for business or leisure, Virgin Atlantic wants to make your
0:21.2	journey stand out. We recently flew with Virgin Atlantic
0:24.7	and their special extra touches made our trip one to remember for the best of reasons. We'll
0:30.0	tell you all about it later in the show. Check out Virgin Atlantic.com for your next trip
0:34.7	and see the world differently.
0:37.1	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York magazine in the Vox Media
0:45.6	Podcast Network I'm Kara Swisher and I'm Scott Galloway and you're listening
0:49.2	to our special three-part series on the future of travel where we look at the business and
0:53.6	tech trends affecting how we make our way through the world. Today we're talking
0:57.4	about automobiles and the EV industry which we talk a lot about on pivot.
1:01.5	Here to chat with us about the future of EVs is
1:03.7	Bea Spiller. Bea is an energy economist and the Transportation Program
1:08.2	Director for the Resources for the Future. Welcome, Bea. Thanks so much for having me.
1:14.0	So let's talk about the state of the EV industry.
1:16.0	Growth rates for sales have slowed, though prices have come down.
1:19.0	Ford has scaled back EV expansion plans and Tesla laid off 10% of its global
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