Is the US Falling Behind in the Race to Electric Vehicles?
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
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NPR's Scott Detrow digs into the state of EVs in the United States with Biden administration Infrastructure Czar Mitch Landrieu and Keith Barry senior writer with Consumer Reports.
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| 0:00.0 | The Ford F-150 Lightning Pickup had an unconventional test driver back in 2021. |
| 0:11.8 | It was a day before the electric vehicle's official release and |
| 0:15.7 | to keep details under wraps until then the big pickup truck was actually cloaked |
| 0:19.4 | in camouflage. A man wearing aviator sunglasses climbed behind the wheel and took off. |
| 0:25.0 | Mr President, this sucker is quick. How did this drive? |
| 0:28.0 | President Biden liked the ride. |
| 0:30.0 | Now I don't anybody has a stopwatch, but I think if we're going and... the ride. |
| 0:41.0 | Early on the stopwatch, but I think if we're going 0 to 60 in about 4.3. |
| 0:40.9 | Early on in his presidency, Biden was making it clear just how much he was betting on electric vehicles. Our best test driver ever. |
| 0:55.0 | A longtime car guy. |
| 0:58.0 | Remember those fake onion articles about Biden working on old hot rods back when he was vice president while he had set big |
| 1:04.2 | goals of boosting American manufacturing and slashing the country's greenhouse |
| 1:08.8 | gas footprint shifting the country to electric vehicles would do both. |
| 1:13.7 | So to show just how serious he was about all of it, |
| 1:16.3 | Biden took the F-150 for a spin himself. |
| 1:19.4 | After touring Ford's rogue electric vehicle center in Dearborn, Michigan. |
| 1:23.2 | My name is Joe Biden and I'm a car guy. |
| 1:26.2 | Delivering remarks, Biden said that electric was the future of the auto industry, |
| 1:30.8 | but there was no turning back. |
| 1:32.1 | The real question is whether we'll lead or will fall behind in the race of the future. |
| 1:37.0 | His administration set the ambitious goal of having half of all new vehicle sales be electric by 2030. |
| 1:44.0 | And Biden accelerated that goal earlier this year |
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