James Letz: The Future of Cars and the Auto Industry
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2009
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:30.3 | Welcome to Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton, the founder of Climate One. |
| 0:34.7 | Climate One is a leadership dialogue on energy, economy, and the environment |
| 0:39.3 | that discusses the transition to a prosperous and clean energy future. Our honored guest today |
| 0:44.7 | is Jim Lentz, president and chief operating officer of Toyota Motor Sales USA, and a member |
| 0:50.4 | of that company's board of directors. He has overall responsibility for sales, marketing, and distribution for Toyota, |
| 0:57.4 | Cyan, and Lexus products in the United States. |
| 1:00.2 | So please welcome Jim Lentz to the Commonwealth Club. |
| 1:07.6 | Thank you, sir. |
| 1:10.6 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:12.3 | Good evening, everybody. |
| 1:14.5 | Now, let's imagine for a moment that a very strange thing happens to each and every one of you tonight. |
| 1:21.2 | While you're fast asleep, all the cars on earth disappear. |
| 1:27.1 | Now, now, now. Unaware, you come out in the morning to get in your car |
| 1:31.1 | and it's gone. There's nothing there and there's no sign that it ever existed. And you're not |
| 1:36.8 | alone. Same things happen to all your neighbors. And you find out from the early morning news |
| 1:42.6 | that the same things happen to every car and truck |
| 1:45.8 | all over the world what would you do how would you get to work how would you get your kids to |
| 1:53.9 | school how would you go to the grocery store or get rushed to the hospital suddenly the |
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