Last Call for Gasoline

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🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Is this the end of the road for the internal combustion engine? California isn’t the first major economy to ban gas-powered cars and trucks, and it won’t be the last. Fifteen countries, including some of the world’s top auto markets, have announced plans to phase out gas-powered engines as a step toward a 100% zero-emission vehicle future. It’s a bold move, but a critical one for climate. Transportation emits more greenhouse gas than any other sector of the US economy, and 15% of all global emissions come from road transport. What does this mean for drivers, for automakers, for infrastructure and for businesses that depend on a gas-powered economy? Can we get to a zero-emission future quickly enough? Visit climateone.org/watch-and-listen/podcasts for more information on today's episode. Guests: Part 1 Craig Scott, Group Manager, Toyota North America Katie Sloan, Clean Energy and Electrification Executive, Southern California Edison; Board Member, CalStart Emily Castor Warren, Senior Policy Advisor, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Guests: Part 2 Colin McKerracher, Head of Advanced Transport analysis at BloombergNEF Hui He, ICCT China Regional Director This program was recorded in November 2020 and is underwritten by the ClimateWorks Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.3	Is this the end of the road for the internal combustion engine?
0:33.5	Climate One conversations feature all aspects of the climate emergency, the individual and the systemic, the exciting and the scary.
0:41.0	I'm Greg Dalton.
0:45.8	Transportation is America's biggest source of carbon pollution, and essentially anywhere you live, a car that runs on electricity is cleaner than one that runs on gasoline or diesel.
0:55.4	In today's conversation, we plug into the accelerating transition to EVs and what it means for
1:00.6	car owners, car makers, our climate, and our communities. We also explore what policies the Biden
1:06.6	administration can put forward to support the switch. Climate 1's Andrew Stelzer gets us going.
1:13.7	After taxpayers bailed out General Motors and Chrysler during the Great Recession,
1:18.8	President Obama had a lot of leverage over the U.S. auto industry.
1:22.8	The result was increasing fuel efficiency standards for the first time in decades.
1:27.4	This restructuring, as painful as it will be in the short term, was increasing fuel efficiency standards for the first time in decades.
1:27.5	This restructuring, as painful as it will be in the short term, will mark not an end,
1:33.4	but a new beginning for a great American industry.
1:37.2	An auto industry that is once more out-competing the world, a 21st century auto industry
1:42.9	that is creating new jobs, unleashing new prosperity,
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