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Hi everyone, welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host.

We've talked a lot on this podcast about the infrastructure bill passed last fall and its importance for building out a national network of 500,000 chargers.

Now comes another piece of proposed federal legislation that could keep the EV momentum rolling along.

My guest today is Levi Tillamit, Vice President for Policy and International Outreach at

Ample. He is here to discuss the inflation reduction act, a proposed bill of potentially staggering importance for the auto industry in particular and efforts to thwart climate change writ large.

That West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin finally agreed work climate change writ large.

That West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin

finally agreed to a framework for this bill

surprised many people, but not Levi,

who's been paying attention to the way

industrial policy shapes technology and innovation for nearly two decades.

His 2015 book, The Great Race, the Global Quest for the Car of the Future,

is in my opinion required reading. In many ways it's pressure in terms of where America

finds itself today trying to catch up in the global competition to put electric vehicles on the

road.

Let's get right to it. Here's my conversation with Amples, Levi Tillaman.

Levi, welcome to the podcast. It's great to have you here today. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to

talk with you about what's happening in Washington.

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