No Going Back: EVs and Clean Tech Tipping Points with Albert Cheung
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style. |
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| 0:28.8 | to learn more. Hi, it's Greg Dalton. I'd like to hear your comments on the show, topics we should |
| 0:34.5 | cover, and guest suggestions. You can reach me at Greg at |
| 0:37.7 | Climate1.org. This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. To avoid the worst effects of a climate |
| 0:44.6 | catastrophe, we need to get off fossil fuels fast. But what does it take for clean technologies |
| 0:50.4 | to reach mass market adoption? I would say that renewables have passed the tipping point. |
| 0:56.4 | I think they are the dominant force in the power system today. If you look at all of the power |
| 1:01.3 | capacity that's added each year, about two-thirds of it is wind or solar. About 80% of it is |
| 1:07.3 | as clean as renewables. That's good news for the power sector, but what can be done to help spur other clean solutions, |
| 1:14.6 | like electric vehicles? |
| 1:15.6 | I think it's all about creating that policy environment where there's confidence for the automakers to invest. |
| 1:20.6 | We saw Ford come forward with its $50 billion EV plan, which really just gives me a lot of confidence |
| 1:26.6 | that we are going to see |
| 1:28.3 | that mass market adoption in the U.S. in the next few years. |
| 1:31.2 | No going back. Evs and clean tech tipping points up next on Climate One. |
| 1:38.8 | In the tech world, there's a common belief that once a new device hits 5% market penetration, |
| 1:45.9 | it rapidly goes from a niche to mass adoption. Think of smartphones, social media, or even the personal computer. Could the same |
| 1:52.0 | be true of the green tech we need to prevent the most dire climate catastrophe? According to Bloomberg, |
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