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Shift: A podcast about mobility

Rewiring America's Ari Matusiak on Inflation Reduction Act and future of electrification

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

Business

4.831 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The former Obama White House official says his company's goal to "electrify everything" isn't just optimistic, it's also a practical and realistic vision for the future. And he says President Joe Biden's signing of the Inflation Reduction Act is a game-changer that will propel America toward that new reality.

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0:00.0

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0:27.0

Hello and welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility.

0:32.0

I'm Automotive News Coord producer Jake Nier sitting in for

0:36.0

Pete Bigelow this week. President Joe Biden's signature is on the inflation reduction act. The new law has the entire

0:45.2

auto industry and those of us who cover it digging through pages and pages of

0:50.1

policy trying to figure out exactly what this all means for people who help build and sell

0:56.4

cars and trucks.

0:58.3

My guest this week has also been piecing it altogether and says this is a game changer for efforts to get more

1:05.5

EVs on the road and to address climate change. That's huge for him and his company.

1:11.2

Ari Matusiac is a former Obama White House staffer and is the co-founder

1:16.7

and CEO of the nonprofit Rewiring America, which has a stated mission to launch a movement that electrifies everything.

1:27.0

We spoke right after the US Senate approved the Inflation Reduction Act.

1:31.0

Here's our conversation.

1:33.0

Ari Matusiac, welcome to shift.

1:36.0

Thank you, Jake. It's great to be here.

1:38.0

It's great to have you. I've been looking forward to talking to you for quite a while now.

1:42.0

First of all, tell us a little bit

1:44.3

about rewiring America. This is work you've been doing for a while now, you know, which

1:48.6

really deals with America's grid, getting it ready for increased electrification.

1:52.7

Obviously something that really impacts the auto industry.

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