Slate Money: EVs Need a Charge-Up

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week: Americans are less revved up about EVs. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss if Elon Musk’s mischief has played a role in slowing sales. Also: the crisis in the wine industry, and how a combination investigative publication/hedge fund wants to blow the lid off corporations — while shorting their stock. In the Plus segment: the proxy battle for the future of Disney. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our regular show every week. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:17.0	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and
0:22.5	places like that. Hello. And very excitingly, we are here with Lizzie O'Leary of a great
0:31.1	podcast on Slate called What Next TBD? TBD stands for business to tech and science. No, it stands for
0:36.9	to be determined. It's a placeholder. No, it stands for to be determined.
0:37.7	It's a placeholder name.
0:38.9	As in the future will be determined.
0:40.4	You have literally had a placeholder name for your podcast since it launched you.
0:43.8	It's about me.
0:44.0	It's about the future.
0:45.0	It's about the future.
0:46.2	Okay, listen to it.
0:47.4	And the main thing is that she's awesome, brilliant, fantastic, and wonderful. We are going to have you on the show to talk about electric vehicles and about Hunterbrook and about wine and in the Slate Plus about Disney.
1:03.3	It's all coming up on Slate Money. My name is Caden Sinclair.
1:16.6	Some people call us American royalty.
1:18.6	We were liars.
1:20.6	A new series on Prime Video.
1:22.6	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
1:24.6	Based on the best-selling novel. Something terrible happened last summer,
1:30.3	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
1:33.3	No one in my family will tell me.
1:35.3	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
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