The complicated economics of electric vehicles

Make Me Smart

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

After a little summer hiatus, we’re back and digging into the Inflation Reduction Act — specifically the part that would offer thousands of dollars in tax credits to electric car buyers. But will the incentives actually make EVs more affordable and lead to mass adoption that leads to curbing climate-warming emissions? Kimberly and guest host Meghan McCarty Carino get into it. Plus, a major investigation into the real origins of the government’s family separation policy. Then, it’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s a slice of salami?

Here’s everything we talked about today:

What the proposed climate bill means for EV buyers from Axios
“Electric Cars Are Too Costly for Many, Even With Aid in Climate Bill” from The New York Times
“The climate bill could short-circuit EV tax credits, making qualifying for them nearly impossible” from The Conversation
The secret history of family separation from The Atlantic
“Earth broke the record for the shortest day since atomic clocks were invented” from CNN
“James Webb Spots the Farthest Galaxy Humans Have Ever Seen, Near the Dawn of Time” from Vice

Let us know what’s on your mind. Our email is [email protected]. You can also leave a voice message at 508-U-B-SMART.

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0:00.0	Let's do it.
0:01.5	All right, let's do it.
0:09.3	Hello, everyone.
0:10.3	I am Kimberly Adams.
0:11.9	Welcome back to make me smart where we make today make sense.
0:15.7	And we are back after our little break.
0:19.2	Yep, I'm Megan McCarty, Carino.
0:20.8	I'm here for Chi Rizdal today.
0:22.5	Thank you so much for joining us this Monday, the first Monday after a little
0:25.9	hiatus last week.
0:26.9	We're going to, you know, do the news, share a couple, make me smiles, the
0:31.2	use.
0:32.1	So let's start with the news mix.
0:35.0	Yeah, but before we get into that, I just want to say, thank you so much to
0:39.2	everybody who sent the notes of condolences about my uncle, like, y'all are
0:43.9	amazing.
0:44.6	And I shared a lot of those with my uncle.
0:47.0	He got a ton himself.
0:48.6	And so just want to say, thank you, everyone for being so kind and, and
0:53.0	generous and thoughtful.
0:54.3	And I know it really lifted him up.
0:55.9	So that was really sweet of everybody.
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