The Electric Car Race! Vroom, Vroom!

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Electric cars can help reduce greenhouse gases and companies are taking note — racing to become the next Tesla. Today on the show, guest host Dan Charles talks with business reporter Camila Domonoske about how serious the country is about this big switch from gas to electric cars. Plus, what could get drivers to ditch the gas guzzlers?

For more of Camila's reporting on electric cars, check out "The age of gas cars could be ending" and "2 little-known automotive startups are leading the race to become the next Tesla"

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:04.4	Hello, short waivers.
0:06.4	It's Dan Charles here with NPR's car and energy reporter, Camila Domenoski.
0:10.8	Hi, Dan.
0:11.8	Camila, you're here to talk about electric cars and I have a true confession.
0:16.0	I bought one this year.
0:17.2	Hey, what'd you get?
0:18.6	A zippy little Chevy Bolt.
0:21.8	And I bought it really for climate reasons because if people shift from burning gas in their
0:27.6	cars to running on electricity, it means fewer greenhouse gases going into the air, warming
0:32.8	the climate.
0:33.8	Right, exactly.
0:34.8	And I have to ask, what do you think of the Bolt?
0:36.5	I love it.
0:37.5	I love driving by gas stations.
0:39.4	I hear that.
0:40.4	I do not have to go in there.
0:41.8	I do not have to put gas in this car and have the stuff coming out of the exhaust.
0:48.3	The conversation around electric cars has shifted in recent years.
0:51.0	It seems like more people are thinking that they are a real option.
0:54.4	Yeah, I mean, they're still a very small percentage of the market, but I'm hearing more and
0:59.2	more people who drive a gas powered car today who completely assume that they'll buy an
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