The Next Big Idea Daily: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to EVs

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Electric vehicles are here to stay. What does that mean for the automotive industry, the world, and you? 📕 Inevitable by Mike Colias 📱 Follow The Next Big Idea Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen 📩 Want to transform your day in just 10 minutes? Sign up for our Book of the Day newsletter, and you’ll get daily, bite‑sized insights from the best new nonfiction books — in audio or text — straight from the authors. Sign up today!

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0:00.0	Happy Monday. I'm Michael Kovnet, host of the Next Big Idea's sister podcast, The Next Big Idea Daily.
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0:49.3	So what's going on with electric vehicles? Full disclosure, I bought an EV last year and I've really enjoyed driving it around.
0:57.7	I've been assuming that the battery technology and charging infrastructure would get better and better over the next few years.
1:05.0	But America's commitment to EVs has looked pretty shaky lately.
1:08.9	And the claim that the future of the auto industry is
1:11.9	inevitably electric is not as firm as it once was, at least not in the land of Drill Baby Drill.
1:18.2	But elsewhere, the EV revolution is charging forward, especially in China, where adoption is
1:24.2	soaring. So to help us figure out where things stand,
1:29.6	we're joined today by Mike Collias,
1:31.8	author of the new book, Inevitable,
1:35.8	Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles.
1:38.8	Mike is an automotive reporter for the Wall Street Journal,
1:41.8	and he'll share his key insights right after this quick break.
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