The Politics of Electric Vehicles: Why Have EV’s Become a Partisan Issue?

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🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

CPF Co-Director Mike Murphy joins Albert Gore, Zero Emissions Transportation Association Executive Director, and David Schwietert, Alliance for Automotive Innovation Chief Policy Officer, for a conversation on the polarized politics of electric-powered vehicles and what polling around this big divide reveals about the future of transportation.

Featuring:

Albert Gore: Executive Director, Zero Emissions Transportation Association
David Schwietert: Chief Policy Officer, Alliance for Automotive Innovation
Mike Murphy: Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.4	All right, welcome everybody. This is an exciting one, the politics of electric vehicles.
0:35.6	It's a year of big politics.
0:37.7	Electric vehicles are a big thing.
0:39.9	So on behalf of the USC Center for the political future,
0:44.7	here at University of Southern California, I'm excited.
0:47.8	We're going to spend the next hour talking about something I care a lot about.
0:52.0	I'm an old Detroit kid, and I became an EV nut like two and a
0:56.5	half three years ago. I like to joke my lifetime average is five miles per gallon, but I had the
1:02.2	conversion, the physics are better. And I actually even started in bootstrapped evpolitics.org
1:08.3	and so I love talking about this stuff.
1:10.9	And to join me, I got the two best in the business.
1:14.3	First of all, I'm not sure if it's Zeta or Zeta,
1:17.6	but it's the coolest association name there is,
1:20.7	the Zero Emissions Transport Organization.
1:23.6	We have Albert Gore, who runs it here.
1:26.6	Welcome, Albert.
1:27.4	Great to have you. And then, oh, who runs it here. Welcome, Albert. Great to have you.
1:28.9	And then, oh, no, it's our pleasure.
1:33.1	And then I'm about to call it the Auto Alliance, and David, that's wrong.
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