The Sunday Story: Answering Your Questions About Electric Vehicles

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🗓️ 24 March 2024

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Summary

This week the EPA released new rules for vehicle emissions, which will push the auto industry to speed up the transition to electric vehicles. It's expected that electric vehicles will make up over 50% of new cars by 2032. For now EVs account for less than 10% of vehicle sales and drivers still have lots of questions about them and how they really affect the environment.

We asked The Sunday Story listeners to share their questions about EVs and the response was overwhelming. So to answer those many questions, host Ayesha Rascoe turns to NPR's business desk correspondent, Camila Domonoske, who covers cars and energy.

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0:00.0	I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is a Sunday story. A lot of people are thinking about electric vehicles right now, considering them, open to them in theory, but...
0:11.0	I look at them, but I'm not going to buy them. Why not? Just because of
0:16.7	the hassle with charging and the second thing is cost. Looking but not buying.
0:23.6	Lots of people are in this situation
0:25.6	and it marks a potential turning point.
0:28.0	Because whether the EV curious take the plunge,
0:31.3	it really matters. It matters to the auto industry which is spending billions
0:35.6	to build more electric vehicles but also to the world because a rapid pivot to
0:40.8	EVs is one key part of plans to fight climate change. pivot to
0:45.0	e-v's is one key part of plans to fight climate change. Today we're breaking from our usual format
0:48.0	to take a closer look at electric vehicles
0:51.0	and not from the point of view of a specific car or the
0:54.3	Biden administration or the latest sales data but from the perspective of
0:59.2	ordinary drivers. We ask the Sunday story listeners to send in their questions about electric vehicles and the response was overwhelming.
1:08.0	After the break, we'll dig into those listener questions and get some experts to weigh in.
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