VW Emissions Scandal Gives Electric Cars a Boost
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Cheating on tests for diesel engine emissions will cost Volkswagen billions of dollars. It's also helping to boost the development for alternatives to the internal combustion engine… and electric cars look like the wave of the future.
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| 0:00.0 | Join left-right and center host Bob Shear for his new podcast, Shear Intelligence. The twice-monthly |
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| 0:32.8 | this is To the Point. There's likely to be an electric car in your future. |
| 0:41.9 | Hello again, I'm Armin Almi, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International, |
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| 0:48.3 | It's been 100 years since electric cars ruled the roads of industrial countries |
| 0:52.1 | until they were replaced by the internal combustion engine. |
| 0:55.3 | Now, in Europe, China, and especially the U.S., electric cars are seen as the wave of the future. |
| 1:00.7 | It won't be long before they're talking to one another. |
| 1:03.4 | We'll hear how they're getting a boost from the scandalous cheating by Volkswagen and others |
| 1:07.4 | to deceive the public about so-called clean diesel. |
| 1:10.4 | Carmakers, government regulators, and savvy investors predict the demand for electric cars is about to go through the roof. |
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