What Next TBD: Can Hybrid Cars Save Us?

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Without infrastructure to support all-electric vehicles, consumers have increasingly embraced the hybrid. The lower emissions are good—but are they slowing down our transition into an electric future? Guest: Patrick George, editor-in-chief of InsideEVs.com, contributor to The Atlantic and The Verge. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:34.9	So Patrick, tell us who are you and what do you do?
0:38.3	My name is Patrick George. I'm the editor-in-chief of InsideEVs.com, and I'm a contributor to The Atlantic and The Verge and a few other publications.
0:47.3	Patrick is a car guy. He's covered the auto industry for years, and these days he's focused on
0:56.8	electric vehicles. So fair to say he's now an EV guy. Thanks to his job, Patrick does a lot of
1:04.3	test driving. Last week, he tested out a fancy Mercedes EV. It was an SUV with a six-figure price tag. He lent it out to
1:13.6	his wife. She didn't love it. She borrowed it for a bit to go run some errands, and I asked her,
1:18.6	was like, just bring it back with a full charge because we had to drive back to New York City that night,
1:22.9	and I just had the worst time getting the car to connect to any of the public chargers that are near us in upstate New York and just kind of calls me screaming, jumping up and down.
1:33.2	She's like, the software won't work and it will connect to the car.
1:36.3	And she's like, did you know it was like this?
1:38.1	And I said, yes.
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