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Who’s Trying to Re-Kill the Electric Car?

Energy Gang

Wood Mackenzie

Tech News, Environment, Sustainability, Innovation, Renewable Energy, Technology, Alternative Energy, Energy, News, Cleantech, Wind Energy, Business, Climate Change, Solar Energy

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This week: it’s the oil industry versus the world. 

We’re examining two legal battles for oil majors playing out in states. One involves electric cars and one involves responsibility for climate change.

We’ll start first with a story from POLITICO’s Gavin Bade. Advocacy groups backed by oil companies are increasingly lobbying against utilities that are trying to support electric vehicles. Are we seeing a coming political clash between the oil industry and utility industry?

We’re joined by Gavin, who’s been tracking these emerging challenges.

Then, we are devoting our second half of the show to the legal challenges against fossil fuel companies. 

Exxon is on trial in New York and numerous other states and cities are bringing suit against oil majors. It’s got everyone paying attention to this very complicated yet riveting issue: as the science and legal arguments evolve, will big fossil fuel companies be held accountable for a warming planet?

Support for this podcast is brought to you by Sungrow. With the world’s most powerful 250-kilowatt, 1,500-volt string inverter, Sungrow is providing disruptive technology for utility-scale projects.

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We have a survey for listeners of the energy gang and the interchange. I wanted to mention it before we start. It is right there in the show notes. It'll take you just a few minutes. It's anonymous unless of course you want some pieces of swag that we are putting together, maybe a mug, a pair

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of socks, and you'll have to give your email address for those.

0:18.0

But otherwise, we just want to know where you are in the industry.

0:21.9

Jigger, what profession do you think is most common among our listeners?

0:25.2

Analysts.

0:26.2

Now it's a split between rock splitters and snake milkers.

0:30.6

Nice.

0:31.6

No, we have a ton of people and win. Nice. Maybe they're not surprises, but they're outside of the traditional energy realm.

0:44.0

People in information technology, a lot of folks in venture capital, a lot of folks in politics,

0:49.0

and specifically in fuel cells and building energy efficiency.

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So we want to hear about where you stand in the industry

0:57.8

or even if you're outside the industry.

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It'll help us make more relevant content

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and to be totally transparent. It helps us find the

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right advertisers for this show as well. So pick up your phone or whatever device you're listening

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to and fill out the survey. Thank you so much. A thanks also goes to our sponsor Sun Grow. Sun Grow is the

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