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Posted on November 20, 2008
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While politicians and economists argue over what should be done to shore up the American auto industry, we’ll take a look at progress towards a plug-in cars. Could the current financial crisis help provide the jolt needed to get electric cars and advanced hybrids into widespread production?
Some industry observers have suggested that energy efficiency conditions be set on any government-financed aid to the automobile industry. Can Detroit automakers do it themselves? Or will smaller, more flexible companies have to innovate and show the bigger companies the way? In this hour, we’ll talk about the technology and politics involved with getting to electric and plug-in hybrid cars. Teachers, find more information about using Science Friday as a classroom resource in the Kids’ Connection.
Guests
Sherry Boschert
Vice-president, Plug In America
Author, Plug-In Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge America
San Francisco, California
Daniel Sperling
Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy
Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies
Member of the California Air Resources Board, Automotive seat
University of California, Davis
Davis, California
JP Straubel
Chief Technical Officer
Tesla Motors, Inc.
San Carlos, California
Tony Markel
Senior Engineer
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, Colorado
The NPR Science Friday Plug-In Cars Website is located here.
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I would be very wary of giving anymore bailouts to Detroit, regardless of green preconditions attached. I would prefer to see all the incentives directed towards the consumer—-the hard-pressed tax-payers who are now bearing the brunt of an economic collapse they did not create. Let's help 'Joe six-pack' drive green, rather than giving more corporate welfare to Big Auto. All industries are of their time—when they are in tune with their times, they succeed and when they fall out of step, they become obsolete. There is a logic and a natural justice to this. Let the Big 3 get their act together if they want to survive in a new green economy. As Obama said, "the world has changed, and we have to change with it". And so does Big Auto!