The car is a central feature of American culture more so than in other countries. And I don't know where it's going to go in the future. What shape or what form it will take, but its role as how you get from one place to another,. It's going to expand way beyond that.
As California watches the impact of rising temperatures devastate its environment with brutal heat waves and raging fires, the state is taking increasingly far-reaching steps to combat climate change.
One of those measures — banning the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035 — could prove a turning point for the transition to electric vehicles.
Guest: Neal E. Boudette, an automotive correspondent for The New York Times.
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