Only four to five percent of the vehicles that are being produced or sold in the United States are electric. The main challenge is that we have a technology that works, but just because it works doesn't mean that it's super easy to manufacture hundreds of thousands and millions of these vehicles. This is not a clean process in any way. There are real trade-offs that need to be considered.
The bombastic founder of an electric truck startup (no, not Elon) has been convicted for his role in his company’s “intricate fraud.” But even without the crimes, getting EVs to market has proven a lot harder than everyone thought.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Miles Bryan and Haleema Shah, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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