Brett Smith, Joe Ben Bevirt.
“This got going in the summer of 2008 when gasoline was 5 dollars a gallons in California. The world expected gasoline prices to go up and up and up and technology to solve it. Two of those things didn’t happen.”
Brett Smith, programme director for sustainability at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, explains why he thinks the U.S. government is far from reaching its EV ambition of having 1 million electric vehicles on the road already this year.
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“This got going in the summer of 2008 when gasoline was 5 dollars a gallons in California. The world expected gasoline prices to go up and up and up and technology to solve it. Two of those things didn’t happen.”
Joe Ben Bevirt, founder of Joby Aviation, wants flying to become as common as taking the train or the bus. Something he says will become a reality when airplanes are powered by electric motors.
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“I would like to propose to you that electric-propulsion will change aviation far more radically than anything we’ve seen in aviation before.”
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