I'm Ayesha Roscoe and this is a Sunday story where we go beyond the news to bring you one big story.
Last year we took a deep dive on electric vehicles to answer some of your big questions.
Why aren't more automakers offering smaller, cheaper electric vehicles?
Is it better from an environmental standpoint to buy an electric vehicle now or is it better to keep driving the car that you have?
What is the environmental impact?
of making all of these batteries for electric vehicles?
Those questions came in last March from up-first listeners Arvind Srinivasan,
Allie McCurl, and Anna Simon.
Over a year later, we here at The Sunday Story have one big question ourselves.
What's next for electric vehicles?
Kamilah Domenoski is joining us again to try to shed a little light on that.
Stay with us.
Angela,
there's a new administration here in Washington DC and we've already seen really dramatic shifts on electric vehicles.
The Biden administration was all in on EVs and the Trump administration has really basically set out to reverse all of those policies.
So how is that shifting things for this industry?
It is a very different vibe right now.
I mean, a few years ago,
you had a president who was setting a target of 50% of new car sales being electric by 2030.
And you had some companies falling over themselves to set targets