Electric Cars Won’t Save Us [Part 2]

How I'm I supposed to live my life with a car that only goes 300 miles per charge when I might need to go to the dry cleaner 4 miles from my house?

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Additional Media

• The horror of alligator attack on boy at Disney World resort is detailed in new reports - Los Angeles Times

• America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars - The Atlantic

• Robinson Meyer, Elon Musk Is Putting the EV Transition in Peril

• Ed Zitron, Enron Musk Ft. Ed Niedermeyer

• VW Beetle converted to electric in a day

• How The Cheapest Electric Car In The World Held Up After 1 Year

• Unboxing The World's Cheapest New Car Reveals It's So Much Better Than You Think

• [HOONIGAN] DT 012: Electric Smart Car Burnouts, Donuts and Other Bad Ideas

• I'm an electric car - The Simpsons

• WATCH: Pete Stauber Tears Into Sec. Pete Buttigieg Over EV Mandates

Episode Credits

Created by: Rollie Williams, Nicole Conlan & Ben Boult

Hosts: Rollie Williams & Nicole Conlan

Executive Producer: Ben Boult 

Producer: Gregory Haddock 

Editor: Brittany Terrell

Researchers: Carly Rizzuto, Canute Haroldson & James Crugnale

Art: Jordan Doll 

Music: Tony Domenick 

Special thanks: The Civil Liberties Defense Center

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